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Earthquake
Topic Started: Sep 3 2016, 09:07 AM (403 Views)
camaro marty
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BREAKING - U.S. Geological survey reports a 5.6 magnitude earthquake occurred at 7:02 a.m. about 8 miles northwest of Pawnee, Okla.I live in Winfield.Ks man did we fill it here ,was in a gas station and it shook the building good.
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Douglas
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Glad you are alright Marty, and hope and pray nobody was hurt in Oklahoma.
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webestang64
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That's a big'n. Glad you are safe. Here in St. Louis we get little tiny ones but with the New Madrid fault just under our feet, it's just a matter of time before boom!
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W Gee
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Wow... never would have guessed. Was just looking at earhquaketrack.com ...2505 quakes in Oklahoma last year and that doesn't include Kansas or surrounding states. You think quakes and automatically think California but this you guys up the too. Is it all blamed on fracking ?
Here on western Lake Ontario we have had 19 in the last 30 years, all little ones. We too are on a fault line they say is overdue for a major shift
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I hope everyone is alright. 5.6 will certainly rattle nerves.
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Milton Fox Racing
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Woke me up this morning and we are just north of dallas! The Pacific rim is aglow with just under 5.0 quakes today!!!!!!
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camaro marty
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USGS just updated it from a 5.6 to 5.8............
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Sep 3 2016, 10:57 AM
Wow... never would have guessed. Was just looking at earhquaketrack.com ...2505 quakes in Oklahoma last year and that doesn't include Kansas or surrounding states. You think quakes and automatically think California but this you guys up the too. Is it all blamed on fracking ?
Here on western Lake Ontario we have had 19 in the last 30 years, all little ones. We too are on a fault line they say is overdue for a major shift
A lot of folks don't know about the New Madrid fault, basically runs along the Mississippi River.

Last time it let go was early 1800's, I want to say 1812 (same year as the War?). They say the Mississippi ran backwards for 3 days, and church bells rang by themselves from the shaking as far away as Boston. It was one of the largest earthquakes recorded in the states, I think it was estimated around 8.0.

So yeah, plenty more faultlines around that nobody talks much about.
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Call me crazy, I grew up in Southern California and moved to Alaska from there in my 30s....and now live in Idaho. Idaho is considered one of the shaking-est states in the USA, but I've not felt a single bump in the 14 years I've lived here.

While I am particularly NOT fond of the very foundation of our security (a stable, non-cataclysmic earth surface) coming apart violently under my feet, something inside me MISSES feeling earthquakes every now and then.

Back in '04 I was in Idaho on a 3-year temporary assignment, still a resident of Fairbanks, AK, and I missed the exhilaration of feeling a 7.9 magnitude quake about 100 miles south of Fairbanks. When I got home the next week on a regular rotation back to home office, my displays on the ground floor of my house were generally in undisturbed condition. Upstairs, however, many of my Matchbox displays were off the shelves and on the floor, my computer was literally hanging off the desk by its cables (teetering on the edge at a precarious angle held there only by the cabling, not swinging), and several items were broken irreparably.

Why in the world I MISS that, I can't quite fathom!?
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Milton Fox Racing
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I usually use this for when someone asks about baby sitting, but maybe I should venture out into the the "Duct Tape and Velcro - Earthquake Protection Service"

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