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Last night I was watching a movie at home around midnight and I felt it. I told my wife there was an earthquake and she just looked at it me understandingly, with that look that says, “you silly man, you fell asleep again”. I kept describing the feeling all morning today, the couch moving, lamps swaying, but there was no official proof. Later this morning the news came. It’s official; we had an earthquake, two of them actually, 3.6 and 4.5 on the Richter scale. The source was somewhere across the border with Jordan.
What’s interesting is that we had a stronger quake (5.1) exactly 3 years ago to the day. That one caused some serious panic and damages to several buildings and structures across the country. There are quite a few structures in Israel that would fall apart easily if we ever had a slightly stronger quake. The building codes are somewhat “flexible” and are sure to fail a serious stress test. Not to mention the “creative” construction projects always going on. Israel has had some notorious construction scandals including the collapse of the bridge at the Maccabiah Games and the collapse in Jerusalem of a Wedding Hall (Versaille Halls) where a floor dropped while 80 people were dancing, killing 23 people.
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Maccabiah games, not Maccabi.
Versaille, as in the French city and castle. Not Versay.
Thanks.
Can you go over the rest of the posts
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