Earthquake

dogghr

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We had a 3.2 magnitude earthquake in my area today, 13 miles down below the surface. The epicenter was basically under my farm. Third such in last 10 years. This area saw a 5.8 a century ago. Even the 3 felt like a tree falling on the building today, so thats enough for me.
While the western San Andreas fault gets all the notoriety, actually there are several faults in the midwest and east that are considered by some to be more dangerous because of their positions and lack of activity, i.e., due for a slip.
Haven't been to the farm yet but after last years drought destroying my brassica plots, if I go down there and all my brassica have been sucked into some abyss created by said earthquake, I'm gonna be pissed. But on the bright side, if the east slides into the ocean, I will have less drive time for beach front property.:cool:
 
This will just give me another option for shipping chicory to you - by ocean cruiser.

Seriously - glad all is okay and it wasn't worse!!!
 
We have earthquakes often here in okie land...never had them until the last few years...

Last one was 3.6 on the 10th and the largest in the state was 5.8 in 2016...
 
Glad you posted it, that's the only way to get news nowadays, the so-called news reporters are busy writing fake news about trump. An earthquake in West Virginia isn't going to get on CNN or npr. Unless they decide it was trumps fault, then they'd go wall to wall coverage.
 
This will just give me another option for shipping chicory to you - by ocean cruiser.

Seriously - glad all is okay and it wasn't worse!!!
See, there is good that happens in all things. I'm just hoping to sell my farm for profit as beach front property. But I need palm trees from you, not chicroy, and knowing you, there are probably some on your place with all your tree work. Probably even grafted to and apple.
We have earthquakes often here in okie land...never had them until the last few years...

Last one was 3.6 on the 10th and the largest in the state was 5.8 in 2016...
Yep, if you look at the fault map of US, OK is as high risk as any place in Cali.
Glad you posted it, that's the only way to get news nowadays, the so-called news reporters are busy writing fake news about trump. An earthquake in West Virginia isn't going to get on CNN or npr. Unless they decide it was trumps fault, then they'd go wall to wall coverage.
That is probably true. At first I thot it was just rumbling out of Washington from the Trump/Pelosi meeting yesterday.:) Being a small state of just 1.8 mill people, we used to being ignored by the masses, unless of course they come and search some abandoned town of 3 people to make a show of poverty across the state. Same as they do any small town USA. We tend to like flying under the radar.
I'm sure any media would never track down the county of my farm as it is all farm land with no traffic light, 4 lane road, or motel in the entire county. Perfect.
 
I recall being woken up by a small one once at my place......I did a interweb search on them in IN (we are part of the New Madrid fault zone) and they are actually fairly common - just small. I think the one I recall was in 2004 and was a 3.8 - epicenter was 20 to 25 miles away. If I recall history correctly wasn't reelfoot lake in western TN create due to an earthquake? If I recall the ground dropped after the quake and water from the Mississippi River flowed in (actually causing the river to flow backwards in some places.
 
I recall being woken up by a small one once at my place......I did a interweb search on them in IN (we are part of the New Madrid fault zone) and they are actually fairly common - just small. I think the one I recall was in 2004 and was a 3.8 - epicenter was 20 to 25 miles away. If I recall history correctly wasn't reelfoot lake in western TN create due to an earthquake? If I recall the ground dropped after the quake and water from the Mississippi River flowed in (actually causing the river to flow backwards in some places.
J-bird you are correct on your history. In 1811 when the New Madrid quakes occurred (three major and hundreds of minor) the Mississippi river flowed backward for hours filling up the chasm in the earth now know as Reelfoot lake.
Those quakes reportedly rang church bells as far away as Boston, Ma. Quakes lasted for months in the area.
By all accounts its was a doosy!
 
I recall being woken up by a small one once at my place......I did a interweb search on them in IN (we are part of the New Madrid fault zone) and they are actually fairly common - just small. I think the one I recall was in 2004 and was a 3.8 - epicenter was 20 to 25 miles away. If I recall history correctly wasn't reelfoot lake in western TN create due to an earthquake? If I recall the ground dropped after the quake and water from the Mississippi River flowed in (actually causing the river to flow backwards in some places.
You are correct. That was in 1811/1812. The quakes rung church bells in Boston.
 
