The days the Earth stood still

Let’s see: that would be January 11 and January 14, ¿qué no?

The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 M_w earthquake. Its epicentre was near Léogâne, approximately 25km (16 miles) west of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The earthquake occurred at 16:53:10 local time (21:53:10 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010, at a depth of 13km (8.1 miles).

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The United States Geological Survey recorded six aftershocks in the two hours after the main earthquake of magnitudes approximately 5.9, 5.5, 5.1, 4.5, and 4.5. Within the first nine hours 26 aftershocks of magnitude 4.2 or greater were recorded, with twelve of them magnitude 5.0 or greater.

– Wikipedia [wherein further references are accredited]

Haiti is one of the poorest places in the world. It still shakes. Shake it:

• Partners in Health
• Concern Worldwide

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I can see for miles

I can see right through it. Copenhagen: the Climate Change Summit. We can’t agree on transparency.

Of course! How could we? Hard to see through the smog.

Oh well, perhaps, the rich nations will agree, out of the goodness of their hearts, to buy their ways out of this calamity. As I saw on one earth-friendly website: Wanna go green, but just don’t have time? Here’s some worthy green causes to which you can contribute good green dollars! Buy yer way out.

But, then, the President can only propose, not dispose, so who knows?

Fortunately, iceberg B17B is expected is expected to completely dissipate from its first-seen 8km by 19km size, before reaching Australia. Lots of melting water.

Eerie that while some nations are threatened with drowning out of existence, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water.

So, as we proceed through this year-end season of extra lighting and extra papering (both for the good of the climate, of course), we can see for miles. For our own hot air is not quite smog.

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