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Hey, thanks for checkin' in, Leto... yep, we're all good here. I was just typing away on my laptop in the kitchen when it started, and it took me a second to figure out that it wasn't construction or some idiot neighbor drilling in the basement. I ducked under the table and watched things rattle around, though nothing broke... it was really quite anti-climactic, actually.
I think one guy broke his arm, or at least that's what they said on the evening news here. RVK is about 30 miles west of the epicenter (Selfoss), so things were apparently a bit worse around there... stuff falling off shelves, etc.
But really, considering the strength of the buildings around here, it's not a catastrophic event. When your entire country sprouted up from between two diverging continental plates, I guess you learn how to build sturdy houses. It would take a real nasty quake to shake these thick, reinforced concrete walls down! (And divergent fault lines don't get the most severe quakes, thank goodness.)
Any good earthquake stories out there? I experienced 2 in Seattle, one in high school and the other after college (Nisqually in 2001--I was driving, and it felt like my car blew out a tire, since it careened suddenly towards the side of the road!)... the Nisqually one was 6.8, probably the biggest I've felt.
Iceland is definitely one of the safest places to experience an earthquake, I'll say that much. It does seem like the news reports are exaggerating a little bit, just looking for something scary to report on... funny that Iceland only makes international news when we get an earthquake!!! (Condy Rice is scheduled to visit here tomorrow, incidentally...)
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