Earthquake
At 15:04 the office started shaking and the 19" monitor on a table nearby started swaying left and right like it was a pendulum! Preliminary data shows it as a magnitude 5.1 quake on our border with Austria, somewhere 70 km south-west from Klagenfurt, if I'm reading the map correctly. I wonder what the official news will be. That is a bloody big quake and quite unexpected for that region!
posted by AlesS @ 7/12/2004 03:44:00 PM
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Sweet, 5.1 huh? Well we don't quakes here in Malaysia, but sometimes some further parts of the country and Singapore feel the aftershocks from quakes in Indonesia. Meh, quakes suck
Officially it was a quake of magnitude 4.9 on the Richter scale in the north-western part of Slovenia in the area that already once was struck with a quake of a higher magnitude back in 1998. There's a lot of damage in that area, cracked walls and roofs everywhere, one house reportedly even collapsed because its damage from the last quake wasn't repaired. The European site reports it as a magnitude 5.1 quake. And they put it in Austria, although a quick peek on the supplied maps clearly puts it in Slovenia. Perhaps because they've positioned it relative to Klagenfurt, which is a city in Austria.
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