earthquake rocks!!

This afternoon, a rather strong earthquake of magnitude 5.4 hit east of Los Angeles county. Well, today's earthquake was one of the big ones I actually experienced, and for a little while, I thought the Northridge earthquake from '94 will be realized in front of my eyes, but well, it wasn't all that strong.

Personally, today's earthquake actually happened in right moment to remind me Robert Altman's movie Shortcuts. The movie includes 9 different group of people, who are going that are going through different sorts of conflicts which are somewhat connected or not. Almost at the end of the movie though, the conflict kind of magnified through a earthquake scene, which makes people somewhat look back and reunite. Well, events like earthquake is regional, that some people who are not living in rather stable plate will never experience it in their life, and also the based upon intensity, it can just end up as a happening, or disaster. Without knowing the origin of it, and magnitude, during that short moment of shaking, yeah, personally I went through the experience of life and death, disaster and aftermath. But after all that, when things calmed down, yeah - it was kind of liberating.