[Boatanchors] Some Shaking Going On??

[Chris Trask]

>
> >
> > Prefer the shaking to be 6.0 or less however if there's a choice!!!
> >
> > You earthquake virgins will learn to ignore the small shakes...
> >
>
>     I wouldn't go making fun of this one.  Yes, it was only M5.8 but it
was
> just 6.0km deep.  The Christchurch NZ quake was in the M6's and was also
> shallow.  Shallow quakes of this magnitude can do quite a bit of damage.
>
>     It only happened about 3.5 hours ago, so it's a bit eartly to fully
> assess the damage.  I heard on the radio about a half hour ago that the
> National Cathedral in Washington was damaged, supposedly the middle spire
is
> leaning and the other two toppled.  But, no national TV network is
covering
> this at all right now.  It would interfere with the soaps and game shows.
> I'll have to wait for the 1600 local early evening news.
>

Here's the best news source I can come up with so far:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/23/139885948/5-8-magnitude-earth
quake-rattles-east-coast

Chris