Good morning.
It’s a partly sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of forty-one degrees.
There’s a Common Council meeting tonight, at 6:30 p.m. The agenda is available online.
Over at Science News, there’s a story with good news, of a sort: Daniel Strain reports that Major Earth Quakes [are] Not Linked. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey conclude that
Big earthquakes like the Sendai quake that devastated Japan in March don’t cause similar disasters on the other side of the globe, a new study suggests.
Like ranks of falling dominoes, tremors on the scale of the Sendai quake can trigger other earthquakes, say geophysicists at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif. But, based on analyses of about 30 years of seismic data, those shocks are all very small or sit close to the original fault break, the group reports online March 27 in Nature Geoscience.
“If California is ready to go, it’s because California is ready to go,” says Jian Lin, a geophysicist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts. “Not because an earthquake in California would be triggered by Japan.”
Good news, of a particular and limited kind.