On Feb 28, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: > I take it a bed does attenuate the effect, with its springs, the > matress and all.
In my experience lying in bed makes a small quake easier to feel. Not only are you relaxed, but the general wobbliness of the mattress can help it as it rebounds with little damping. The last quake I felt was just before Xmas. It caused a bit of damage to a town up in the North Island but I'd have missed it if I wasn't sitting down. This country is seismologically pretty active and its biggest fault line runs right through the middle of our capital city. In 1855, when they were struggling to carve a road around the hilly shoreline, a big quake struck and uplifted enough flat seabed to make it a trivial exercise. http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/NaturalHazardsAndDisasters/ HistoricEarthquakes/3/en > We had one of force four point something here, years ago, and I > literally rode it out on the bog. Quakes scare the crap out of me so I guess the bog would be the best place. But they do also fascinate me. I've visited parts of my own country where the landscape has been permanently altered by them even during the past century. You can see near-real-time seismographic traces scattered around NZ at http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/ MQZ is the closest to me. - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
