QUAKE NEWS
The U.S. Geological Survey has a nice page with details of this morning's 5.1 temblor. There's also a page with just New York quake info. They're not quite as much fun as the California pages, but I guess that's to be expected.

Several years ago, my cousin was visiting LA from Slovenia and I took him to Universal Studios. As the tram pulled out of the simulated earthquake ride, you could pick out the Californians. We were the ones instinctively estimating the magnitude of the quake. My cousin thought we were nuts until a few seconds later when the tour guide told us the precise magnitude of the simulated quake - and we were all within a fraction of the Richter number.

You may want to check out the web site of Jim Berkland, who predicted the 1989 Loma Prieta Quake that hit during the World Series. I later worked for the paper, the Gilroy Dispatch, that carried Berkland's prediction of a "World Series Quake" five days before it happened. I interviewed him several years later, and given his track record, it's hard to dismiss his theories even though his methods include a tracking of newspaper ads about lost pets.
- posted by Amy @ 4/20/2002 01:21:00 PM