I woke up at six o'clock this morning and turned on the radio as usual. I was surprised and got up out of bed at the news that another great earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia!
Alas! It's only three months since they had such a great earthquake and destructive tsunamis, killer waves, caused by the earthquake. People there haven't got over the shock yet. Many of the sufferers have neither homes to live in nor enough food to eat. They are at a loss how to live. Again this morning another 'great' earthquake shook them.
It is reported that on Nias Island more than 300 people died and hundreds more were injured. The quake is considered a 'great' earthquake, the largest of seven grades. The grades are very minor, minor, light, moderate, strong and great.
I can't find any words to comfort them. All I can do is to donate a certain sum of money from my private purse.
The 1857 Fort Tejon Earthquake: A Poem
How awful is the thought of the wonders
under ground
Of the mystic changes wrought in the silent,
dark profound
-from the Santa Barbara Gazette, January 22, 1857
Alas! It's only three months since they had such a great earthquake and destructive tsunamis, killer waves, caused by the earthquake. People there haven't got over the shock yet. Many of the sufferers have neither homes to live in nor enough food to eat. They are at a loss how to live. Again this morning another 'great' earthquake shook them.
It is reported that on Nias Island more than 300 people died and hundreds more were injured. The quake is considered a 'great' earthquake, the largest of seven grades. The grades are very minor, minor, light, moderate, strong and great.
I can't find any words to comfort them. All I can do is to donate a certain sum of money from my private purse.
The 1857 Fort Tejon Earthquake: A Poem
How awful is the thought of the wonders
under ground
Of the mystic changes wrought in the silent,
dark profound
-from the Santa Barbara Gazette, January 22, 1857