Monday, November 12, 2012

Earthquakes

Everything along the Pacific Rim is active. Countries like Chile and Peru hold disaster exercises in case of a large earthquake and tsunami. Similarly along the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the US, earthquake drills are conducted by the Federal Emergency Agency.

6.5-Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Guatemala's Pacific Coastline   FOX - November 12, 2012
Just as Guatemala was beginning to emerge from the rumble, a 6.5-magnitude earthquake shook the country's Pacific coastline on Sunday, just four days after a major quake killed dozens and left thousands without homes in the region.

A 6-magnitude earthquake rocked the Amazon region of Ucayali in central-eastern Peru on Saturday morning   Adina News - November 11, 2012




People in the Rockaways have seen their share of tragedies in recent years.

November 12, 2001 ... two months after 9/11 ...

American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into upscale Belle Harbor.

October 29, 2012 - Hurricane Sandy destroyed a large area of the Rockaways.




November 12, 1840 - November 17, 1917

Auguste Rodin

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Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor.



Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind
which searches into nature and which there divines
the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

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