Earthquake!!

I experienced my first ever earthquake last night. I was nowhere near the epicenter, but we certainly felt a number of sustained rumbles here in Chiang Rai throughout the night and into this morning. The funny thing is, I was actually talking on the phone to my boyfriend (man I like the sound of that) when the first one hit. Somehow I felt safer even knowing that he was there to talk to on the other side of the world. The baby didn't wake up, which was great, but when I went out to check on the boys two of them were up with the other nanny and walking around... it certainly shook them out of bed. It was really quite mild, though. At first I thought maybe there was a truck rumbling by, but that didn't even make sense since we're out in the country and not near a major road. The first thing I did was open the window and listen. The rumbling was not just in the house; it was all around. Shortly after the first quake and aftershocks, I saw on Facebook that the quake was centered in Burma, just north of here. I still have yet to hear about damages. From what I heard, the first on was like a 7.0, and there was another 5.6 (ish) around 11:30. It's pretty weird to feel the earth shaking under my feet. It is disconcerting to know that the ground underneath me is really not as stable as it seems.