earthquake

[Sava]

Quakes don't affect commies.

[SpencerH]

We didnt feel a thing and the dogs didnt go crazy.

[TCO]

Re: Re: earthquake

Originally posted by SlowwHand


Fits the owner like a glove, doesn't it?

Do they make curved jimmy sacks?

[TCO]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I guess I just slept through it or maybe we didn't feel it at all.

I think FL was too far away. The 7 states:

-Georgia
-Alabama
-Tennesee
-Mississippi
-North Carolina
-South Carolina
-Kentucky

[Dauphin]

4.9 on the R scale?

Thats as big as the one that devastated Dudley last year!

[SlowwHand]

What the HELL is a jimmy sack?

[PLATO]

Originally posted by Lincoln
I felt it in middle Tennessee. Kind of rare for this area.

Lincoln, I'm in Franklin and didn't feel it. Of course it was at 5am and I was sleeping. What part of Middle Tennessee are you in?

Supposedly the epicenter was in Ft. Payne, Alabama.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
4.9 on the R scale?

Thats as big as the one that devastated Dudley last year!

It's not that big. When I felt this it felt like what I felt in San Diego, 150 miles from NorthRidge. (7.0). When you are at the epicenter it is short and violent. Further way it is long and rolling. I was worried that there was some bad damage at the epicenter, but it didn't happen because of how deep the thing was. Well, below the crust.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Lincoln
I felt it in middle Tennessee. Kind of rare for this area.

Did you guys know that the largest earthquake to ever hit the United States was centered in Arkansas? That's right in the early 19th century the southern midwest was hit with such a powerful earthquake that the Mississippi River actually reversed its direction of flow and for three days the river flowed south to north instead of the normal north to south.

BTW I've lived in California for just about all of my life and a 4.9 is sissy stuff. Wait until you get a real earthquake.

[TCO]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
What the HELL is a jimmy sack?

rubber

[TCO]

Originally posted by Oerdin


BTW I've lived in California for just about all of my life and a 4.9 is sissy stuff. Wait until you get a real earthquake.

I knew someone would say this sooner or later. The reason it was so low was that the quake was so deep. It was actually a very forceful event as shown by the wide number of states affected. Just the damage at the epicenter was minimal. To me it felt much like Northridge did when i was in SD, CA. Just in this case no damage at the epicenter.

[Sten Sture]

The New Madrid fault system in the Mississippi river valley from Illinois to Arkansas will shake you guys out of your jello molds some day.

The good news for us out here in the west is that we are gradually migrating to Alaska, so we get little quakes all of the time that relieve most of the pressure.

The USGS website has a bunch of earthquake maps and should have the details on your little pansy shake...


click on a square on the map to get the detail on the quake:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

[Dinner]

Originally posted by GP
To me it felt much like Northridge did when i was in SD, CA. Just in this case no damage at the epicenter.

Actually the number is calculated based upon the amount of energy released at the epicenter. Your own distance away from the epicenter (be it vertically or horizontally) decreases the amount of wave energy which reaches your location but the figure (be it 4.9 or 9.0 or 1.0) is based upon the point of origin.

BTW I was in SD during the northridge earthquake as well. Other then a handful of cracks in masonry walls not much damage occurred in SD.

[Sten Sture]

IIRC the geology of the SE USA bedrock mutes earthquake intensity - something like limestone absorbing shock waves...

Northridge was a 6.7? I thought it was stronger than that.

[Sava]

So I guess my hopes of the South breaking off and falling into the Gulf are futile.