Yeah i could imagine...
And believe me, earthquakes are awful...there are like 2 types of them, one i like to call a "rolling" one, where you can hear the actuall earthquake coming from miles away, and then it just comes and gets closer and closer. I remember one time i was at the computer, and i heard a rumble, things in my room started to rattle just a little bit, so i jumped down on the ground and put my ear against the ground, and i swear to God, i could hear the rumbling deep down in the earth. It was so scary. Then the other one is the worst one, i like to call it the "jolt" it just comes with absolutley NO warning at all, and you just rock, like jolt. It doesn't even last 2 seconds. They are the worst.
The regular ones we get here usually measure here around 6.4, but the are really really deep down in the ground.