Posted on 07/17/2016 12:02:52 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Maybe finish this job?
http://www.sptimes.com/News/103199/Floridian/Digging_ourselves_int.shtml
I was in New Smyrna Breach just down the highway when it happened and didn’t notice. Not surprising I guess.
Didn’t feel a thing. Is the tsunami on it’s way?
I’ll take earthquakes over hurricanes most of the time.
Isn’t this the type of thing that releases the methane bubbles from the seafloor, reducing the buoyancy of ships, causing them to sink, causing the Bermuda Triangle mystery’s?
Don’t worry...you were...
-—I’ll take earthquakes over hurricanes most of the time.-—
Having lived 30 miles from where Andrew hit...
That is the understatement of the century..
Depends on what part of the country you're in. California? Sure. East coast or Midwest near Missouri? Waay different tectonics. Still, a 3.7 in Florida is not so bad, especially if it was 100 miles off Daytona beach.
The 2011 central Virginia quake that did all that damage in DC was an intraplate earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8. I live in Alexandria, VA. Whoa, nellie! All the pots & pans in my kitchen fell to the floor.
Unlike quakes on the west coast, quakes striking the east is more like hitting a bell with a hammer; it travels quite far. That "little" 5.8 quake was felt across more than a dozen U.S. states and in several Canadian provinces, and was felt by more people than any other quake in U.S. history.
True. During the big Charleston, SC earthquake "quicksand" formed and there were blowholes with the groundwater shooting out like a geyser.
I had forgotten about those. YIKES!!
And I was right in the middle of the Loma Prieta quake in San Jose, CA. Still better than hurricanes. Plus, quakes are over quickly.
That’s a fact. The sandy land around the San Francisco Marina essentially liquefied in the quake that brought down part of the Oakland freeway.
It’s all that fracking going on in Florida!
Crazy. We spent most of the time at New Smyrna Beach yesterday surfing. Were stuffing our faces with post-beach tacos around three. Wonder if we’d have seen better waves if we’d stayed. Daytona is just about five miles north of NSB.
There were a couple in 2006 that could be felt in Florida and Georgia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Gulf_of_Mexico_earthquake
Oh, I would love to see someone here photshop a gator on meth!
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