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This YouTube video is an excerpt of WFIE’s early morning newscast. That’s channel 14, the NBC affiliate in Evansville, Indiana. Weatherman Byron Douglas stays on camera and reads from his script, even as the studio is shaking from a 5.2 scale tremor. Great job!

I used to live in Evansville. when the two ISPs in town only offered dial-up service. I’m surprised WFIE has a live newscast at 4:37 AM, as well as their own YouTube channel.

Earthquakes do happen in that area, thanks to the New Madrid fault. According to the US Geological Survey’s web site, this may be the largest earthquake ever recorded in the state. There was a 5.1 scale quake in 1909.

There’s also a Wikipedia article about today’s earthquake.

According to this Reuters article, a Yahoo-Google combination would face more antitrust scrutiny than a Yahoo-Microsoft merger:

Google held a 59.2 percent share of the U.S. Web search market in February, compared with Yahoo’s 21.6 percent and Microsoft’s 9.6 percent, according to research firm comScore.

Those numbers would give a Yahoo-Google combination an 80.8 percent market share.

Combine Yahoo and Microsoft and their market share is only 31.2 percent, which is less than Google’s numbers.