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This quake was 200 miles south of us, but we felt it here as a series of slow, rolling waves. Hope everyone’s okay down there.
Update: Doc reports. Power and phones are down, but no major damage or casualties.
Update 2: Spoke too soon. Reports of deaths in Paseo Robles.

[ via Joshua ] Evidence of brackish water on Mars. Not in the past, but now.
That water is probably brackish, the Wiezmann Institue’s found some varieties of bacteria that do well in such an environment.
I wonder if that’s permafrost melting under pressure as the billions of tons of rock atop it occasionaly shifts and settles.
Mars, [...]

NASA announced a recent visualization of the Chicxulub impact (65 Million Years BCE) on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. The rendering was made from radar data collected from a recent Space Shuttle flight, and shows a semi-circular area of sedementary rock, accumlated after the impact, that eroded in a such a way as to betray [...]

I leave for two days and what happens?

The room shook, but no damage. There was a 5.2 tremblor centered just outside of Gilroy.
I’m jaded, so read Cory for a reaction from someone fresh from the stable core of the North American Plate.
And from Cory’s discussion group:
Under California Law, you are not allowed to howl like a little girl unless the quake [...]

For my friends Lucy and John, the Loma Prieta quake could not have happened at a worse time: four days before their wedding.