EARTHQUAKE

I just experienced the biggest earthquake in my life.  It was short, sharp and loud.  I was standing at the kitchen counter peeling a Kiwi fruit to put in my cereal when it happened.  I just had time to realize and react but before I dashed out the back door the smoke detector which is anchored into the ceiling gyprock with two anchors fell down onto the kitchen table.  But I was out of the house so fast I barely remember opening the back door.  Reminded me of the time I found myself in a tent with a Cotton Mouth Snake in Myrtle Beach.  To this day I do not remember unzipping the tent to get out.
We have lots of tremors here in Kalgoorlie and they are usually mine blasts but this was much stronger.  Got my heart pumping that is for sure!  Poor Catitude was looking a bit shell shocked before she disappeared under the house to hide.
Phil says he heard that a piece of the facade at the Recreation Hotel fell down and some ceiling panels at the Lionel Street IGA also fell down.  At least we don't live or work in buildings that are more than one storey here so we are likely to be able to flee danger.
Just heard that it registered 5 on the Richter scale and the epicentre was 10 miles outside of town.