I got woke up by an earthquake this morning!

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:30 pm

What a way to start my birthday. LOL. The epicenter was 40 miles north of my hometown and I felt it here, 4 hours away!

Video caught on one of the local morning news broadcasts here.

Pretty nutty!

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:31 pm

In friggin Indiana? Crazy!

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:35 pm

oh yeah...the new madrid fault is located in the midwest, down through the southern end of illinois, and this one was felt up to 450 miles away! i heard they felt it in chicago and even canada?

it's a pretty major fault, and it has been said that we are due for big one sometime soon.

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:06 pm

I knew there was one there, just didnt think it was gonna be active in our lifetimes... your sitting on one of the largest mountain ranges in the history of the world right there in the midwest, the Canadian Shield. That fault your talking about is the one that runs into Lake Michigan and up right through the town I grew up in along the Menomenee River near Upper Michigan. At one point in world history, that river was wider than the Atlantic Ocean about where it runs through Niagara, WI my hometown. I love the geology of the Midwest, very intresting shit. Theres old lava flows right by the house I grew up in up there. Can you tell I was a science nerd in school?

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:20 pm

kidlogic wrote:I knew there was one there, just didnt think it was gonna be active in our lifetimes... your sitting on one of the largest mountain ranges in the history of the world right there in the midwest, the Canadian Shield. That fault your talking about is the one that runs into Lake Michigan and up right through the town I grew up in along the Menomenee River near Upper Michigan. At one point in world history, that river was wider than the Atlantic Ocean about where it runs through Niagara, WI my hometown. I love the geology of the Midwest, very intresting shit. Theres old lava flows right by the house I grew up in up there. Can you tell I was a science nerd in school?

nerds rule!!!

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:31 pm

sapphic_beats wrote:
kidlogic wrote:I knew there was one there, just didnt think it was gonna be active in our lifetimes... your sitting on one of the largest mountain ranges in the history of the world right there in the midwest, the Canadian Shield. That fault your talking about is the one that runs into Lake Michigan and up right through the town I grew up in along the Menomenee River near Upper Michigan. At one point in world history, that river was wider than the Atlantic Ocean about where it runs through Niagara, WI my hometown. I love the geology of the Midwest, very intresting shit. Theres old lava flows right by the house I grew up in up there. Can you tell I was a science nerd in school?
nerds rule!!!

So does your new avitar! LOL!

FSTZ · Post by **FSTZ** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:34 pm

New Madrid Fault

pronounced mad-rid

not madrid

FSTZ · Post by **FSTZ** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:41 pm

It's the middle of the country, these scientists say, that could be at risk from the next "Big One"—and cities there aren't ready for the shock.

The New Madrid seismic zone—where Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee meet—lies in the middle of the North American tectonic plate, thousands of miles from the plate boundaries where earthquakes usually occur.

The zone has three to five faults stretching about 120 miles (193 kilometers).

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:44 pm

festa...did you feel it? reports are in that people felt it out yer way.

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:49 pm

I think I may have my faults (totally your fault, btw FSTZ) confused, but nontheless there is one up near the MI/WI border that runs through Lake Michigan and up into Canadia...

Oh, and are you sure its not Madrid instead of Madrid?

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:55 pm

kidlogic wrote:I think I may have my faults (totally your fault, btw FSTZ) confused, but nontheless there is one up near the MI/WI border that runs through Lake Michigan and up into Canadia...

Oh, and are you sure its not Madrid instead of Madrid?

no, it's definitely madrid.

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:09 pm

wow. people felt this fucker up to 900 miles away!?!?!?! http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/18/illino ... index.html

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:17 pm

wow!!! just had a pretty big aftershock.

that was the neatest thing ever.

and yes, i am a freak.

FSTZ · Post by **FSTZ** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:34 pm

sapphic_beats wrote:festa...did you feel it? reports are in that people felt it out yer way.

sheeeat I was way too drunk for some e-quake to disturb my sleep

but yeah, my co-workers felt it

growing up in so-cal, you get used to such events

FSTZ · Post by **FSTZ** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:39 pm

kidlogic wrote:Oh, and are you sure its not Madrid instead of Madrid?

and nevada missourah is pronounced neee vay duh not nevada

new mad-rid

*mad, like angry / rid, like get rid of* mad rid

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:39 pm

didn't know you were from so-cal. LOL.

just felt this one: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/rec ... 853165.php

FSTZ · Post by **FSTZ** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:42 pm

san diego baby!

I got woke up by an earthquake this morning!

I got woke up by an earthquake this morning!

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