I don't think Terceria gets them like Sao Miguel and Faial, Pico and Sao Jorge. Someone showed me the fault lines and there is one right through Faial. In fact on the side of Pedro Miguel going into Horta there is a large gash in the mountain. There is a strange looking empty space where the terrain is totally different on each side of the gash. There are also many ruins half standing on Faial from the 1998 earthquake. For all the damage and loss of lives and injuries it was only Faial, Pico and San Jorge that was hit. Terceria is known for mudslides more than earthquakes I think. When I was staying in Porto Judeu last summer that's all people were talking about all the damage the mudslides caused - houses slid off the land flooding etc. They don't seem to have the earthquake issue like Faial Pico and even Sao Miguel. I believe there is a list of all the natural disasters the Azores has had on Wikipedia Azores earthquakes or Azores natural disasters I forget now. When I lived in Calif Arleta, Burbank and Yucipia had tremors but we were used to a little tremor life went on as usual. We had mudslides in February in Calif that were awful though. Anywhere we live there is always something at risk it seems. Carolina was tornadoes and hurricanes. RI Mass snowstorms and hurricanes some floods as well. We humans are resilient and learn to cope. :) I found the page - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disasters_in_the_Azores Looks like 1980 was the last one in Terceria.
On Wednesday, January 27, 2016, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: > I asked one of my students (an immigrant from Terceira) about earthquakes. > She said she never felt one there! (She came to America a couple of years > ago at the age of 11). I thought maybe they were really small and she > didn't realize that they were earthquakes. Since I've grown up with > earthquakes, I don't always feel them either. I've been teaching and saw > half my students dive under the desk, and told them "Ha, ha, good one. > Funny prank. Get up now." And they said, "No! No! Didn't you feel that > earthquake Miss Mello?" Half my class is looking at the other half like > they are crazy and the other half is looking back at them, completely > freaked out wondering why they aren't under the desk. I just don't feel the > small ones anymore. > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das > Tainhas, Achada > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','azores%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
