Being a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my health, having been diagnosed with MS in 1990. "Satisfying my morbid curiosity and yours..."
Monday, December 8, 2008
Earthquake experienced when I was 5
I remember being profoundly affected as a child seeing a charred-out house that had burned down in my St. Louis neighborhood. I also remember my family withdrawing to the SW corner of the basement during tornado watches (conditions right) and warnings (funnel cloud spotted). But I also remember standing in a kitchen and holding onto the counter as the floor violently shook--an earthquake! I began wondering last night if the event is documented in the scientific literature, and of course it is, by the U.S. Geological Society and the Seismological Society of America. Turns out it was a pretty big quake, too: 5.5 on the Richter Scale, and occurring along the New Madrid fault. The image shows a tombstone rotated by the winds; there were injuries and damage, but no deaths. My sister, who would have been 2 years old and present at the time, will not be impressed by the event, having withstood numerous earthquakes while living in California.
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