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So Jack, did you feel it?
Freejack
Jake the Not-so-Wise
in Zocalo v2.0
The 5.2 quake woke us up, apparently coming from the Wabash fault line, centered on Bellmont Ill:[url]http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-21,GGLG:en&q=Bellmont%2c+IL[/url]
I'm sure to you California types, a 5.2 is nothing, but to us St. Louisans, its akin to an couple inches of snow in San Diego.
Jake
I'm sure to you California types, a 5.2 is nothing, but to us St. Louisans, its akin to an couple inches of snow in San Diego.
Jake
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Where are you at?
Jake
I remember a quake back in, what, 2002 was it? A 5.1 coming from New Madrid. I was still in Springfield at the time. I was sitting in my car in a parking garage on the 5th level and I thought it was the wind shaking my car, which it often did in that wind tunnel of a garage, but it went on for too long. Later I found out it had been a quake.
Bester, I live in New Town, just north of St. Charles.
Jake
That said, earthquakes in the middle US tend to effect a much broader geographic area then events in other locations. I am guessing that is due to the levelness of the area and the relative lack of large rock formations. Here is a good comparison of one of the New Madrid earthquakes to the 1994 LA quake: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Charleston1895.gif[/url]
Jake
We're built for such things, your not. That makes a huge difference. I expect a few buildings collapsed?
Funny story from the North Ridge quake: I was at my cousin's house. After it was over I ran to his room to see if him and his wife were ok.
He said yes,... Don't come in here. Someone doesn't ware much in bed.
We're built for such things, your not. That makes a huge difference. I expect a few buildings collapsed?
Funny story from the North Ridge quake: I was at my cousin's house. After it was over I ran to his room to see if him and his wife were ok.
He said yes,... Don't come in here. Someone doesn't ware much in bed.[/QUOTE]
I lawled
Here in the Delta regions like Memphis, it's comparible to the San Juaquin valley with silt and liquafaction. Further East in the Plateau regions we are a little more solid.
I was watching a show on the New Madrid fault complex. Seems it is an Ancient Cambrian zone about 5 miles down. Should have expected something with all the ground water and flooding recently. ;)
There's a reason they call torrential rains "earthquake weather". The USGS is also really big on Hydrologists in these states here.
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