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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

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

—George Bernard Shaw