The earth moved!
on Thea's Blog (Uganda), 28/Aug/2009 07:34, 34 days ago
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Last night I had a strange, half-waking dream that a very heavy vehicle was rumbling slowly down the road at the bottom of the garden, causing my bed and the bottles on my shelf to rattle and shake. This morning Esther told me that there had been a tremor at 5.30 am. I was forced to draw the rather disappointing conclusion that I had slept through my first ever earthquake.It turns out that Uganda is one of the most seismically active areas on the African continent, and Kabarole district, where Fort Portal is, the most earthquake prone of all. It’s apparently all to do with the Western Rift of the East African Rift System which is also responsible for the Rwenzori mountains I spend so much time gazing at. There have been a few biggish quakes in the past that have caused collapsed buildings and some deaths, but generally they tend to be pretty moderate, if fairly frequent, tremors of the type we had this morning. Next time I'll try to be awake.
