Indiana Jones and the Tremors of San Salvador

Written by Kyle about El Salvador. Feelin' scared
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Indiana Jones is descending into a dark tomb where scary music is playing and there are scorpions running about.  All of a sudden the theater starts to shake a bit back and forth.  Is this a new special effect?  Is it like one of those Disneyland rides that is both a ride and a movie at once?  No, this is San Salvador, a city surrounded by volcanoes where occasionally the ground moves without notice and that was a little tremor.

For those of you who have not experienced something like this, it is quite weird.  It's kind of like when you step off of a moving walkway onto non-moving ground; everything around you looks like it isn't going anywhere, but you feel like you are moving.  I must admit that it is a little nerve-wracking, too, as it comes on without any warning and there's really nothing you can do about it.  Especially given what has happened in China recently I would prefer my ground to be closer to the static end than the moving end.

After the ground stopped moving, looking around the theater, though, no one seemed to really mind too much.  In fact, they all thought it was amusing that it happened at such an appropriate time in the movie.  For me, however, it took me 10 minutes to get back into the movie and not worry about those things that I can't control.  Because even though it shook me up a bit (no pun intended), it would really suck to be worrying about earthquakes when Indiana Jones is kicking some commie ass.  


Follow Up:
For all of you seismic buffs out there, here is a link to the 4.4 Magintude earthquake that happened: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008smac.php

Here is the location:
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