Earthquake!

At 4:43 this morning we were awakened to the creaking and swaying of our building. I was having a bizarre dream about Mrs. WMG drawing on my face with a marker because I was wearing a pink shirt (look it’s a dream). It only lasted a few seconds but that was long enough to send my heart racing (the earthquake, not the dream). Mrs. WMG grew up in California and so it was no big deal to her, she said that it felt like only a 4.3 and that we should just go back to sleep.

As it turns out, it was exactly a 4.3 and pretty much right underneath us on the Delhi-Haryana border. A few minutes later there was quite a commotion outside in the halls and it turns out that a number of people were evacuating the building. This seemed like a mingling opportunity not to be missed so we put on our half-sleeping half-outside outfits and ventured out to the cool dew-covered lawn. I would say only about 10% of the people in the buildings were out there, so it didn’t quite have that feeling of major emergency. After 20 minutes or so we went back in after another taste of Delhi life.