Earthquake!

11:43pm
I don't think any of you will even have heard about our recent earthquake. We were online at the time so we wrote a note to a few people telling them we were okay incase they heard about it. But it only made a back page of CNN with list of earthquakes in the last week. It was a 5.9 which shook our house for about 30 seconds. Just long enough to get to the doorway and look onto our street before it stopped. All the neighbors were out in their doorways. A few car alarms went off and all the dogs in the city barked but we didn't have any damage and I don't know of anyone else who did either. The unique thing about this earthquake was that we were almost directly over the epicenter which was 10 miles North of us. We found the coordinates of the quake on google maps. 3.882°S, 79.171°W which is near a town called Jimbilla.
An Ecuadorian friend said that normally earthquakes feel like waves passing under you but this one felt like circular motion instead. I wonder if that is because we were so close to being on top of it. Another missionary said that this wasn't the longest earthquake he has felt here but that it was the strongest. May God protect us. Praise God that no one was hurt.
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