Morning Quakes Suck

All earthquakes suck, but the magnitude 5.5, 4 of 6 on the Japan scale, shock of the morning the other day hit at 4:32 AM and I was not amused.

This graphic appeared on my phone, which must be New in recent updates as it definitely hasn't happened before. The voice is still a calm British woman, sounding a little disappointed in the situation, repeating only the word "Earthquake."

My husband's phone had a lot more to say in Japanese and all the angry alarms were going off, warning us that this might be a big one.

So we herded into the living room and turned on the TV, waiting for the news chirons to tell us if we needed to scamper up hill and inland to avoid a tsunami. By the time it was confirmed that no tsunami was coming, it was already a quarter to five, and my kid would have had to be up at 5:20 anyway to start getting ready for school. As it takes me more than ten minutes on a good day to get to sleep, I opted to stay up too and we just got an extra early start to the morning, thanks to living on the ring of fire.

There's no good time for a quake but I would prefer them.... never actually. It's just extra sucky when it steals sleep.