Sitting through a simulated earthquake

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The photo shows two dogs that we saw recently in Cunderdin. While we were there, we went to the museum and, from there we went into a lounge room in a stand-alone house. The TV and lounge chairs were bolted to the floor. We took our seats and a video began on the TV explaining the earthquake which had hit Meckering in 1968. Other nearby towns were also affected, some worse than others. The video warned us that the house was about to start shaking, which it did. Pictures on the wall were rocking as were our chairs and the TV. The shaking went on for about 40 seconds which was how long the earthquake took to destroy Meckering. Almost the whole town was destroyed. The video then mentioned aftershocks and the house started shaking again which gave me a real fright. I was expecting the first shaking as we’d been there a few years previously but I’d forgotten about the ‘aftershocks’. The only thing that spoilt the experience a bit was the creaking and groaning of the mechanism that caused the shaking. They need to get under the house with an oilcan. When the actualy earthquake happened, I was on our farm hundreds of miles away. The cups in the dresser started rattling. I had no idea what was going on. It was one of those times when you always remember where you were.