I appreciate your concerns Ron and SRA,
I'm all right, the quake area is 80 km away and the motion awakened my wife during the night, who woke me up on her turn. It was the usual feeling of a distant, large earthquake. You feel the bed swaying, you feel the house swaying and the sounds of furniture hammering the walls, lamps on the ceiling substantially swaying as well.
My first thought was: where is it? Which would have governed my decision to leave home or stay (my fear was a close not so large quake with the possibility of the activation of a closer structure and larger acceleration). I left anyway, since my wife was scared to death. The social networks were able to pinpoint the area after half an hour, whereas the epicenter was known after more than an hour. The disaster is due to the fact that in those mountain towns and villages the main type of buildings, as you guys have seen on the news, are very old and poorly built masonry. The old, way, when the population had very little means and other materials were not available. Blocks of stone with just sand, earth, dry lime, minimal cohesion. They simply are not able to withstand a magnitude 6 earthquake.
Ron - you beat me to it . . . I've been meaning to see if McCoy is okay - and his family of course - but other events seemed to get in the way when I was near a computer.
Hi Ron, thanks for checking, the shaking here was stronger than during the previous one in August. My wife freaked out and protested that according to her I kept too calm!
Apparently, after all the events in that area, there were not many people living in the more hazardous, old buildings, so I heard about no fatalities, even though a Mw= 6.6 is not a cinch.
My renewed house behaved pretty good. But I'm going to hire a structural engineer to carry out a seismic hazard analysis with the seismic input I want to use. Not just the design earthquake.
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