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Earthquake - 5.36AM
Is this the reccomended way to check for a Tsunami? Walk down to the beach and look towards the ocean? :cheeky:
Sounds like it was an minor one. So hopefully no one got hurt.
i slept. what on earth do you people do at night? it's for sleeping! 
but i will admit that once in my parents block of apartments in poland there was a fire on the third floor, we were on the ground floor. we slept through fire, the arrival of fire brigade, evacuation of some of the tennants, water works - all. all four of us (parents, brother, myself). woke up in the morning to the smell of burn
but i will admit that once in my parents block of apartments in poland there was a fire on the third floor, we were on the ground floor. we slept through fire, the arrival of fire brigade, evacuation of some of the tennants, water works - all. all four of us (parents, brother, myself). woke up in the morning to the smell of burn
If we lived in California,or Japan,this would be a "non-event"!
Last time I fell out-of-bed here in Santo Domingo,it broke windows in Santiago!
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Not to side track this thread but my wife and I were talking about the quake and she mentioned that in Santiago a huge area with uneven faults was marked by the government as unstable to build. This line runs from Jacaqua down the mountain through Gurabo and under HOMS Hospital. Apparently builders who owned or bought the land removed these markers and sold solars and built there anyway as they were making lots of money. Anyone else know of this?
Was definitely strong here in Bani. Woke everyone up and is the talk of the town today.
Fortunately, it was the side-to-side shaking (lateral) rather than the inside-the-basketball shaking (horizontal) and it was over quickly. I was in Santiago when the earthquake hit Haiti: I felt both types of waves and it seemed to go on forever.
Fortunately, it was the side-to-side shaking (lateral) rather than the inside-the-basketball shaking (horizontal) and it was over quickly. I was in Santiago when the earthquake hit Haiti: I felt both types of waves and it seemed to go on forever.
Had to share this. It's an article from CNN about the earthquake here. But the article is written from a perspective that it is really all about Haiti. I'd start a new thread, but I had too much drama yesterday.
(CNN) -- An earthquake hit the Dominican Republic Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, almost exactly two years to the day after a massive quake devastated the neighboring nation of Haiti.
The 5.3 quake was centered in the south of the country, about 170 miles (270 km) east of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, the USGS said.
General Juan Manuel Mendez of the Dominican Republic Emergency Operations Center said there were no reports of damage yet, but added: "We will be checking once it is daylight."
(CNN) -- An earthquake hit the Dominican Republic Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, almost exactly two years to the day after a massive quake devastated the neighboring nation of Haiti.
The 5.3 quake was centered in the south of the country, about 170 miles (270 km) east of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, the USGS said.
General Juan Manuel Mendez of the Dominican Republic Emergency Operations Center said there were no reports of damage yet, but added: "We will be checking once it is daylight."
Reporting from Azua
The quake was epicentered about 20 miles Southeast of here. Vigorous horizontal shaking which lasted less than 10 seconds. No damage to our stone, mud and waddle, palm thatched cabin. In Azua town the new hospital (Taiwan) sprouted many cracks, the road leading from Ban?, was cut off at the path (called El N?mero).
The quake was epicentered about 20 miles Southeast of here. Vigorous horizontal shaking which lasted less than 10 seconds. No damage to our stone, mud and waddle, palm thatched cabin. In Azua town the new hospital (Taiwan) sprouted many cracks, the road leading from Ban?, was cut off at the path (called El N?mero).
