Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Second Earthquake!

Last night we had an earth tremor here -This one was bigger- it lasted about 40secs and registered 5.8 on the Reichter Scale. I'm told that that's quite strong for here, but there were no injuries reported. It was a very strange feeling, - to start with I thought it was a very large truck rumling past (the main highway is close to my house) but as it continued I realised what it was, and stood under the lintel of a doorway - which is safest. Apparently what I also should have done was open the front door - if a tremor is very strong, the shaking can make a door get stuck in its doorway and then you're locked in!. But thankfully my door was fine.

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