December 23, 2006

Rattled

We've just had our third short sharp shock tremor in five days, all of them centred just under Berkeley, a couple of miles up the road. It's hard to be too cavalier about them when they happen — there's no getting away from how scary the suddenness is, how thoroughly shaky the illusion of solid ground is — but you just have to keep going on about your business. There's not much you can really do to be totally safe other than move out of the area….

2 Comments:

At 1/08/2007 12:10 am, Blogger Spike said...

Scary. Didn't even hear about it down here. I think Aunty has a policy of not reporting anything under a 4 on the Richter.

 
At 1/08/2007 10:00 am, Blogger Jimmy Little said...

Well a 4 is barely anything to write home about here if you've been through a 7 :-). But this is a part of the world where so few people have been in the same place for more than five years that even a series of 4's is novel. Me, I've done the 7.1 thing and can afford to be blase :-).

 

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