It started as an ordinary Sunday, reading up on economic trends and trying to learn some Italian, when my RSS reader suddenly made me aware of an earthquake in the region the primary server resides in my home town, some 600 kilometers away from my place of residence, so I had to check up on it.
Ok, it was obviously not a great earthquake. The server did not experience any downtime whatsoever, not even any power flickering was noticed by the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), but it was still an earthquake that is stronger than we are used to in Norway. Apparently it is the 8th quake the past 100 years in the region of the approximate magnitude, around 4 on Richter's magnitude scale. The last time was in 1986, which I for obvious reasons don't remember too well (being born in August 1985).
The quake lasted for about four seconds as shown from NORSARS graph below
and it was also noticed by British Geological Survey's station at Lerwick on Shetland
European-Meditteranean Seismological Centre places the quake about 24km north-east from Ã…lesund.
No persons have been reported to getting hurt, and there are only minor material damages, as expected by a light quake such as this.
