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Thursday, July 16, 2009

News from home

Fortunately, it appears that nobody was injured in today's large earthquake, which measured 7.8 on the Richter scale. The epicentre was some distance from population centres, but I suspect that almost everyone in the South Island felt this one.

4 Comments:

Blogger Kea said...

Of course, wikipedia already has it on the the list ... faster than the news.

July 16, 2009 6:05 AM  
Blogger nige said...

I wouldn't have liked to have been mountain climbing there when that happened!

July 16, 2009 7:51 PM  
Blogger Kea said...

As someone who was near the epicentre said, they were 'shaken but not stirred.'

July 16, 2009 8:21 PM  
Blogger L. Riofrio said...

Perhaps we'll someday see earthquakes as rumblings of a tiny Black Hole beneath our feet.

July 17, 2009 1:07 AM  

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