The Big One

Posted on April 27, 2008 by tinyheroes

I posted a week ago about the oh-600-or-so smallish earthquakes rumbling off the Oregon Coast. Now here’s an article telling me that an earthquake slated to register 9.0 on the richter scale is a-comin’. Makes me think I should really look into getting that home-owner’s insurance we’ve been putting off.

BTW - that’s bigger than the [...]

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The Earth Moves

Posted on April 16, 2008 by tinyheroes

And several HUNDRED earthquakes “swarm” on the Oregon Coast in the last 10 days - just a skip-hop-jump away from Newport, Oregon.

Trust me - it happened!
The troubling thing about this article - to me - are the use of the keywords “unusual” and “swarm.” Swarm makes me think of bees or…locusts…or something very alive and [...]

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