My First Earthquake!

For the first time in my life, I experienced an earthquake a few weeks ago while standing in my basement. I was actually playing bass at the time, working on a pentatonic scale exercise that had been eluding me. I was jamming along, feeling like I finally got it and was really smoking it and then the whole house started to shake like it was just hit by an airplane. For an instant, I thought “Man, I’m really jamming” and I was stoked. Literally a half second later it occurred to me that something very strange was happening and I’d better do something about it.

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