Tracy, good luck and I am glad everyone seems to be ok. I have been reading on the net the first reports. That is a pretty big quake isnt it? Mike Farmer
--- tracy latimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WE got jolted out of bed this morning at 7:08 by > what they are now reporting > as a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, about 18 miles from > Kailua-Kona on the Big > Island. There was another quake about 7 minutes > afterwards, about 5.8, and > 18 or so aftershocks so far, mostly too small for us > to feel here. > > Some things fell off of shelves here in Maui > (Kihei), minor structural > damage in some places, and there are landslides on > some roads. Big Island, > closer to the epicenter has sinkholes, landslides, > and they are reporting > that a couple of the big box stores had ceiling > collapses. We were prepared > to bug out if a tsunami was forecast, but none > resulted. We were without > power until about 10 minutes ago while the electric > companies reset and > tested all the breakers that had flipped; most of > the Hawaiian Islands had > no power for at least a while. We blew at least one > UPS at home, and are > testing our computers. Reports are still coming in > about damage across the > islands. Only minor injuries have been reported. > > WE can report largely shaken, but not stirred, and I > am going to go make our > first batch of caffeine for the day -- we need it! > > Tracy Latimer > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
