Has Bush been playing with his 'Quake Machine' again? Ok... seriously... I'm living in a major hotbed of quakes -- Tokyo -- and I have to tell you that it's been fairly quiet these days... almost eerily so. Usually we feel a couple fair size ones a month at least (3-4 mag), I'd say, but it's been quiet except for one fairly large one (over 6) about a couple of weeks ago.
When I see all this news about quakes in other areas, I must admit, I get a little bit freaked out about living here. But it passes. Still, I know that the earth is doing some serious movement these days --- the signs are everywhere. Scary. 
But in my hometown of Van, we have a nasty fault line coming straight through, as I recall. Everyone talks about "THE BIG ONE IS COMING", and so they say the same thing here (even more so, and with good reason given the frequency of quakes here). But it seems the "Big Ones" are everywhere these days. It's hard to imagine being in an ill-prepared, poverty stricken country when one of those six or seven's hit! Man, now THOSE are really scary and they say it's the fires afterwards that take the most lives.
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posted 27 November 2005 11:14 AM
