An earthquake registering 7.9 on the Richter scale struck China, with great loss of life. See China quake death toll rises to nearly 10,000.
My daughters just went through a minor earthquake in St. Louis, no less. And my wife–who fears going to California because of its earthquakes (though she herself thinks nothing of Oklahoma tornadoes)–felt a small one the other day in Alexandria, Virginia.
It’s frightening when one’s very ground proves unstable.
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