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third quake in five days

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Tokyo, 2009.08.13

We were eating breakfast this morning when there was yet another earthquake. It was by far the mildest, in fact I was the only one who noticed it until I called Mari's attention to it.

I wonder if these are progressively weaker aftershocks or random warnings of something to come. Certainly, there's been a bit of worry on the 'net in the Anglo-Japanese community. We're certainly overdue for another of the big quakes that were hitting the region with fair regularity in the past.

Coming as I do from one of the most geologically-stable countries in the world (see map below) I find the whole thing a bit exciting.

Wikipedia map of earthquakes in the world

The map above is on Wikipedia, I do not own it (or have the right to repost it, for that matter).

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov