Madame Mimi's Psychic Intuition

HOLY COW! I was wondering why I decided to write a post on the seismic activity here and apparently Mother Nature decided to prove me right! If you read the caption to the right, you will see that the earthquake we had at around 7 this morning, waking me from my deep deep slumber, was a magnitude 6.1! That means lots of exclamation points in this post apparently.

Luckily nothing happened. No power outages like last time for the little one we had. Silly WAPA. WAPA is our power company. We are really dated and need a new one (if anyone reading this works for a power/energy supplier, please move here). That is an aside however. I am just laughing that I couldn't figure out why I was writing my post yesterday, but it comes in handy now!

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I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet...

...and NO... it's not because I live near a train. St. Thomas is actually very earthquake happy. We have them here very frequently so they are all really small. Occasionally they get big enough to feel. A few weeks ago we had a little guy, but I felt it quite easily. It surprised me and Floyd had her tail between her legs. It was only a 2.7 magnitude quake, but being on top of a mountain makes it feel a bit bigger, I guess. I know I have been through bigger (according to news) but had no idea because I was at sea level. We have earthquakes here because we are on the edge of the very tiny Caribbean Plate. There are still some people who don't believe in tectonics, but regardless, there is movement from all the plates around us and we have earthquakes and volcanoes in this part of the world.

We are being pushed around by the (MUCH LARGER) North American Plate, South American Plate, Nazca Plate, and Cocos Plate. You can see the believed plates on the image at right.

I am not really sure why I started talking about this, but Maybe it is because the neighborhood dogs all started howling then got quiet, like the last earthquake... except Floyd. She doesn't make noise. Maybe when I remember where I was going with this, I will come back and add to it. *sheesh*

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