Thanks Sharon, certainly can remember 1969's 'quake. Impossible to begin to understand or appreciate the stunning demolition of land & life in Asia. Kind regards Coral Anna -----Original Message----- From: Sharon Warr [mailto:snw@absamail.co.za] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:16 PM To: SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] Historical Earthquakes in South Africa Good Day All Following the disaster in South East Asia, and wanting to follow what was happening on-line, I came across this link (amongst others) on the BBC News website. It is an interesting list of earthquakes occuring in South Africa throughout its recorded history. It also has a list of earthquakes and tremors which occur from day to day and I was surprised at just how many there are especially around the Ceres area. For those of us who remember the 'big' one in 1969 here in Cape Town and how it traumatised our lives for months I can sympathise with those who have experienced the terrible consequences of Boxing Day's quake. When I say traumatised I mean that every time a big truck drove past and rattled the windows everyone would run outside thinking it was another tremor - it took ages for life to return to normal. We can only pray for those who have been affected by this tragedy. Check out this site http://www.geoscience.org.za/seismo/historical.htm - it has loads of other interesting pages as well. regards Sharon Warr View 1800s SOUTH AFRICAN PASSENGER LISTS at http://www.sagenealogy.co.za/DataArchive.htm SCRIBES PUBLISHING for Colonial Books on CD - visit http://www.sagenealogy.co.za/Scribes.htm ==== SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN Mailing List ==== Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx * CONFIDENTIALITY/PRIVACY NOTICE - The documents included in this transmission may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the information to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or action taken in reliance on the contents of these documents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this document in error, please notify the sender immediately to arrange for return or destruction of these documents.