Personal Note: Hey, was that ... ?

So I just experienced my first earthquake -- a thankfully brief and nondestructive event locally. The floor underfoot rolled a bit and the cubicle warren vibrated, but it was all pretty low frequency (the DVD in my player* didn't even skip). A few heads popped up to inquire, "Did you feel that?" -- but given that the construction crew upstairs twice dropped something enormous this morning that shook the building much more violently, several of my colleagues admitted to thinking it was just more of the same before the news reports came in. I'm betting my parents will have slept through it. Hope all is well nearer the epicenter in Virginia.

*Justice League, season 2. I'm just listening to the voice work as a I catalog. No, really!

ETA: USGS predicts possible aftershocks. Just in case, I'm taking the bus home rather than the subway/elevated. An ounce of prevention ...