When I left for Africa, I
simply assumed that I would not be experience any earthquakes for 800 days.
I assumed wrong. Way wrong.
In the past two days
Uganda has two serious shakes. A 5.2 and
5.7, both that had plenty of aftershocks.
There was also another one in the middle of the night but this
California girl slept right through that one.
The Albertine Rift is
situated in the heart of Southwest Uganda, going through Queen Elizabeth
National Park and extending over to the Democratic Republic of The Congo and
down to Rwanda. It also happens to sit close
to an active fault line, which also happens to sit a mere 45 kilometers, 27.9
miles, from Bushenyi.
This means one thing.
We rock and roll when the
earth decides to shake things up a bit.
The other night we were
watching Jake Gyllenhaal’s new movie, Source Code, when Mother Nature decided
to give us a wake up call. For a solid
forty-five to fifty seconds the floors shook and the movie looked like we were
watching it through someone’s video camera who had one to many cups of
coffee.
After the excitement
ended, Facebook statuses were posted, and the safety of our friends were
accounted for, we were finally able to return to the movie that had me
scratching my head.
Earthquakes in
Uganda?
Who would have guessed?
I guess I am not that far
from home…
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