holy crap

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That quake in Indonesia was an 8.9. I can’t even begin to imagine 8.9. I was 60 miles or so from the Northridge quake (6.7) and it scared me silly.

And then a 10 meter high wall of water arrives across the Ocean in Sri Lanka. Brr. Tsunamis frighten me. I have nightmares about them.

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[cordiloquy.livejournal.com]

God, 8.9 is unbelievable. What freaked me out last year was that the San Simeon quake was very close in magnitude (six point something) to the Bam quake in Iran a couple of weeks later, but the body counts were 2 and 30,000, respectively. I've never been so grateful for seismic retrofitting and, you know, the dumb luck of being born here...