Dominican geologist Eduardo Verdeja questions the report that quantified the depth of the epicenter of last week’s earthquake at 10 km. Verdeja studied earthquakes in Japan, where he lived for many years and bore witness in 1995 to the 7.2 quake that shook Kobe. He says the fact that the earthquake was felt in so many distant places leads him to believe it was deeper than 10km. He also says that Puerto Plata does not have hard soils, and if the measurements were as described the destruction on the ground would have been greater. He also forecast that a bigger earthquake could be coming and urged that lessons be learned from the past, with better preparations made by the authorities.