Broken glass and dreams; losing my marbles

- Earthquake damage -

There's been a whole lot of shakin' goin' on out here at Hobbs the past week or so, and early this morning was the worst shaker yet. Earthquakes, that is, and they're becoming the norm.

This was the first one that caused breakage. Glasses fell out of the kitchen cabinets and broke, a bunch of marbles in glass jars hit the bricks around the wood stove, and everything fell out of the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. It was an alarming way to wake up. It was followed up by a few tremors that had me yelling "dammit!".

Although this one was deemed a 4.3 magnitude by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), it did more damage here and was scarier than the 5.4 quake we had last November, because we're practically on the epicenter, the Scurry/Fisher County line.

It's time to strap the televisions to the wall and put the knick-knacks away, or just get used to cleaning up messes.There have been at least 15 quakes and tremors in the last few weeks.

Stats on recent earthquakes can be found on the USGS site, and you can report if you felt it.

Update, 6:26 p.m.: The earthquake was upgraded to a 4.7. There have been several small quakes/tremors throughout the day. It's got me feeling gun shy.