A seismograph reading. A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake centered off the western
Pacific coast shook northern California on Thursday, the US Geological Survey reported.
(AFP/File/Olivier Morin)
Posted on 02/04/2010 12:28:17 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin
Good, glad your OK.
Pruning roses, ya, right. You doing anything else out there you care to share?
Just take another shot of whatever you were drinking last night...
A 6.0 Morgan Hill quake in the 80s was pretty wild. I was in a trailer on the phone to wifey who was about 10 miles away, she was under her desk, poles were wobbling all over the place, there was a nearby school bus maintenance yard, those babies were bouncing and the ground was literally undulating,, dust and crud in the air .. there are some days you don’t forget.
That red square on the map looked way bigger than what we see down here.....
Good news! I didn’t feel a thing here.
Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri.
Centered around NW TN.
TY, it was odd not too long ago felt a small wave here in AL
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The New Madrid Earthquake of 1811 - 1812
In December of 1811, a the largest earthquake ever recorded in American History started. This earthquake, called the New Madrid Earthquake because of its primary location on the New Madrid Fault, near New Madrid, Missouri. From the effects of the 1811-1812 earthquakes, it can be estimated that they had a magnitude of 8.0 or higher on the not yet invented Richter scale. Large areas sank into the earth, new lakes were formed, and the Mississippi River changed its course due to the earthquakes.
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Scientific Probabilities
Three earthquakes that occurred in 1811 and 1812 near New Madrid, MO are among the Great earthquakes of known history, affecting the topography more than any other earthquake on the North American continent. Judging from their effects, they were of a magnitude of 8.0 or higher on the Richter Scale. They were felt over the entire United States outside of the Pacific coast. Large areas sank into the earth, new lakes were formed, the course of the Mississippi River was changed, and forests were destroyed over an area of 150,000 acres. Many houses at New Madrid were thrown down. "Houses, gardens, and fields were swallowed up" one source notes. But fatalities and damage were low, because the area was sparsely settled then.
The probability for an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 or greater is significant in the near future, with a 50% chance by the year 2000 and a 90% chance by the year 2040. A quake with a magnitude equal to that of the 1811- 1812 quakes could result in great loss of life and property damage in the billions of dollars. Scientists believe we could be overdue for a large earthquake and through research and public awareness may be able to prevent such losses.
Los Angeles can expect to be mightily damaged by movement on the San Andreas Fault, or the Newport-Inglewood or other neighboring faults, most probably within the next 25 years. But the Eastern and Midwestern states also face ground shaking of colossal proportions, repetitions of such known upheavals as the 1886 Charleston, S.C., quake, the 1755 Boston quake, and the Jamaica Bay quake hundreds of years ago on New York's Long Island. The granddaddy of them all was the 1811-1812 series of three great quakes on the New Madrid Fault (halfway between St. Louis and Memphis beneath the mississippi), which shook the entire united States. The next time the New Madrid Fault produces such a quake, it is estimated 60 percent of memphis will be devastated, leaving $50 Billion in damage and thousands of dead in its wake. Memphis, you see - like Armenia - has looked down the barrel of a loaded seismic gun for decades, but has done virtually nothing to move out of the crosshairs.
Glad you’re still anchored down. Guess that’s where the roses come in eh?
TY Ernest, ever the helpful guy -g- What I wanted to know was, long ago I read that it ran along Illinois, maybe 80-90 mi outside Chicago, CRS, so I thought I’d ask
Great Ivar’s Ghost! Glad Dolly the Digger wasn’t interrupted from harvesting your truffles.
Y’all already forgot we had a 6.5 just a few miles west of Eureka on Jan 9 2010 and 3 days later Haiti upstaged us. I was trapped in the liquor cabinet for hours after that one... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2424904/posts
Trapped eh??
...sounds like you were expecting something....
There must be some fault maps of that area....not sure I have seen any however.
Hey Yur in the news again..
USGS: Magnitude-6.0 quake off Northern Calif coast
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_re_us/us_california_coast_earthquake
PETROLIA, Calif. – A magnitude-6.0 earthquake has struck off the coast of Northern California’s Humboldt County, but officials say there are no immediate reports of major damage or injury.
The U.S. Geological Survey reports the temblor hit at 12:20 p.m. about 35 miles northwest of the community of Petrolia and nearly 50 miles west of Eureka. The shaking was felt up to the Oregon border and as far south as Sonoma County.
A seismograph reading. A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake centered off the western
Pacific coast shook northern California on Thursday, the US Geological Survey reported.
(AFP/File/Olivier Morin)
Just remember that the last time we were in the news Haiti was hit. The next one could be on the East Bay Fault any time now...
This is why!
http://www.2012warning.com/
I believe it is called the Ferndale Fault.
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