My First Earthquake

Well today I experienced my first earthquake.!  I guess being a east-coaster all my life that experience had never passed my way before.  It was a few minutes after 3:00pm and a friend and I were sitting in my dining room surfing the net and talking about if we wanted to go anywhere before the afternoon was over.  All of a sudden I felt a little dizzy at the same time that she said "Do you feel anything?"   The floor was trembling underneath my bare feet in our sixth floor flat and as I visually took in the plant across the room shaking it's leaves, I answered.  "Oh yeah, the room is shaking."  

Suzy being a west-coaster was immediate on informing me that we just had a earthquake.  And my savvy response was: "That's my first earthquake!"  We immediately checked a few news websites and couldn't find anything informative.  We also each called a friend, one who was on a first floor said, no she didn't feel anything.  And the other on the eighteenth floor was quick to answer the phone with; "Did you feel the earthquake?"  

A little later on Gulf News we found out that the Iranian news agency is saying that a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit southern Iran at approximately 3:00pm.    The U.S. Geological Society is saying it was a 6.1 on the Richter scale.  Either way it was a good sized one and was felt in Dubai, Fujheri, and slightly in Abu Dhabi.  Supposedly tall towers in Dubai swayed!  Everything is built over here with Earthquakes in mind, so for those of you who are questioning, we are very safe!  Just wanted to share another of my firsts!