Quake in Lima

Today I was in my first earthquake, just 2 hours ago in the "gringo house" in Lima. The BBC says it was a 7.5 on the Richter.
Even more amazing, the phone company finally connected the internet in the gringo house!
But back to the quake.
It was strange but not at all scary. The house suddenly started shaking & the little wooden statue of an Incan playing a flute fell to the floor. The ground in the little square in front of the house undulated ever so slightly. The local people, or at least some of them, started panicking and one of them, a little old lady, clutched Gwen's arm and started speaking Spanish at a pace that would put the micro-machine commercial guy to shame.
A half hour or so later was an after-shock, and that was less strange because it was expected.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6948888.stm
Anyhow, I'll try to fill out the story later, but for now I am heading out to drink Pisco (the local liquor, somewhere between sake & whisky) in the farewell party for a fellow gringo medical student.