CompuServe Messages

David, I think the most harm done to my relatives was psychological. One family of relatives won't go back in the house and have fled the area. They are in shock more than anything else. OZ has it's own hazards and many of them are from animals: poison snakes, spiders, crocs, dingos, sharks, psychopathic 'roos etc. Actually, earthquakes are probably quite low on the life-threatening scale in the bigger scheme of things. I'd heard that more people were killed in the Mid-West from the deep-freeze than were in our tremblor.