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Yes, the 'sidewaysness', that's it. We had a lurch or shake here in the English East Midlands a few years ago: it threw loose things off roofs and broke the ranks of traffic cones and so forth, however, if you live in a 15 storey block of flats, as I do, and at 1 o'clock in the morning it suddenly moves from one side to another like a tube train, it has a certain magnitude of statement, whatever Mr Richter might say. On 20 June 2012 00:58, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > less quake than rattle > seismic stomach lurches > > put down to clothes dryer > now confirmed to be > > Moe-centred subterranean > lurchings. > > it was the sidewaysness > that unnerved. > > the fast talk that followed > soon returned equilibrium. > > Bill Wootton > -- David Joseph Bircumshaw "We are shallow, mababaw ang kaligayahan." -* F. Sionil José* Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/