Earthquake!!!!

Upon arriving home from school today, I did what I normally do and gorged myself on Guadalupe's amazing food.  Just as I was starting to clean up, I hear the shells in the kitchen start rattling.  Odd.  The door was closed so no wind could get in.  

Just as I am trying to make sense of the shells, I feel the whole building swaying.  The tall lamp in the parlor and objects on the furniture were rocking side to side.  Worst of all?  I could actually see the floor tilting.  Tilting!  Ummmmm....I'm on the twentieth floor.  If the building collapses, both Bella and I are dead.  

I took a peek at the ground and noticed all the construction workers running out of the building they're working on and several other people hanging out by the streets.  I tried calling the portero, but alas, there was no signal.  The swaying had eased up a bit at this point, so I decided to wait it out and pray that the building would remain standing.  It worked!  

It ends up that there was a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in the center of the country, and Cartagena was just feeling the tremors.  With as freaked out as I was with those, I feel horribly for the poor souls that experience the full power of one.

The construction crews waited a full thirty minutes before shuffling back into the building site.