Another Day

At least 90 people are believed dead and tens of thousands homeless after an earthquake hit L'Aquila and other towns in central Italy, according to BBC news this morning, April 6, 2009.
The 6.3-magnitude quake struck at 0330 (0130 GMT) close to L'Aquila.
About 1,500 people were injured and many people are still missing (0600 in Salmonriver country) as rescuers search desperately for survivors trapped beneath rubble.
Three trembled in California, two offshore at 3.0- and 3.5-magnitude; and one at 2.5-magnitude thirteen miles deep about two miles from Pinnacle. Too minor to be noticed, I suspect, and certainly none of the terrible devastation seen in Italy.
An earthquake (6.0-magnitude) struck off the coast of southern Japan on Sunday, April 5, killing an elderly woman and injuring at least 400 people, damaging buildings and prompting authorities to evacuate half the residents of a tiny island near the epicenter. Labeled a temblor, the quake hit west of Kyushu Island at 10:53 am centered at an unusually shallow depth of 5.5 miles below the ocean floor, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said.
And there you have it – another day about noticeable shifts in of the skin of the small blue dot whirling about the cosmos.
Naomi Sherer