I was never expecting to experience an earthquake... until now. I was in the tub when it was suddenly shaken. My mom phoned everyone. It turned out that there was an earthquake in the center. The actual concern is in a neighboring town.
I need to fly away from that jerry-built apartment...

Also wondering where you live?  I've had very little experience with earthquakes.  The strongest I've felt was 5.0 on Richter scale in St.Lawrence County, NY, autumn of 1983.  I was living < 3 miles from the epicenter.  It shook me awake at about 5:30 am when an oil lamp crashed to the floor from a narrow windowsill.  I thought a milk-truck had flown off rt. 184 on the unbanked curve and hit the side of the house!  I ran outside in my nightclothes and saw nothing until I looked across the road and saw the neighbor's horses galloping wildly around the field.  Interestingly, the neighbors were in the barn milking and noticed that the cows had gone simultaneously bonkers about ten minutes before the quake struck, trying to tear out of their stanchions, and kicking.  Their hound refused his food and would not enter the house.  I've felt some much milder quakes also in St. Lawrence Co. and in neighboring Lewis Co.  In 2000, there was a quake of about 2.0 in Manhattan.  I didn't feel anything, but I returned home to a floor-to-ceiling crack of a half-inch in the plaster wall of my bedroom.  It's there to this day, but covered up with painted-over duct-tape!  A few of my work colleagues felt it.