Posted on 06/22/2017 9:33:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A report of a major earthquake off the coast of Santa Barbara was actually a false alarm based on a quake that happened in 1925.
The U.S. Geological Survey sent out an email alert Wednesday afternoon saying a magnitude 6.8 quake had struck in the Pacific Ocean 10 miles west of Santa Barbara.
The event was promptly deleted from the USGS website, but screenshots of the page made their way around social media.
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USGS geophysicist Rafael Abreu says researchers were working on the 1925 earthquake when the mistaken alert went out.
Dr. Lucy Jones made light of the error, calling it a “software glitch”.
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An official statement said the notification was “caused by a revision” of the 1925 quake and “was misinterpreted by software as a current event”.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
The flip side is The John T. Scopes Trial. Vernon Dalhart was the most popular singer in America during the 1920s.
“Did the earth move for you?”
“Oh. Uhhhhhhhhh. Sure. Sure it did.”
The biggest-selling Victor record of the 1920’s was not “My Blue Heaven,” by Gene Austin. It was “The Death of Floyd Collins,” by Vernon Dalhart, in 1925.
I knew a guy who worked at Victor in 1927. He gave out the stampers in the morning, and the girls would say, threateningly, “Give me 20964.” If they got that stamper, they could stamp all day without interruption, and make more money.
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