I wonder what award they think they’re going to win? I hope the scientists don’t have an upset victory with their plan to bomb the Earth’s core.
January is really gunning to be earthquake month of the year which, while being a big accomplishment this early in the year, isn’t making people around the world very happy. It’s been a long time, but January (17th to be exact) is also home to the anniversary of the Kobe earthquake. It might make you feel old, but it’s been 15 years since that happened. Since it’s a big anniversary they had a large candle ceremony in the square in downtown Kobe. It was a low key event, but it (obviously) got lots of news coverage.
Even though Japan is much better planned for earthquakes there was lots of preventable damage that occurred during the Kobe earthquake. You would have thought that the even would have caused people to make some obvious changes (bury power lines), but unfortunately that hasn’t happened. They have made transportation routes safer, but for some reason they refuse to acknowledge the glaring defect.
For Haiti, Kobe, and everywhere else that has been hit by an earthquake in January let’s shake our tables in remembrance.
