It's cold and I have a lot of rather uninviting chores impatiently awaiting my attention...so here I am typing this....could I possibly be avoiding them ? at least temporarily?
What's been going on here lately ..well a Week ago yesterday (Sunday) we were woken at 1.30 am by the Earth moving ....but not in an exciting sexy way mind ...just an exciting ..am I going to be scary next ..kind of way.
A 7.1 Earth Quake on the other side of the inlet from us ...it was a longer quake than I've felt before... usually you feel something and then we turn to each other and ask "Was that an Earth quake" ? or you darn well know it was and you hop around nervously ...I tend to shake even if I don't believe myself to be stressed( my limbs obviously disagree) This time we sat up in bed and had time to decide if perhaps we should do anything about it ..."ermmm...it's still moving ..." so we all gathered in the living room on the sofa an chatted ...ok nervously(while trembling in mine and younger D's case) ...the cats and dog were not partial. We were so well awake by this time it was an hour and a half before we went back to bed . Other people had noticed and facebook had lit up with comments and questions. It was felt in different ways and strengths in different areas ...often depending on the ground structure beneath your home.
Fortunately no one was killed and damage was very limited ...the worst being 4 houses destroyed in Kenai due to explosions of a ruptured gas line (one family were in the house for the first explosion but emerged unscathed ...but lost the house in a subsequent fire) another blew up later whilst workers were looking for leaks ..thankfully no one was in that one at the time.
local news report
another
The 1964 Earthquake that struck here was over a 1,000 times stronger and much much longer ..so would have been very scary (massive understatement.)
Reading articles about earthquakes ..popular local topic of conversation this week ..there are areas in this city that have been built upon that I believe would have best been left empty.
I know our home was built just before the '64 quake and survived it and that gives me a lot of (hopefully sound) comfort.
We also discuss the geology of the area ..there are interesting maps available and study where the safest spots to head to are if the earth does move vigorously. It's always shifting just to various degrees.
Today's chart
What's been going on here lately ..well a Week ago yesterday (Sunday) we were woken at 1.30 am by the Earth moving ....but not in an exciting sexy way mind ...just an exciting ..am I going to be scary next ..kind of way.
A 7.1 Earth Quake on the other side of the inlet from us ...it was a longer quake than I've felt before... usually you feel something and then we turn to each other and ask "Was that an Earth quake" ? or you darn well know it was and you hop around nervously ...I tend to shake even if I don't believe myself to be stressed( my limbs obviously disagree) This time we sat up in bed and had time to decide if perhaps we should do anything about it ..."ermmm...it's still moving ..." so we all gathered in the living room on the sofa an chatted ...ok nervously(while trembling in mine and younger D's case) ...the cats and dog were not partial. We were so well awake by this time it was an hour and a half before we went back to bed . Other people had noticed and facebook had lit up with comments and questions. It was felt in different ways and strengths in different areas ...often depending on the ground structure beneath your home.
Fortunately no one was killed and damage was very limited ...the worst being 4 houses destroyed in Kenai due to explosions of a ruptured gas line (one family were in the house for the first explosion but emerged unscathed ...but lost the house in a subsequent fire) another blew up later whilst workers were looking for leaks ..thankfully no one was in that one at the time.
local news report
another
The 1964 Earthquake that struck here was over a 1,000 times stronger and much much longer ..so would have been very scary (massive understatement.)
Reading articles about earthquakes ..popular local topic of conversation this week ..there are areas in this city that have been built upon that I believe would have best been left empty.
I know our home was built just before the '64 quake and survived it and that gives me a lot of (hopefully sound) comfort.
We also discuss the geology of the area ..there are interesting maps available and study where the safest spots to head to are if the earth does move vigorously. It's always shifting just to various degrees.
Today's chart
Must go and sort out my Earth quake kit ...perhaps that should go to the top of the chore list !
Oh and when we finally went back to bed the bed ended up being rather crowded with the addition of youngest daughter, two of the cats and the dog crowded in too. (Although the dog had a very disturbed night as he kept getting accidentally nudged and falling off ...only to leap right back on.)
So an exciting start to the week.
