re: #256 Last Mohican

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It was a little later than I remembered, I had placed it mentally around 1730. The fault lines are very deep, so there is very little real seismic activity around, but it does happen. Way back when I was a smoker, I only smoked in my “office” in the basement. I remember being down there and having a magnitude 4.5 hit. Nothing of course happened to anyone but it was still interesting.

Fortunately, it looks like Mexico City got off with only a good scare. There are no reports of things falling apart. The big major quake they had previously unearthed a lot of below spec building practices. It looks like they have cleaned up their act thankfully.