While we were sleeping and America was lunching (An Earthquake)

(click on the photo to see a bigger picture of the map)

We know that this probably won't make the evening news as there was no major damage or loss of life. (But it did send thousands of local university students scrambling. Click here to read that story). So, we thought we would tell you what woke us up spot on at midnight--an earthquake measuring 4.7 (or 5.1 by some accounts) on the Richter scale. Three minutes later another hit. We had three subsequent tremors before 1:00am and then we were woken up at least 3 more times to minor tremors before my phone alarm (at 5:25am) reminded me that it was time for the start of a new day. We learned that not a one of our kids heard or felt a thing.

The whole house shook. Neither Scott nor I have ever experienced something like this before. Even though it is "winter" here, we have the screen door open in our bedroom to the outside. The sound of the quake coming and going was amazing to me. The rumble grew and grew, like a crescendo in a piece of music, and then subsided. We learned after checking the Internet that the epicentre was only about 9 miles away from our home in an area called Mae Rim (where our kids just played soccer two weeks ago).

This experience is an awesome reminder of God's incredible power and how powerless we really are when it comes to matters of this world. (Matthew 24:4-8)

If you have Google Earth installed, you can click HERE and it will fly you to the location. If not, you will need to install Google Earth first (available at http://earth.google.com).