No point in quaking over fears of disasters

Monday, January 12, 2009

Just a few hours after State Emergency Management Region E coordinator Mark Winkler and Dick Knaup, Cape Girardeau County emergency management director, visited Cape Girardeau County commissioners to discuss emergency management plans, a 6.1-magnitude temblor struck just north of Costa Rica. A day later and much closer to home, the earth shook a bit near Glenallen, Mo., in what scientists are calling a 2.5-magnitude quake.

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