On May 20, 11:50*pm, "ViLco" > wrote:
> Michael Kuettner wrote:
> > Hope you're OK after the earth-quakes in Emiglia-Romana !
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > Michael Kuettner
>
> Thanks Michael, all is well, luckily I'm almost 60 km west of the epicentre.

That distance is not a guarantee: during the Loma Prieta earthquake of
1989, most of the serious damage was 50-60 km away, in San Francisco
and Oakland.

> The big one at 4AM sunday morning, 22 seconds of quake, was a real flashback
> of the one in 1996, when the ground rocked heavily and did damage here
> around, too.

Build a reinforced concrete house, attached to bedrock.