Last night at 8:04pm, Alanna and I were sitting on our bed reading a bedtime story. Justin was at the edge of the bed watching us. All of a sudden, our house started to rattle, the cats scurried under the bed, Justin immediately went to the doorway, and I said, "what's going on?!" Clearly, I am not a California native! Justin explained that it was an earthquake, and then the 3 of us stood in the doorway together.

After it was over (about 30 seconds), we checked on the USGS site and discovered that the epicenter of the quake was in San Jose. It was 5.6 on the Richter scale, the biggest quake in the Bay Area since the Loma Prieta in 1989.

No worries, we're all fine. I don't think Alanna even noticed it!