• west A 5.3 quake struck the state of Colorado late Monday, the southern part of the state hit by the rumbling. This is unusual, as Colorado generally doesn’t see high levels of seismic activity.
• east Today, a 5.9 earthquake struck in Virginia, and sent shock-waves through the northeast — clear to New England, New York, and DC. The USGS says they can’t trace this quake to a specific fault. source

• no
  deaths the good part about yesterday’s big quake in New Zealand
• $1.4 billion the estimate of damages from the quake; that’s the bad part source

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• To give you an idea of how bad this could be, Christchurch is the second largest city in the country. Fingers crossed. source

• Since films were silent back then, we’re guessing you won’t mind the Air soundtrack that comes with and fits the tone of the whole thing pretty well. One think we’ll note about the cityscape here: Nearly all the buildings you see here no longer exist. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake flattened them. Either way, it’s a pretty awesome clip. source

• 6.9 the magnitude
  of the quake, as reported by the USGS
• 400+ people have been
  killed in the wake of the major quake
• 10k+ people reported injured
  in China’s Qinghai province source

• Could the framing of this clip be any less postmodern? Girl with guitar is about to record song for her throngs of YouTube fans, but just happens to catch an insane earthquake instead. Glad it wasn’t worse. HuffPost has a bunch more clips like this. source

• $9.9 billion to help the quake-rocked nation recover source

• 90% of the country went dark last night during a quake fundraiser
• 2,000 number of miles the massive power outage stretched source

• 5.9M the size of the earthquake that hit Turkey early this morning
• 51+ people have died, though a firm number is hard to come by source