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A 8:04 ce soir, nous avons atteint les 5.6 sur l'echelle de Richter, avec epicentre carrement juste a cote de Sunnyvale (la fleche sur la carte). Plus gros score dans la region de la Bay Area depuis 1989 (avec 6.9 de magnitude). Le tremblement a eu lieu a 5.7 miles sous le sol. Papa et maman se sont regardes facon "wow, ca n'a pas l'air d'etre le frigo!"
Un tremblement de terre qui aurait pu etre beaucoup beaucoup plus ennuyeux, s'il avait dure quelques minutes de plus...

Quelques commentaires a chaud:
-"It was a good shaking but it wasn't very sharp. It was not knocking-things-off-the-counter type shaking," Sgt. Bill King from Milpitas Police Department said.
-"Our mirrors started bouncing up and down - it broke a shelf in the backroom and it broke a jar of jelly," she said. "It could have been a lot worse."
-"honey, it's not a real earthquake until you see your city burning down on national TV. That's an earthquake."
-"At first I thought it was a train," said David Eaton, who lives in the building. "But it went on way too long. And then I heard things starting to fall and I knew it wasn't the train."

Libellés : earthquake, echelle, quake, richter, Sunnyvale, tremblement de terre