Hong Kong: earthquake epicentre

Update: for information about the earthquake in late December 2006 which disrupted telecommunications in Hong Kong and much else of East Asia, please click on "earthquake" in Labels (below, scroll down). Thank you.



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According to Hong Kong Observatory, the epicentre of the earth tremor was in the region of Dangan Island (Dangan Dao), south-southeast of Hong Kong.

Looking around, an abstract published in December 1997 in International Union of Geological Sciences says Dangan Island is on a major fault zone and "is inferred to have the possibility of generating destructive earthquakes". IUGS

Oh, yeah? Mister B will take his chance. However, now that we know, if there is another violent shake of Mother Earth, Mister B, who spent some time in Los Angeles some years ago, will go into San Andreas Fault Earthquake Drill Mode: if the earth begins to tremble, grab yr shoes and a flashlight and crouch in a doorway.