Surfing the Quake
When I tell people that I live in Los Angeles, one of the questions I am typically asked is, whether I am afraid of Earthquakes. Well, not really. Actually, I love them (given that there is a destructive aspect to them and it’s never a particularly great thing when people die in the context of one). When the earth suddenly shakes, all preconceptions suddenly go out the door, the body is confused, the senses are alarmed, and man-made structures are put to the test…
Last night, around midnight, I was having wine with Jesus and Marcello, another delightful sculptor who we went to visit in Milan a couple of weeks ago. Suddenly the room started shaking, the old heater rattling loudly, the floor moving and threatening to give in. My two artist friends – properly alarmed – were headed toward the door, while I was standing in the middle of the room, giggling and trying to surf the quake. Guess, one does not have to be in Los Angeles for earthquakes… It was not super strong one – a 5.3 on the Richter scale with its center at Lake Garda. It appears that Lake Garda is also a tectonic cesspool, so there might be more 
Grande!
For more detail information on the quake read on…
| Magnitude | 5.3 |
| Date-Time | Wednesday, November 24, 2004 at 22:59:39 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Wednesday, November 24, 2004 at 11:59:39 PM = local time at epicenter |
| Location | 45.663°N, 10.643°E |
| Depth | 15 km (9.3 miles) set by location program |
| Region | NORTHERN ITALY |
| Distances | 35 km (25 miles) NW of Verona, Italy 100 km (60 miles) NNE of Parma, Italy 110 km (65 miles) SSW of Bolzano, Italy 445 km (275 miles) NNW of ROME, Italy |
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 8.8 km (5.5 miles); depth fixed by location program |
| Parameters | Nst=110, Nph=110, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.04 sec, Gp= 76°, M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=6 |
| Source | USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) |
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