OT shaking in Tennessee OT

[Plymouthy Adams]

How many of our members were affected by the tremors out of Arkansas..it was felt in Missouri and Tennessee..we have number of members in the surrounding area..

[dezeldoc]

That lil ol 4.7! heck we don't even notice them little ones out west.

[Plymouthy Adams]

while I agree it is not what you call a seismic disaster...the thing in regard to this area..Since September of last year they have had over 800 tremors...now that would be a shaken bottle of pop..I would hate to be there when they pull the tab...

New Madrid Fault..

Edited March 1, 2011 by Tim Adams

[TodFitch]

while I agree it is not what you call a seismic disaster...the thing in regard to this area..Since September of last year they have had over 800 tremors...now that would be a shaken bottle of pop..I would hate to be there when they pull the tab...

New Madrid Fault..

I think I'd rather be in California for "the Big One" than anyplace within 500 or so miles of the New Madrid fault when it goes. At least the building codes here have considered earthquakes since the 1933 Long Beach event. Not everything is built to code and the codes do need to be updated as each large earthquake shows that we don't know everything about how buildings (and soil) perform when shaken. But at least there is some effort here to account for having the ground move under a building. One reason you won't find many brick houses in California.

Interesting to note that the recent earthquakes in Arkansas have happened at the same time and locations as the injection wells for disposing of waste from the hydro-cracking operations on the gas wells were operating. Co-incidence or not???

[Plymouthy Adams]

that Tod is another reason not to be there when she blows...if something don't fall on you first off..will you out run the fireball of the gas rupture....it is an interesting read on the New Madrid fault...I was in southe Ill. when one of these tremors come about..second story of a huge library..not a fun feeling for sure..

[dezeldoc]

Well here is a snap shot from 2 minutes ago, notice how many are on the map. this is just in 30 days.

[Joe Flanagan]

I guess that is why in California, no one will ever come up to you and say, "What's shakin'?"

[Don Coatney]

Here in the Boro there are bigger rumblings felt everytime I start my car.

I have never felt a quake. In the mid 70's while I was living in Columbus, Ohio there was a quake one day. It was a Saturday afternoon and I was sitting at a picnic table in my back yard entertaining the all girl softball team I sponsered. Trust me had there been any jiggling I would have seen it and probably felt it. My neighbor from across the street came runnong over and said he had pictures falling off the wall but I neither felt nor saw any out of the ordinary movement. It was a good day:cool:

[Jim Saraceno]

I was out back working on the car when it happened and never felt a thing. Epicenter looks to be about 265 from St. Louis.

Though close, it doesn't appear to be on the New Madrid fault line. I see there is a lot of concern about the injection wells that Todd mentioned.

[martybose]

I was in southern California about 70 miles from the epicenter of one of the big ones, and after getting more or less thrown out of my bed in the hotel, I looked out the window and watched about 2 foot waves crashing around in the swimming pool.

Closer to home for the Lomo Prieta quake. About the same distance from the epicenter, in a single story building built on a mudflat by driving steel pilings down 60 feet into bedrock. So when it hit the whole building started moving 2 or 3 feet each way on top of those pilings, whipping everything around like crazy. The lights went out, then a big gushing sound as the fire main into the building broke.

And I've been through a few others.

But I tell you what; I'll stick with the occasional earthquake if the choice was between where I am and say hurricane alley in Florida, or some of the midwest tornado regions. Maybe it's just what you're used to, but I've never lost anything in any of the earthquakes other than time, and I have plenty of that.

Marty

[55 Fargo]

I was in southern California about 70 miles from the epicenter of one of the big ones, and after getting more or less thrown out of my bed in the hotel, I looked out the window and watched about 2 foot waves crashing around in the swimming pool.

Closer to home for the Lomo Prieta quake. About the same distance from the epicenter, in a single story building built on a mudflat by driving steel pilings down 60 feet into bedrock. So when it hit the whole building started moving 2 or 3 feet each way on top of those pilings, whipping everything around like crazy. The lights went out, then a big gushing sound as the fire main into the building broke.

And I've been through a few others.

But I tell you what; I'll stick with the occasional earthquake if the choice was between where I am and say hurricane alley in Florida, or some of the midwest tornado regions. Maybe it's just what you're used to, but I've never lost anything in any of the earthquakes other than time, and I have plenty of that.

Marty

Wow Marty, sounds like these quakes are very powerful.

Twisters scare the crap out of me, I get real paranoid up here in summer, when any thunderstorm activity starts.

We are in the country,and in Manitobas Tornado country, and if a tornado ripped through at night, we would not see it coming, thankfully we only get a fraction of the amount of twisters as say Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas get each summer.....

[Jim Saraceno]

Speaking of twisters, we had twisters touch down within a mile of us on New Year's eve and again this past Sunday night. The crazy thing is that even with the tornado being so close, we never saw much in the way of wind at our house. We've seen much worse winds in just a regular thunder storm.

It's amazing how tornadoes can pick and choose such small areas and then skip over others.

[55 Fargo]

Speaking of twisters, we had twisters touch down within a mile of us on New Year's eve and again this past Sunday night. The crazy thing is that even with the tornado being so close, we never saw much in the way of wind at our house. We've seen much worse winds in just a regular thunder storm.

It's amazing how tornadoes can pick and choose such small areas and then skip over others.

This is true of twisters, and your right, thunderstorms, can be very wicked up here as well. The earliest I ever recall any tstorms here is maybe April, but have heard thunder in February.

You Guys must be situated where cold fronts meet warm gulf air, especially in the dead of winter to have a twister is mind boggling, your about 846 miles south of my place, and weather can sure be different....

Edited March 3, 2011 by Rockwood

[Jim Saraceno]

You Guys must be situated where cold fronts meet warm gulf air, especially in the dead of winter to have a twister is mind boggling, your about 846 miles south of my place, and weather can sure be different....

Yes, there's not much to stop the weather between you and the Gulf of Mexico. Between you Canadians sending us your cold fronts and those gulf states sending us their warm fronts, we can get some hellacious thunderstorms and tornadoes and though they are more frequent in the spring, they can come any time of the year.

The worst snow storm we've had since I moved here in '76 was a snow-thunderstorm. It was pretty wild. The forecast was showers with chance of flurries and we had a blizzard with thunder and lightning. It dropped about 2 feet of snow, which in this town had schools and some businesses shut down the town for a week!