I confess, it’s hard to get my mind around it. I read this morning that as of yesterday the death total from the China earthquake has surpassed 68,000. Over 360,000 have been injured and nearly 20,000 are still missing.
I’ve tried to equate it to numbers I’m familiar with. I once was in a stadium with over 50,000 other people. I try to fathom all those people (and more) being killed.
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There’s a lot of talk in Tennessee this morning about a very unusual event for this part of the country—an earthquake. The radio reported that the quake occurred somewhere around 4:45a and was centered somewhere close to Evansville, Indiana. It registered 5.3 on the Richter scale. People were calling into the radio station to say that it woke them from a sound sleep and several people here at the office felt it too.
Having spent much of my life in California, 16 years of it in SoCal, I am an earthquake veteran—so is anyone who has lived there very long. Thankfully, the worst damage I have experienced to my personal property is a few things being knocked off the walls, a bookshelf that collapsed, and a few unsightly cracks in buildings owned by the church I served.
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