Earthquakes in Arusha

Perhaps in all the news about the big earthquake in Japan you missed the news that there was a big one here in Arusha? Yep, 6.1 on the Richter scale. Carol and I were sitting in a cafe called Jambo's cafe (which would translate to Hello's cafe..a rather silly name it reminds me of a street in Boulder called Table Mesa which translates to table table:)
anyhow I digress..we were sitting in the cafe when the whole place started rolling. Carol and I both being from the West Coast knew exactly what was going on and talked about getting under a doorway but sat just stunned. Everyone else spilled out onto the street and there was lots of laughter. It's been a long while since Arusha had this big an earthquake. It lasted about 30 seconds. What many people didn't feel was that there was also an earthquake on Sunday a much milder one that lasted for 2 minutes. I felt it as I was watching Harry Potter at our friend Sululu's house but noone else noticed it so I figured it was just my meds doing crazy things to me. The newspaper confirmed my suspicion that there was a light earthquake on Sunday as well.
Anyhow, thankfully no one was hurt. There is some scare about a volcano north of here that has been spewing some smoke.
On our end it was mostly entertaining since no one was hurt. Today there was an earthquake warning as we planned on entering the U.N. building to observe criminal tribunals on Rwanda. I have never had an earthquake warning before and have been through several before in Seattle. (and one in Ohio). Does the UN have some kind of special ability to predict earthquakes? Anyhow, we didn't have one today and were able to attend one of the trials...more on that later. Take care all!