An earthquake East of the rockies is felt across a wider area. SOURCE: USGS
And here you thought only people in CA need to be concerned about earthquakes...
Posted on 06/22/2005 3:02:56 PM PDT by QQQQQ
An earthquake East of the rockies is felt across a wider area. SOURCE: USGS
And here you thought only people in CA need to be concerned about earthquakes...
You may get your wish yet. LOL
I am not wishing earthquakes on anyone.
But people living in other parts of the country are sometimes very smug about "so what if there is an earthquake in CA, maybe it will just go into the ocean and who cares"? Now they need to give up some of their smugness, because it CAN happen to THEM too.
Isn't NYC on a fault and upstate NY as well?
It'll have to hurry! I am leaving here tomorry at 7:00AM.
There's also a history of earthquakes in the Charleston, SC area, which had a devastating earthquake just after the war. This same quake rang church bells in Philadelphia, and caused landslides that permanently exposed several rock "domes" in the southern highlands of NC. I understand that the bedrock is denser (?) causing the effects to be felt further afield.
yuk, yuk!
Bush's fault?
Doesn't this reflect one of the basic tenets of science... that one day everything East of the San Andreas fault will sink into the Atlantic Ocean?
The New Madrid Fault has been active in the past. There was an earthquake here in Iowa,,, maybe 35 years ago. I felt it. The dishes clattered in the cupboard.
You're going to Mississippi, right? That's where the next one might hit.
Right after 9/11, we had an earthquake in S.C. It was small but made a rumbling noise and all the neighbors thought something had been blown up nearby.
Ohh great. That's all we need now is a New Madrid killer quake.
I remember so idiot geologist came with the following
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Earthquake:
December 3, 4:56pm 7.8 richter scale in year 90
I remember as Dec 3rd, approached people where I lived were scared to death
Lived in SC for all our lives, been through numerous shakers, and never sustained one bit of earthquake damage. To tell you the truth, it's really not a big concern for most here. Been scared a few times, but never had any damage.
Knock on wood...
That is the first I've ever heard of the New Madrid quake causing landsides to create the Domes in WNC. What is the source for that theory?
People in Thailand and Sri Lanka would have said the same thing if you'd asked them about Tsunamis, on Christmas Day last year.
Yes, there are faults on the immediate East Coast, and there is a fault under NYC, but it really hasn't been active, even a small (M5) quake under NYC would be devastating but the threat is somewhat debateable. New Jersey has more active faults, and there was a quite large quake in Massachusetts in 1755.
There are some good sized quakes in Upstate NY around Attica, and also in the Adirondacks, but not much to damage in the Adirondacks.
And then the St. Lawrence Valley in Canada and extreme N New York is a LOT like the New Madrid Seismic Zone; they've had some BIG BIG quakes in Canada.
You're referring to the predictoon of imbecile Iben Browning.
Iben Browning was NOT A GEOLOGIST; he didn't have a scrap of geological training; he was a zoologist. His prediction was regarded as a complete joke and fraud by all geologists.
The media fell all over it though. Like most bogus predictors, his prediction was based on "lunar tidal forces" nonsense, and it was distributed by him in a a series of paid lectures and subscription newsletters.
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