Rumbling and Rustling

It's 4am. At 3:33am we felt a big BUMP and some jiggling: an earthquake. We wondered whether it was bigger elsewhere far away. See this map of recent earthquakes in our area - right now it shows the one we felt in red (probably not by the time you see this!), about 3 on the Richter scale, looks like, centered right here. It shows 235 earthquakes in the past week in California and Nevada. Here's the actual data for the quake: 3.4 magnitude, near Saratoga, CA. Did you know you can enter information about how you experienced earthquakes (whether you felt them or not)? The subjective information for this quake. Already by 4:09am, 93 people had responded, including 26 in Saratoga itself and 5 in Sunnyvale. I can't believe that many others were awake with us at this crazy hour.

After a while, I pulled up the shade and gazed at Orion's belt and the sliver of a moon. I heard some rustling outside - a squirrel? I guess not, since they are all diurnal except for flying squirrels (haven't seen any of those lately). Then again I'm diurnal and I'm rustling around at this moment...