The New Madrid fault is the set of concentric ovals centered around the Miss River (see below).
However, there also has been some seimic activity further east as well.
BS.
Have they blamed it frakking or climate-change yet?
Doom and gloom that even includes a CNN citation.
Was Knoxville knocked around at all?
This is alarmist garbage. But when the New Madrid fault goes it’s gonna be epic.
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If you looked at the map, it was right close to the borders of all those states. The article makes it sound like it was a huge deal. It was not. My daughter in Knoxville did not know about it until she heard it in the news.
We have always had occasional small tremors but this one was big, for us. I read somewhere that they had upgraded it to a 5.5. I thought it was that type of thunder that rolls in waves at first but both my little house dogs jumped out of bed and started running and barking. The outside dogs were barking too. They don’t bark at thunder. From the map of where it hit the epicenter was close to us. I’m in Athens TN.
Several years ago we had one that was bad enough that it sent me and my work office chair bouncing across the room.
My nephew in Atlanta felt it. He says he has felt three earthquakes since moving to Georgia in the 1980s.
The New Madrid fault is the set of concentric ovals centered around the Miss River (see below).
However, there also has been some seimic activity further east as well.
I live in S Illinois and we had one 6 or 7 years ago that was 4.1 (New Madrid.) Middle of the night and scared the crap outta us. Shook the heck out of the house.
Next morning I added an earthquake rider onto my homeowners.
It’s happened before. And it will happen again.....someday.
meh
This was NOT a large earthquake. Large for Tennessee maybe but that’s all
There are old fault lines that run along the area of east Tennessee.
Between about 450 to 250 million years ago, the east coast of the United States was the site of massive tectonic collisions. The pro-Atlantic (the “Iapetus ocean”) was being consumed as a chain of islands, micro-continents, Africa and Europe steadily moved westward. Older, deeply buried bedrock (pre-Cambrian) was pushed up along thrust faults creating the Smokey and Blue Ridge mountains. This earthquake I’m sure was related to faults associated with the piecing together of these ancient land masses.
4.4? Would that even get Californians out of bed?
TRUMP’S FAULT!! /s
No worries. This quake relieved some pressure off the New Madrid fault.
5.56mm
I first learned about earthquake rods in Charleston. They were likely built into or added to buildings after the 1883 quake. Here is a picture of earthquake rods in an old Texas church: Link
More importantly, is Graceland ok?
He points to the large circle and says " This is the sun. A giant nuclear reactor in space."
He then points to the small circle and says " This is the earth, a cooling planet floating in the frozen vacuum of space and is subject to all the forces of the surrounding planets and space debris. So never be surprised by changes that can take place on this little cooling ball in space."
Western Tennessee is right in the heart of the New Madrid fault and subject to major earthquakes to the point that homeowners have to have earthquake insurance riders on their policy. The most severe earthquake known in the lower 48 hit there in the 18 teens and caused little damage since the area was not settled much.