Hawaii Scopes damaged by quake

I saw this in the paper today. The Keck brakes and acuators, whatever those are, were damaged and need replacing. One scope was move 1/8 inch, the other one inch, so they will also need realigning.

More here.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101900862.html

SL

I rather blame it anything else! Tourists! Walmart! etc. etc.

Too bad but at least it all seems fixable.

I am always afraid of a big earthquake hitting here where I live in Alaska. I've often wondered if being on top of one of the local mountains would be the safest place. Nothing could fall on you, as long as you weren't scaling it at the time. I'd like to hear reports from the people who were on the mountains there when it happened.

I saw videos of an earthquake in Japan once where, one second a guy is sitting there in an office and everything is normal, and the next second 60 pound laser printers are lurching off of file cabinets and such. Mortifying!