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May 30, 2008 at 12:11 am #709625
guess what!!! we had an earthquake today, the US measurements have labeled it a 6.7 richter scale, it yanked me from my work for like 20 secs and my collegue jumped up screaming (she is 61 yrs old) and she was talking to her elderly mother on the phone, but there was only one barn wall that collapsed near the origins of the quake (building regulations are very strict in Iceland), we aquired a new hot-spring and the citicents of two towns have to sleep outside in tents (now that’s new) no serious injuries on people, but my co worker had bits of worries (understandably) because she lives within 10 kilometres from the quake middle
May 30, 2008 at 12:11 am #495630May 30, 2008 at 12:15 am #709626I hope there were not casualties… 😯
May 30, 2008 at 12:30 am #709627err.. no
earthquakes in iceland are different from most earthquakes since the “rafts” or “continents” are descending, not colliding so you could say that they are not as violent here as in most other countries, as I said there was a barn wall that collapsed to underline that earthquakes are not that bad (although they are not good at all) here, just to ease the worrying I shall say that if there were casualties, they would be from a heart attack
but there was a near miss though, a book cabinet fell on a pile of toys a child had just been playing with, luckily he had to go to the bathroom, and his little brother was sleeping in his stroller
May 30, 2008 at 12:48 am #709628Earthquakes are scary no matter where you live!!! 😯
May 30, 2008 at 1:06 am #709629I’m glad eveyone is OK
May 30, 2008 at 1:07 am #709630Thats cool. I havent been in an Earthquake in a good long while. It must be nice to not have to worry about them as much.
May 30, 2008 at 1:36 am #709631I’m glad to hear nobody got hurt. I have never been near an earthquake but we have hurricanes here that worry everybody.
May 30, 2008 at 1:43 am #709632I’m glad everyone is okay and that there is only property damage.
May 30, 2008 at 1:47 am #709633Glad everyone is safe and sound. I bet that bookcase gets anchored to the wall in the near future.
Kyrin
May 30, 2008 at 4:52 am #709634http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7426369.stm
it looks a little more serious in this article
May 30, 2008 at 12:26 pm #709635Whew! Good thing no one got hurt 😯
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmMay 30, 2008 at 10:40 pm #709636well yeah, no one was seriously hurt, only minor injuries, and alot of houses are seriously f***ed up, some pavements have moved and such strange things, kids were thrown out of a hot tub (thank goodness their bumpers were the only things that were bruised) if you guys want I can send some links and translate, and we even have new (clay)hot springs
June 1, 2008 at 9:17 pm #709637June 1, 2008 at 9:51 pm #709638earthquakes have got to be the scariest thing ever to happen. I mean think about it…the ground is the one thing that is not supposed to move….but in earthquakes it does. horrifying.
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