Rude Awakening!

I'm glad you didn't get a stronger earthquake later. It's odd to just get one without a follow-up. Oh, yes. I still remember mom grabbing my youngest brother and I out of our beds and carrying us outside and down into the cellar when a tornado was coming close to our house. She put us into the potato bin with blankets and told us to go back to sleep. I also remember dad holding the cellar door open so he could watch the tornado and mom screaming at him to close the door. It took dad and two of my oldest brothers to pull the door closed... That was an exciting night. I might have been 5 years old.

That was a powerful one, I hope you had no damages.

Iv experienced this last year while on vacation in the Dominican Republic

You’re lucky the earthquake was not worse. I’ve been in a few. One in San Francisco and one 6.2 in Puerto Rico.

If I was woken by an earthquake, I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep for a while either.

I'm glad you are okay though..I have never been jolted out of sleep by a scary incident.. earthquakes are scary though..we don't experience them here

I’m glad to hear the earthquake wasn’t a bad one. The time that comes to mind where I was jolted out of my sleep was a fight between my neighbors. One of them was threatening to kill the other, and had locked their partner out of the apartment. They were standing on my patio and screeching up their apartment. It was very startling.

We had aftershocks from an earthquake one time scaring us awake

Thank God it was not severe. We have experienced earthquakes but of manageable intensity. During one such earthquake in Oct 2023, we came out of our building. There were a few more worrying ones in 2005 and 2015. The 2015 was very devastating for Nepal. And we also had one in Feb 2021 when we came out when we were just about to go to sleep.

Yikes, that's so scary-I cannot imagine! So sorry you had that experience. I have been woken up with my kids being sick and things like that-never a situation like you had.

Thank goodness it wasn't worse and you are okay! Many years ago, I was in the State of Montana and late one night, I felt a tremor that lasted around 30 seconds. Other people felt it too and an actual earthquake had been recorded, but it wasn't that strong.

When I used to live in NYC I had some incidents where the floor would be moving under my feet, Strange feeling,

That does sound very unsettling but glad it wasn't a bad earthquake and no aftershocks, etc. I've been jolted out of sleep here and there but mostly due to some noise and nothing very scary.

Well, 5.6 is enough. I am glad it wasn't worse.

I can't imagine waking up to an earthquake. I would be terrified and wouldn't have slept again either.