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| Another Quake |
| 09.06.04 (7:04 pm) [edit] |
Another earthquake woke me up at 8:30am - a 6.4, so nothing too serious, and centered off the coast once again. It really tells you something when you start getting used to them. But it is sobering to think that, according to CNN.com, `in 1995, a magnitude-7.2 quake in the western port city of Kobe killed 6,400 people.` The major one yesterday was 7.3, though it was off the coast - the Kobe one was centered pretty much right downtown. Still...makes you start to think about preparing the quickest route to the nearest department store so you can start looting if a big one hits, doesn`t it?
On top of the earthquake and tsunami warnings that have been issued, there is a crazy typhoon (number six, my friend Rachel informs me, of this season) that is, oh, just about over where I am right now. CNN.com tells me that Typhoon Soongda is one of the most powerful typhoons to hit in over 30 years. Huh. I did not know that. Also from CNN.com: `Last week, Typhoon Chaba struck Japan, killing at least nine, injuring 204, and flooding more than 19,000 homes.` I did not know that, either. I really miss being able to, you know, understand things.
Typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis...now all we need is Mount Fuji to erupt and Godzilla to start tearing apart Tokyo and I`ll really feel like an extra in a Roland-Emmerich disaster flick. I knew I should have paid more attention to Ms. Gagno, my highschool geography teacher. She was always warning us against living in dangerous areas afflicted with earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, volcanoes, and radioactively-mutated lizards. Meh.
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