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catlover · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 5

Glad everything is ok Peggy - must have been pretty scary! Jane

Karen · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 8

Just glad you're safe Peggy. I have felt one in Hereford years ago but it was only a small one. I didn't know that door frames are one of the safest place to be Carol. Lets hope things get back to normal for everyone soon.
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carolan · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 52

Maybe they make the door frames stronger in Peru because it's an earthquake country, Karen!

In the centre of a room it can all come down round you; outside, buildings can be falling and the earth itself can split of course. If you think about it, when you see pictures of buildings after earthquakes or other damage, quite often the frames are left standing and stand out quite starkly in the middle of the destruction.
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Karen · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 8

That's true Carol. I hadn't thought about it before.

bestpi · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Tucson Arizona USA

Hi All,
So glad everyone is alright. Things can be reacquired but people . . .!

Carol is quite correct. An outside leading door frame Or, if you have an old porcelain steel bath tub climb in it, lay down and wait . Remember that after shocks can be higher in magnitude than the original quake, and since the follow a disruptive event that has already weakened the structure of your home of store. Look up when you leave where you are. Look above eye level more than normal. Many people died in the after shocks in California because the old building were crumbling and falling people who were frightened and ran out of the house and had pieces fall on them.

I have lived in both Alaska and California for quite some time. There are two tipes of tremor. The rolling quake which makes you almost virdigoish or dizzy. The there is the abrupt shift to one direction.

What kind would you say you all had?

#2 John US - Shaken, not stirred.

Brina · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 2

I only heard about this on the news during GMS this morning (that'll serve me right for hardly ever looking at the news while at uni) but glad you're ok Peggy. I've got a few friends here at uni who come from Kent and Folkstone areas so I'll have to speak to them and hope their families haven't suffered too much.
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Guest · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:10 pm Post subject:

Thanks Marza. We have friends near Canterbury and they felt nothing at all.

We're fine and the house is fine. Folkestone took the brunt of it it seems. In fact the revised strength was 4.3 and in fact was mid channel off Dover. The American Geological site got it wrong.

Peggy

Guest · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject: