I honestly wasn't even sure what was happening. It felt like it does when the washing machine gets loaded up on one side. The house is old and on stilts, so I'm sure that makes a difference. It just kept going, and I tried to wake my husband, but he just kept sleeping. When it was over, I tried to go outside to check on the dog, but I almost fell walking to the door from the vertigo. I ended up reading online that lots of people get vertigo from earthquakes. I can't imagine what they felt in Oaxaca and then for Mexico City to get hit with an even worse one just a short time later. The earth might be telling us something!