Minor Earthquake in Kent

----- Original Message ----- From: "dwight elvey" <dkelvey at hotmail.com> To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 11:13 PM Subject: Re: Minor Earthquake in Kent I slept through a 4.1 once, and I've never actually felt a quake (that I recognized as such). Given how buildings are constructed in southeast England, though, a 4.7 would be pretty noticeable. All the buildings that wee built that way in California have been destroyed by earthquakes already, or extensively retrofitted so that masonry won't collapse. The quake in Bam, Iran in 2005 killed thousands (perhaps tens of thousands) but it was weaker than the Loma Prieta and Northridge quakes in California a few years ago, and those quakes only killed a few dozen people each. Not to belittle the death tolls, but the building techniques in California are much better than they are in other seismically active regions. I bet if you had a 4.7 in Missouri or Arkansas there'd be a lot of damage, and the scary thing is that the largest quakes in continental US history occurred there (read up on the New Madrid fault). Jim