Posted on 08/16/2009 6:20:32 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Scars linger from killer Montana earthquake of '59 By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press Writer GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST, Mont. (AP) -- Just before midnight under the moon's gray light, the world tilted and tore off a Montana mountainside. Sliding rock buried 19 campers alive, their bodies never found, and 80 million tons of rock and trees tumbled into Madison River Canyon, leaving rubble piled more than 200 feet deep.
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Very interesting. Thank you for posting.
Quake Lake. Made Hebgen Lake/Reservoir upstream slosh over the dam too. 0bama should have gone there instead of Jellystone.
Our only disasters in Michigan are man made.
Same here in Ohio.
If ot weren’t for politics, the midwest would be about the safest place in the country.
I agree.
New Madrid Fault.
Isn’t that south of the Mason Dixon line?
I was in Yellowstone National Park the night the earthquake occurred. This is also known as the Yellowstone earthquake. The epicenter was just across the border in Montana. It was a night of shake, rattle, and roll. But I was a kid and I thought it was great fun. There were smaller after-shocks.
We continued our sight-seeing trip the next day, but we also got to see some of the damage. What I remember is that some of the roads were blocked off because of landslides or big cracks in the earth. But the geysers kept on shooting out hot water. And the moose and bears were still roaming around.
There are documented stories from the early 1800 quake that said it caused the Mississippi to run backwards for a short while. Being from southern Indiana we had to learn about it in our grade school history classes. I can recall 3 small tremors while I was growing up. I think the largest was a 3.5 or so.
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Yes, I’d read that too.
I believe that one of the early 1800 quakes also changed the course of the Mississippie River at the far SW corner of KY.
I can imagine how it felt. I went through a 6.2 in New Brunswick, Canada in 1982. Knocked me off my feet at the university.
When I was in about first grade my family and I visited Yellowstone and my brother picked up a little paperback book called “The Night the Mountain Fell” about the ‘59 quake. It was one of the scariest things I’d ever read. A few years ago, my wife and I visited there (her first time) and I discovered that they still sell the exact same book, the only difference being the (higher) price sticker on it.
During the trip with my wife, we drove up to the quake area and saw a number of the quake remnants. Also stopped in at the visitors center that sits atop the part of the mountain that relocated.
There was a tremor from the fault in the early nineties which I felt sitting on my couch in my trailer. The lamp next to me actually wobbled a bit. I didn't know what it was, but thought it sure felt like a tremor. Read the news the next day to find out an tremor actually did occur from the fault.
Last night I was trying to find some of the opinion/predictions out there about what would happen if there was a really big quake along the new madrid fault that I had read (on-line) many years ago. It wasn’t good.
Of course, I can’t find the one I remembered.
There was also an interesting book (fiction) by Peter Hernon titled, _8.4_.
Hope you’re not too close to it... ;-)
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