a 5.8 in virginny and d.c. --- but we didn't feel it in atlanner --- at least i didn't --- some people say they did, but . . . .
charleston, august 1886, maybe as big as a 7.3, knocked down chimneys in atlanner --- that was a real earthquake ---
or the new madrid quakes in 1811-1813, which might have been an 8.0 or higher --- either way, i'm not sure that my reinforced cement building is necessarily the place to be should we experience terrestrial instability
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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
john northbrooke, c. 1570
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