On Jul 22, 2013, at 5:19 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
> Heard about it on NPR news (Sunday noon EDT) & was going to post a query > whether y'all were doing alright. Good to hear you're hanging in there. Hope > it will go away again without too much heartbreak. We'll wait and see I suppose. A lot of frayed nerves up there by the sound of it. I certainly wouldn't be sleeping! > NPR said it was "swarm" - this was either the 5th earthquake in a week with > greater than magnitude 4.0 or that there have been 5 greater than 4.0 before > this one. The story said it had broken water mains/sewers & other "minor" > damage, but no reported casualties. That's a pretty good summary. They've shut down the rail network to check it and have closed a couple of streets due to minor building damage (broken glass etc). I think it'll be mostly back to normal tomorrow after everything's been checked out. > Oh, and the scientists don't know why you're getting a swarm now, which I > took to mean they don't know whether this is a precursor of something to come > or more aftereffects from the last one. They tend to be careful in what they say but yes they can never really make predictions on any individual event. One thing they mentioned is that there are a lot of active faults in that area so it's possible that this could trigger another one of those. The latest is that they've given a 10% chance of another 6+ in the next 24 hours. Cheers, 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.