What you don't want is another 1816:

  • Six inches of snow fell in June in New England and every month of the year had a hard frost.
  • A large part of the country was a mess but the northeast was the worst. It is estimated that 20% of the population either died or moved out.

Oh, and congress voted to double their salaries. So, some things haven't changed since then.

We now know what caused the bad weather, and we have always known what caused congress to raise their salaries.....
 
Between the earthquake of 1811/1812 and then the weather that Native described in 1816....good lord. If that happened today I can just imagine all the crazies talking about the end of the world and armageddon and the like......Oh, oh wait, they are doing that anyways....my bad! Today they just blame the president that they swear isn't "their's"!!!!:D
 
Between the earthquake of 1811/1812 and then the weather that Native described in 1816....good lord. If that happened today I can just imagine all the crazies talking about the end of the world and armageddon and the like......Oh, oh wait, they are doing that anyways....my bad! Today they just blame the president that they swear isn't "their's"!!!!:D
He's already been blamed for the Hurricanes...
 
What you don't want is another 1816:

  • Six inches of snow fell in June in New England and every month of the year had a hard frost.
  • A large part of the country was a mess but the northeast was the worst. It is estimated that 20% of the population either died or moved out.

Oh, and congress voted to double their salaries. So, some things haven't changed since then.

We now know what caused the bad weather, and we have always known what caused congress to raise their salaries.....
I'm forgetting my history. What caused the bad weather in 1816. I'm kindof remembering a volcano? Or the Russian meteorite?
 
I'm forgetting my history. What caused the bad weather in 1816. I'm kindof remembering a volcano? Or the Russian meteorite?
"Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mt Tambora in the Dutch East Indies (the largest eruption in at least 1,300 years after the extreme weather events of 535 - 536, perhaps plus the 1814 eruption of Mayon in the Philippines. The Earth had already been in a centuries-long period of global cooling that started in the 14th century. Known today as the Little Ice Age, it had already caused considerable agricultural distress in Europe. The Little Ice Age's existing cooling was aggravated by the eruption of Tambora, which occurred during its concluding decades."
 
I'm forgetting my history. What caused the bad weather in 1816. I'm kindof remembering a volcano? Or the Russian meteorite?

Johnny pretty much nailed it with his answer above..... I personally think the Tambora eruption was the most significant factor, but you had some other variables that added to the extremity of the event.
 
Between the earthquake of 1811/1812 and then the weather that Native described in 1816....good lord. If that happened today I can just imagine all the crazies talking about the end of the world and armageddon and the like......Oh, oh wait, they are doing that anyways....my bad! Today they just blame the president that they swear isn't "their's"!!!!:D
Oh trust me I've had more fun reading about that little shake at my place than all the recent news. Some say its the end of the world, some blame on fracking/ which we have none here, some say leak and explosion from the 42" gas line coming thru the area/ no construction started on that, and best of all.... get this... the US was testing bombs underground to be used against North Korea!!
There was a loud bang as the fault slipped and about 3 sec of tremors I was told from people who live near my place.

Back to the little ice age.... the other factors besides the volcanoes of that was a slight change in tilt of the earth, reduced solar flares which typically reduce heat from sun, and change in ocean currents. Climate change is ongoing, ask the dinosaurs. Of course Al Gore knows all. And don't forget, he also said he invented the internet. Odd that comment of his is never repeated these days.
 
Wow, grab your panties please. I have been in socal for 35 years. Whittier, 87?, Northridge?95?, ect. Nobody had earhquake ins here. It rocks your home, bfd!. Irma went right over my Naples condo, bfd. Grow a pair, no big deal. I never think about earthquakes and my Naples 5th floor condo is fully inssured. Who cares? I will be there in 4 weeks, no big deal. Do a satin pantie check, check your eggs and move on. Pathetic
 
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