And Things Get Shaky!!

A little over 24 hours ago an 8.2 magnitude quake rocked the Fiji Islands in the southwest Pacific; yes, there have been lots of aftershocks, some in the mag. 6 range. Central Indonesia (near the current volcano??) had a 5.4 quake and 4 minutes later a 6.3 shake; that foreshock certainly was a warning. This week overall had the big busted up planet throwing down magnitude 6+ quakes all around the Pacific from Costa Rica, to Alaska(2), Japan, Indonesia and several in Fiji. I previously mentioned it had seemed a little quiet for quite awhile. That seems to be over. Nothing on the quake site about tsunamis but sure seems like with all the strong quakes, near water, that some wave action would have happened.
A couple of cloudy, cooler but still humid days here in the Old Dominion and as is often the case, storms were all around but no rain fell here. Tomorrow brings another slight chance, Tuesday less so and then a strong cold front Wednesday is forecast to usher in the first real breath of fall. By Thursday  lows will possibly dip into the upper 50's with daytime highs only in the low 80's and the air will be dry!!
During August we will lose over an hour of daylight from the really long days around the summer solstice, summer being about 2/3 over as we continue to tilt back away from the big star nearby. Plenty of warm weather to go so no need to bust out the sweaters just yet. Enjoy the cool that's coming, remember what it's like to shiver a little. You will sweat again.
The hidden rezoning debacle here in Louisa is fully in the news - the cat out of the bag and lying government spin that residents are excited to have heavy industry moving into there bucolic corner of the county. Seems to be a battle brewing with the idiotic " more is better" faction not thinking it through - more is the game plan for cancer and that doesn't work out for the better. Better is better, and that only comes from involving everyone to be affected and not just backroom deals so a few rich non-residents get richer and residents bank roll that. I bet I mention this again. More is better is the current economic model for humans on Earth and that eventually won't work on a finite planet, for humans anyway. The planet and the bacteria on the planet won't care.
Hopefully, another blog in the morning; a chatty weekend, at an art showing with a former teacher colleague , with a geologist neighbor about his (and other's) local earthquake work and with another neighbor about issues involving the shabby forestry "harvest" adjacent to me and to his friend. Lots going on but right now I'm just waiting for a big dog to come back home from his evening visit to the neighbors - and hoping he has no encounters with a large coyote that was in my neighbors front yard last week. Always something going on, today on Earth.
If it's clear (and that's not here) the moon should be about halfway between Jupiter and Saturn tonight.