On Monday afternoon Dec 5th and earthquake hit Lake Tanganyika. The epicentre was approximately 80 miles south of Kigoma, but the effects were felt all over East Africa and as far as Angola to the Southwest. We first heard the rumble an then felt the shaking. Everything was moving, windows were rattling, a few things fell off the bookshelf. When it seemed to be getting more intense instead of letting up, we decided it might be safer to be outdoors, so we grabbed Mikaela out of her nap and ran outside. Even after we couldn’t feel the tremors anymore, we could see our hedge still shaking for several minutes. But we are all fine, we haven’t heard of great damage or casualties in our region, praise the Lord for that. Thank you to all who pray for our safety, God hears your prayers.
Rachel was very excited to experience a real earthquake, especially since we had just studied about the earth in school three days earlier, in particular we had studied earthquakes and tsunamis, so I couldn’t have given her a better hands-on lesson!!
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