RP: The Grand Finale Characters: Everyone is welcome to react please. Add your tags Time/Date: 9:15 PM, October 15. Earthquake: 6.8 (duration: 23 seconds) Location: Everywhere Warnings/Rating: none Summary: The earth shakes, rattles, and rolls Status: Complete
At roughly 9:14 PM, a crash can be heard outside. Shortly after that, the earth starts to tremor. It's slow at first, more a vibration than anything else, but it grows quickly and steadily into a full-on shaking quake. The entire building shifts and trembles. Water sloshes over the pool. There's a loud crack from somewhere within the building; perhaps its the very foundation or simply one of the supports in one of the walls. One of the 9th story windows cracks and pops out.
Things close to the edges of shelves fall. Paintings and other decorations might fall off the walls.
A couple of the deck chairs near the pool edge wind up in the pool.
Some sodas in the convenience store pop open and fizz all over. Cans fall from shelves and generally the store looks like -- get this -- an earthquake hit it. Same with the hardware store and the mall.
As the quake winds down, there are three aftershocks:
The first is roughly 30 seconds after the end of the quake, a 3.4. The second is five minutes after that, a 4.5. The third is 27 minutes later, a 3.6.