It's a twister, it's a twister...

I survived my first earthquake today. 4.8 on the Richter scale. Although the quake was about 200kms from where I live, it did shake the place for 1 or 2 seconds.

There was one yesterday in the same place too, but it was only 2.0 (too small to be felt).

According to one site I found, a 5.0 earthquake has about the same force as the nuclear bomb that was detonated on Nagasaki (LINK)

In 2006, Korea had 49 earthquakes, the largest of which was 3.5 on the Richter scale.

Like George & Weezie...

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In any case, Betty and I are happy to say that we are moving on up to a dee-luxe apartment in the sky.

After years of living in school-provided housing, we have finally decided to take the plunge and get our own place. We have signed a 2-year lease on a 1,300 sq. ft. (35 pyeong) 2 bedroom/2 bathroom apartment on the eighth floor of an 18-floor building.

Korea has a very interesting leasing system. When you lease a place you place a sum of money down for a period of time (usually two years). At the end of the lease, that whole sum of money is returned in full to you! Cool!

Now that we have lots of room, we hope that everyone will be able to come for a vist.

Here are some pics of our new place (we move in on Jan 28 if anyone would like to lend us a hand in moving ;-)

See more pics from our new place HERE