I was surprised when I walked into the Chart Room last night and Emily asked me about the earthquake. What earthquake? Turns out there was another one about 8 miles off the coast of Cuba wednesday night at 10:20. About seven miles below the water’s surface. I who read the newspapers all the time had failed to read yesterday’s Key West Citizen. I was unaware.
The earthquake was a 5.1 on the Rector scale. Apparently no damage anywhere. I did not feel it in Key West. Nor did Emily and others at the Chart Room last night.
I have a concern. Earthquakes in this area are uncommon. Now there have been two off the coast of Cuba in a month. Do these two earthquakes portend something? Is there a big one in the making? Should we be concerned about a tsunami?
Don’t laugh! So far the weather media has not discussed this aspect. I am not overly concerned. Such thoughts occur to me, however.
Conch Republic Admiral Frankie was part of our bar discussion last night. Besides the earthquake, the discussion involved the Olympics and skiing. Turns out Emily was/is a skier and a pretty proficient one at that. I thought she was born and raised in Key West. Not so. She was born in Indiana, spent time in Virginia and elsewhere. She developed her skiing prowess in those places.
Before heading to the Chart Room, I stopped at Christine’s opening night of her art exhibit. Christine Cordone has risen to a new level. She now has people in her paintings. I was impressed. Her water colors warm the heart and brighten a room!
Ralph Kiner died yesterday. A baseball great! Played many years with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Then spent even more years as the Mets broadcaster. He is a Hall of Famer.
My recollection goes back to the mid to late 1940s. Baseball was everything. My buddies and I used to spend some summer afternoons sitting around on the floor in someone’s living room listening to major league baseball games. One of our heroes was Ralph Kiner.
Listening is the operative word in the previous paragraph. There was no television back then. It was radio!
Enjoy your day!
Just a quick question… I’ve only lived in Florida for 13 years, and I didn’t even know about the possibility of Earth quakes in this part of the world… So, my question is…. ‘what’s the possibility of a Tsunami around south Florida?’
I don’t know. I was raising the question re the possibility. As with you, I have never heard of South Florida earthquakes. Nor has anyone I have spoken with.
“She was born in Indiana, spent time in Virginia and elsewhere. She developed her skiing prowess in those places.”
Indiana as a skiing place is new to me though it does have Paoli Peaks with I believe has a 300 foot vertical drop…sort of a mole hill by New England standards.
Virginia where I live doe shave some good skiing in the mountains with steep drops and slopes. Not really New England and certainly not Colorado but not bad and here you can learn to be pretty proficient on the skis.