Our Shaking Earth

I almost posted this this morning but decided to wait. Why? Because I kept thinking that there was going to be a big one today and I wanted it in the list. Really. Truly. I swear this is the truth. All day today while Mel and I were out exploring northwestern Washington on a "day off", I keep waiting for it to happen. I mentioned earthquakes several times to Mel - the fact that in some of the areas we were in I was quite nervous that if a quake did happen, we would be in trouble. Since we didn't have the radio on, I didn't find out about the one that did happen until just about half an hour ago.

My heart aches for the people of Haiti. I haven't seen the news yet on television, just saw the list (22 quakes after the 7.0 so far are listed, and only one of those is under 4.0. Oh my!).

So, here is the list since last Wednesday: 235 earthquakes on the map

1/9 - 6.2 - 05:51:30 - SOLOMON ISLANDS

1/10 - 6.5 - 00:27:39 - OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
- - followed by 32 aftershocks

1/12 - 7.0 - 21:53:10 - HAITI REGION
- - followed by 22 aftershocks as of the time of this post


30 - Puerto Rico/Puerto Rico Region -(Thirty)
7 - Baja California/Gulf of California
1 - Mexico
1 - Hawaii
1 - Off the coast of Oregon
2 - Utah
1 - Washington (a little one way south of where we are now)
1 - Western Montana
1 - Oklahoma
Plus many 2.5 and above in all parts of California and Alaska, as well as many over 4.5 and above from all over the world.