Another quake

There was another earthquake in Sezhuan yesterday, 6 on the Richter scale. I was outside, sitting on a stone platform, which I could feel moving beneath me. This one wasn't as strong as two weeks ago, but seemed to last longer. Soon after the streets were once again full of wary people. Some probably camped out overnight again. One earthquake is one thing, but when you get half a dozen of magnitude 6 or more, you start to wonder what's going on and where it will end.

I have two 'early warning systems' in my apartment: a bottle standing upside down on the floor and a weight hanging from a thread on a door jamb. Anyway, the building we are in is pretty stable. I reckon we'd have to have a big quake right in Xi'an for much to happen here. The last big earthquake here was in 1556, and current events still seem to be centered on Sezhuan.