"I feel the earth move under my feet." Yesterday's earthquake in Alaska was a doozy.

Good Friday earthquake of 1964.

Courtesy of Alaska Dispatch News:

 A 6.3-magnitude earthquake that hit south of Mount Iliamna around 6:35 p.m. Tuesday rattled Alaska from Kodiak to Fairbanks, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center. 

The quake struck roughly 70 miles below the Earth’s surface across Cook Inlet from Homer, said Michael West, a seismologist at the Alaska Earthquake Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The epicenter was about 144 miles southwest of Anchorage. 

“It’s deep -- that’s important,” he said. “That means the shaking was not as strong, but spread widely.” 

Linda Hull of Clam Gulch, about 65 miles away from the earthquake’s epicenter, said she heard a very low rumble before a slow rolling motion started. That lasted for several seconds before she felt a jolt. 

“Pictures didn’t fall off the walls, but they are all crooked,” she said after the quake. Glass figurines fell off her shelves, but didn’t break. “Light fixtures were still swaying for about three minutes after the shock hit,” she said.

So let me first say that I am certainly not a neophyte when it comes to earthquakes. Having lived in Alaska my entire life I have felt more than my fair share.

However this one yesterday was really something else.

My grandmother once described the 64 earthquake as feeling like the ground had gone liquid, and that she could barely stand up. That was what yesterday's earthquake felt like to me.

The ground beneath my feet started to sway so aggressively that it even caused my office chair to roll with me in it, which was fairly disconcerting.

I currently live only about half a mile or so from where my other grandmother lived during the Good Friday earthquake, and her house developed a crack in the foundation that could never be properly repaired, so yeah yesterday's quake most definitely got my attention.

They have been predicting another huge earthquake up here for years, ever since the last one actually, but I think yesterday was the first time that I ever took that threat very seriously.

Meanwhile over the skies of Russia

More from Reuters:  

A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, sending fireballs crashing to earth which shattered windows and damaged buildings, injuring more than 500 people. 

People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt a shockwave, according to a Reuters correspondent in the industrial city 950 miles east of Moscow. 

The fireball, travelling at a speed of 19 miles per second according to Russia's space agency Roscosmos, had blazed across the horizon, leaving a long white trail in its wake which could be seen as far as 125 miles away. 

Car alarms went off, windows broke and mobile phone networks were interrupted. The Interior Ministry said the meteor explosion had caused a sonic boom. 

"I was driving to work, it was quite dark, but it suddenly became as bright as if it was day," said Viktor Prokofiev, 36, a resident of Yekaterinburg in the Urals Mountains. 

"I felt like I was blinded by headlights," he said. 

No fatalities were reported, but President Vladimir Putin, who was due to host Finance Ministry officials from the Group of 20 nations in Moscow, told Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov to help those affected.

Here is video of the event.

Some are speculating that this meteorite might have some connection to the giant asteroid that passed very closely to earth at 2:24 Eastern Time today.

And here was Neil deGrasse's response via Facebook:

And here is Professor deGrasse explaining exactly what happened on the Today show this morning.

Yeah you know I think it is a very good time to start thinking about lighting a fire under our space program, before the next, and possibly closer, asteroid does it for us.

Probably NOT the person with whom you want to discuss religion.

Wait I can go to hell for drinking? What about that whole "water into wine" thing? Dammit, Jesus is SUCH a bad influence!

You know I think I may have found our Palin troll's car.

Usually people like this try to keep the crazy on the inside.

Only driven on Sunday's. Of course it was driven OVER any atheists or Muslims standing too close to the curb.

(That's all I've got. Your turn!)

Let me introduce you to the man with the biggest set of balls on the planet!

He is quite literally right in the path of giant a tornado, and he is so worried about his wife that he maintains the calmest voice possible so that she will not get upset.

I would hope that I would be that cool and calm in a similar situation, but I am a little worried I would be too busy weeping like a little girl and wetting myself, to worry about the feelings of a wife miles away in the safety of her "not in the path of a killer tornado" house.

Almost time to tweet the twit's tragic tirade against the SOTU speech. Updated with video of interview.

Yes I will be firing up the Twitter in anticipation of a potential meltdown or at the very least another shovel full of dirt thrown on the end of Palin's political career.

You can follow me here, if you are so inclined or leave your own comments to share your take on Palin's performance.

WHAT..IN...THE..HELL..WAS...THAT!

I know that most of you are thinking "Gryphen is a genius for knowing she was going to go on a tirade."

First, thank you for recognizing my intellect.  But no, I had no idea that she was going to be so....manic.

I literally almost threw a knuckle out of joint trying to keep up on Twitter. That was an amazing performance of crazy. 

Which of course means that Bachmann is out, and Sarah has retaken the crown of the "Crazy Teabagger Queen!" Sorry Michelle you are just not batshit crazy enough to compete.

I will post my tweets momentarily.  I need a drink first. Maybe two.

So Palin us going to appear on Greta tonight and do her own rebuttal to the SOTU speech. I wonder if SHE can find the right camera?

Sarah Palin talks jobs. What will she say? Zzzzz

On the attack right away. (She came on the air working her mouth in between questions and talking so fast that only hummingbirds could make out what she was saying.)

WTF? Is right she is raging! (I swear at one point I saw foam around the mouth!)

Talk faster lady! It definitely makes you sound smarter. (Not really.)

"fluffery?" (Describing the substance of Obama's speech. Not the porn kind of "fluffery.")

Cut social security? Uh oh.

Greta lobs softball. Sarah whiffs it. (Greta tried to help, but Palin was too wired to fully process a simple question.)

Lip service. Funny you should mention that. Shailey says hi. (Totally kidding.  Shailey says "hi" to Todd, wherever he is.)

Big government is the problem? Well duh. (Sarcasm.  Did I scare you?)

Good God how much Red Bull did she drink?

Is she saying that Republicans are not usually in lockstep? Really? (The only ones usually in lockstep more than the Republicans are those guys that the Teabaggers believe Obama used to be in charge of.)

"make manifest" that is evangelical code language.

Sarah is giving a history lesson. Gather round kids. (This is where she explained that the space race destroyed the Soviet Union.  What?  You never read that in school?)

"spud-nut" moments? (How come everything Palin says sounds dirty?  Is that on purpose?)

Bristol has a job. As Palins assistant? Or a radio gig? (According to Sarah Bristol was there hiding just off camera. I can't add anything more, because everything I am thinking is mean.)

Talk faster Greta. Palin needs to respond before she explodes. (Totally NOT joking about that.)

Civil means " civility." somebody write that down! (The "stupid" hurts my brain bad!)

Attacking the media now. (Sarah viciously spit out calmly explained that the reason their is so much uncivil discourse is because of her hate speech and crosshair map the media.)

Is she done? WTF? Indeed!

Okay when this interview makes it to the web i am going to post it, because, believe me, my tweets are not even remotely descriptive enough to explain the trainwreck I just witnessed!

Update: Here is the video. I dare you to try and make sense out of what she says.



She kept saying WTF. Does SHE even know what that means? Or perhaps she is simply saying that she is a fan of this website.

Part two.