it used to (and still does) happen to me all the time.  So much so that 
some people have asked me to warn them when my seismometer is off!  I 
missed the Boxing day quake in Indonesia for instance.

Ian

Jón Frímann wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I had a really bad luck today. As i told you in my email early today i
>had a psu failure in the computer that records earthquakes for me. But
>also today there was a earthquake that was 4.5Mb on the Reykjanes ridge,
>it was felt in Reykjavik. More info here,
>http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?page=current&sub=detail&id=HP408;2006
>
>But becose my earthquake computer is down i didn't record this
>earthquake. :(
>
>I really hate it when something like this happens.
>
>Regards.
>  
>
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