I haven't seen anything in the news about the continuing earthquakes in China, but I hear about them through Twitter. A 6.0 is not a huge quake, but neither is it a small tremor. It's big enough that you can feel it, generally, and you'll see lights swaying and maybe a picture frame will fall over. They're still having lots of those. Take a look at ( Read more... )

According to Ynet.

The USGS site has no mention of our little quake, but I'm not insane. My daughter felt it, the dog felt it... and according to my lj Friends Page, so did gaal. I just found this article at the Jerusalem Post, too. It has an utter lack of information.

Epicenter? Magnitude? What are those?

But can't find it on the earthquake maps yet. I'm guessing that if it was centered somewhere nearby, that it was a high 4.something or a low 5.something. I heard that there was a 5.something earthquake down on the Red Sea earlier this week, but I don't see that in the map, either. If the quake was that far away, then it must have been a lot bigger ( Read more... )