Re: Earthquakes

[Ken Gilmour <ken.gilmour () gmail com>]

We had a 6.2 last year in Costa Rica... We immediately regretted where we
had placed our racks and are almost finished a project to move them to a
concrete floor (rather than that compressed cardboard stuff). Lost a lot of
hard drives that day! We regularly have quakes between the 4-5 region here.
By regularly, i mean a minimum of 5 times a year in different parts of the
country.

Interesting, the epicenter was only a few km (about 30) from the capital
city and no communications were knocked out (except within a 6 km radius of
the epicenter which was affected more by mud slides knocking things over.
Here's what it looked like... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8udXyyqUiw

On 24 March 2010 13:31, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen () mompl net> wrote:

> I saw a recent(-ish) short thread about a mag. 4 quake in the SF Bay Area.
> This
> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/36.38.-123.-121.php
> should provide with everything you need to know.
>
> I check it on a daily basis and it's been rather quiet the past week or 2
> or so. Actually I guess it's been rather quiet ever since the 1989 quake,
> but then a year or so ago I woke up in the morning from some rattling doors
> so I guess it all depends on your perspective.
>
> So far the "worst" quake ever I experienced was in the Netherlands back
> around 1988. Magn. 5.2 or something. Which is interesting considering these
> happen like once every 6 million years or thereabouts ;-)
> Actually I slept through it so I don't know if one can call it
> "experiencing".
>
> Greetings,
> Jeroen