I don't have anything to add about the horrific earthquake that hasn't already been said elsewhere.
But, I've added a donation button to the right sidebar for Doctors Without Borders, an excellent non-profit group already working in Haiti when the quake hit. They are apparently operating out of makeshift clinics in the absence of functioning hospitals. Click on the button to help; other donation options are listed here.
*update* Highly Allochthonous explains the tectonics of the quake.
More like this
... according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Maybe. This seems not to be an official prediction stated my the JMA, as it does not appear on their web site, but agency director Takashi Yokata has made the statement to news agencies.
Geophysicists have
href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/whoi-m2e091008.php">issued
a warning, that the May earthquake in China has increased the
risk of a follow-up quake.
In a moment of astonishing stupidity, Italian prosecutors are taking up a case against geologists who failed to predict a somewhat severe earthquake.
Earthquakes are once again in the news, this time in Mexico. Although it is only the biggest quakes that make international headlines, we might take a minute to contemplate other quakes - the ones you'll never feel.
Thank you for adding the link to Doctors Without Borders, I just used it.
Thanks, Tim. I donated this morning, but it's hard to feel like it'll do much good considering the magnitude of the problem...
Thanks from me, too, Alex. I donated and passed the link on to many others.
Me too. Thanks.