This is ho-hum for the west coast folks, but big news in these parts. Estimated 4.9 earthquake with epicenter in Mentone, Alabama. About 20 miles west from my house. Five o'clock this morning, my wife starts frantically shaking me awake; she's scared to death! "What the he!! is that?" I only woke up to enjoy the "finale' ", which felt like a sonic boom, or a long rolling and very powerful thunderclap. Pretty amazing, really! It was my first.
I might have this wrong, but I think I heard they estimate about fourty million dollars worth of improvements to Alabama as a result, and the Governer's Mansion was shaken completely off it's wheels.
Ed