Apr
18
Pre-Dawn Surprise
Filed Under General on Friday, April 18th 2008

Building falling! great cracks in the Earth! Fire in the sky!

Not really, but it was an interesting morning when a 5.2 Richter earthquake woke us at 4:40 am. I have to admit, that even though I lived for 10 years in California and a veteran of a bunch of earthquakes, this one was fairly notable. Even though the epicenter was over 150 miles away it was not only pretty strong but I was even able to estimate that it was “probably a five-oh” to my wife, herself a veteran of a year in Japan and the ring-of-fire. Compare this to the 7.1 Loma Prieta Earthquake that rocked Northern California 1989. I was away at college at the time, right around 200 miles from the epicenter and was completely unaware of the event until someone told me about it.

Apparently it has something to do with the soil and bedrock of the two regions, but it does lend credence to the historical reports that the 1812 New Madrid Earthquake which was estimated at 8.0 and supposedly rang church bells in Boston, a claim that I long thought was only hyperbole.

It has started some chatter in the music blog world, including being the inspiration for Scott Spielberg’s weekly FriPod.

And as I am typing we are having an aftershock. I’d better quit while I’m ahead.

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