Earthquake!

This morning, around quarter to 4, we were all wakened by a shaking house. Well, not all of us - Emma slept through it all, and was annoyed when she later realized she´d slept through a record-breaking earthquake. It´s been the big talk in town all day, so doubly annoying not to have even noticed...
By the way, during the trembling moments, it didn´t occur to William the geologist that it was an earthquake - he thought it was the wind trashing the house (the weather was quite noisy). I, too, thought it was the wind. Not until later this morning did I realize it was a quake, when I heard it on the radio.


Anyway, here´s where the epicenter was - about 90 km south of Longyearbyen. If it had been right here, more than books would have fallen down.










And this is how it looked like from here (seismologically).









Something else that happened last night, that we knew would happen, was the nearly full moon being eclipsed by the earth-shadow. But as the sky was completely overclouded, we didn´t bother to stay awake for it.

Luckily, the other day we had a lovely view of the moon bouncing on pink clouds, and that´s nearly as nice.