From Lithuania
Dear Sirs,
As you know, two extraordinary events took
place in Kalingrad area (quite close to Lithuania) yesterday. The events
were felt on large part of Lithuania's territory. Four seismic station located
in Lithuania has recorded it.
I would like to thank you for your real time seismic system and web page.
It helped us a lot trying to find out what is going on.
Andrius Pacesa, geofisicist.
Geological Survey of Lithuania
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Hi, i would like to say that i have felt earthquake which was in Kaliningrad
at 17.35 lithuanias time. I live in Vilnius, Lithuania. Also i could say that
it was particulary strong. Could you explain, if this earthquake was natural,
or human made by some kind of explosion?
Sabina
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Hello,
I found http://www.emsc-csem.org/Html/PRIMORSK_210904.html and thought that
my submission might be useful.
Current location is Kaunas, Lithuania, a few km from city centre. I was in a
first floor of an brick building. Both events could be felt clearly. Things
like that are virtually impossible here, so at the first time I thought
it was my imagination or something. At my work desk, there stands a lamp with
spring support (nice seismoscope, by the way!) -- it wiggled up and down with
a magnitude of about 1 cm. The chair that I've been sitting on, though also
with spring support, passed the disturbance over; on a stiff chair, I would
expect more.
And that's it. No trembling windows, things tumbling down, etc.
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Hello,
We felt earthquake with all coworkers very well. Both strikes. But any damage
were made, no broken cups :+) We work in center of Kaunas, 5th floor.
The bad thing is that noone knows how big this earthquake is gonna be.
So, you don't know if you stay still and work or keep your monitor on the
table or run away
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21.09.2004 abt 16.35 local time Klaipeda Lithuania
I was on the 4th floor, it was like 3 waves, 2 strong and 3d like an echo.
It was absolutely obvious, the building had been hit from the western side.
What are the prospects?
It sounds stupid, but those annoying dogs are quiet the same way as yesterday
just before the quake.
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Hello,
I was on the 6th. floor in Kaunas, Lithuania. I've heard the news about
the first quake and was anticipating the next one. I had made a simple
pendulum from a long thin fishing line and 100 gram fishing weight. The
pendulum was tied very close to the wall. Around 16:35 local time (13:35
GMT) I've felt a strange subtle feeling, then suddenly there were 2
stronger but very smooth waves and a few seconds later a weaker third. I
kept my eyes on the pendulum, which had inclined roughly ~1.5 cm max.
At the same time one of my friends was talking on the phone with someone
in Klaipeda. During the call the person in Klaidepa said that he just felt
a shock wave, roughly 8 seconds later the wave was felt in Kaunas.
It was very exciting, because I had no expectations to ever feel a quake
in Lithuania.
Best regards,
Darius Petrauskas
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