Mother Nature on the line

p6 The Weekend Australian 8/1/2005

“ The earth is still ringing like a bell, nearly two weeks after the powerful earthquake that launched the killer Boxing Day tsunamis.

“I’ve never seen the earth ringing this long after an earthquake,” said Australian National University geophysicist Herbert McQueen.

“The persistence is very unusual, “ said Mr. McQueen, who has monitored the bell ringing effect with a highly sensitive instrument called a super conducting gravimeter.”

Mother Nature’s calling…get up and answer the phone , will you?