During a Dec. 13 concert in Auckland, New Zealand, Dave Grohl and his band literally shook the earth.
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Catastrophic quakes can (and do) happen in the U.S. — and not just on the West Coast.
Located in one of the world’s most active areas for earthquakes and volcanoes, Indonesia endured two days of environmental disaster after a powerful earthquake, a tsunami and an erupting volcano struck in separate regions of the Indonesian archipelago on Monday and Tuesday, killing hundreds and displacing thousands, reports the New York Times.
Uncommon but far from rare, the Sooner State woke up this morning to its second-largest case of ground grief in history.
“It was like a freight train running through the house,” – CHRIS MONROE, Operations Manager for the New Zealand Fire Service, on Friday’s massive earthquake that struck the country (Via CNN)
That shaking DC residents felt today wasn’t the ground-breaking passage of the financial reform bill: it was actually an earthquake!
Almost two dozen earthquakes hit southern California late Monday night – all apparently lingering side effects of the 7.2 Mexicali quake that struck April 4.
