Aftershocks
I have subscribed to the U.S. Geological Survey quake alert for the last five years or so. Last night's quake was -- thankfully -- a once in a lifetime event.
What brings this home is the number of aftershocks:
And these are in the 5.5 to 6.9 range. By themselves, able to cause damage. Coming as an aftershock, insult to injury. And this is just a fraction -- I have 102 emails in this directory and about eighty quake announcements. Starting to see some in Papua and Tonga as well -- "only" 5.5 - 5.7 thank God...
Posted by DaveH at March 11, 2011 9:56 PM