jabbadeznuts

Did any one else feel the earthquake this morning arround 5:00? It supposedly came from nothern Alabama and went east. I sure felt it.

streckfu's

Who ate the burritos....?

David Floyd

Yep, it woke me up <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />

Tabor

So what is the count for this week? 3?

1. Oregon
2. Washington
3. ?Georgia?

James86-951

My wife and I both woke up when it hit. The sound was wildest part. wah-wah-wah.....ok so it reads stupid. sorry. It was really cool since it didn't damage anything.

Porsh-uh

Are you serous? Man... this is the first I am hearing of this. Wow. I mean California I would expect, but Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee... that's crazy.

Brian McCoy

LOL, there was an earthquake? Everyone in my house slept right through it (I'm just now learning of it here - GF said she heard it on the news earlier). Must not of been to bad - nothing's even distured, and I have some things precariously stacked in the storage shed...

streckfu's

There is fault that runs through part of the central US. Obviously it's not very active. I remember a few quakes when I was a kid in St. Louis.

Dave951M

There are a number of faults, ever hear of the Charleston, SC earthquake in the early 1800's? By all accounts that one touched about a 7+ on the Richter scale. We hear about CA most often because they have more of them.

jabbadeznuts

Yep, didn't hurt a thing. But it was cool.

turbo944

Yes, there is a seriously set of fault lines running through the Eastern US which aren't very active, but have the potential to cause some severe devestation when another big one hits here. I think the biggest earthquake in the US (or right near the top) is being credited in TN or here somewhere in this region as it created Reelfoot Lake in TN and was I something well over a 9. Going up the Cumberland Plateau west of Knoxville is right on one of those fault lines. The whole thing got shoved vertically there. The ones in California are more active moving plates and have some big potential, but this one here is also very serious.

Didn't feel it here this morning although I was awake at that time....

Cheers and don't forget your earthquake insurance! ;-)

Mark Parker

The New Madrid fault is the one I hear about most. I think it's around the Mississippi River in the KY, TN, MO region.

iloveporsches

The fault running near Illinois isn't the most active, but when it goes, it goes! Once it went and shook church bells on the east coast! I don't remember exactly what year, but it was a while back.

Devia

That one you all felt this morning was only a 4.5, 3 miles deep. Yes, they do make a noise, don't feel bad for noticing!

New Madrid does go up to Illinois, and it's the most dangerous because it's the tecktonic plates shifting!

The last time it went serious (felt it go off once, while I lived in Chitown), it wrang the Liberty Bell, and made the Missouri river flow backwards, for 4 hours! That was about 150 years ago, and about a 9.0. They don't do proper earthquake codes in the houses in that region, so I fear for a lot of loss of life, when it goes again!

I've survived the Northridge earthquake, and what they don't tell you, the reason it was so scary after being tossed in the air twice, and the roller afterwards, is that the moon had just set, and the electricity was off! Even in my jammies and a broken leg, I was helping to turn off the gas lines...god, that hurt, but we had to make sure the buildings didn't blow up! My Porsche baby survived that unscathed barely - wall came down in front of her, but she was in her stall okay.

-"Earthquake" Julie

Ethan

When I was in school at Tennessee I learned that there are a lot of small quakes at all times. Most you can't even feel. Mountain ranges deal with plate tectonics, where two plates converge and the tension creates the quakes.