<div class="gmail_quote">2011/9/9 Jay Vaughan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jayv@synth.net">jayv@synth.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> But yeah, it's scary if you're not used to it. And if you *are* used to it, it's even scarier, given Jay's reaction to my message back then.<br>
<br>
</div>I don't remember what that was, remind me ..<br></blockquote><div><br>There was a 4.5 to 5.0 tremor in Malta some 5 to 7 years ago, and if I remember correctly, the first thing I did was send an e-mail to the Music Bar with 'WTF?' as the subject line. You, um, kinda suggested in no uncertain terms that I should prepare a survival kit and such. I think the memories of California were still a bit raw at the time.<br>
<br>There was a pretty bad earthquake in this area in 1693:<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1693_Sicily_earthquake">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1693_Sicily_earthquake</a><br><br>But all in all, even though we're at the very edge of the African tectonic plate, which is slowly moving underneath the Eurasian plate (but the crust itself is moving over it), and despite a whole swathe of volcanoes and fault lines a more 100 km to the north, there's little seismic activity here. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is, of course, a different issue altogether.<br>
<br>- Peter<br></div></div><br>