Earthquakes, Anyone?…..
The earthquake in Haiti got me to thinking….. There’s a small town called Jones about 4 miles from where I live….. Usually they have 2 to 3 small earthquakes a year – about a 2.0 to 2.5, but, in the last 3 months, they have had over 30, yes 30 earthquakes!….. The highest being a 3.3….. That one shook houses where I live…. I was visiting Robo at the time and it felt like something was trying to push the house over from the South…. There was no noise, except for the walls creaking and loose items shaking….. You could feel the air pressure push on you….. It was weird…. I can image a 7.0!…. Man, I feel for those people…..
I remember that Seattle had one some years back that damaged buildings downtown…. Jek and Anon probably remember that one….
So-o-o, are we facing an outbreak of earthquakes?….. Is Mother Nature going to squash us from the inside to get even?……
January 14th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Seattle has a lot of earthquakes. It looks like we’ve had four in the last two weeks—I think that’s kind of quiet.
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/recenteqs/Maps/Seattle_Region.html
In the ten years I’ve been here, I’ve only felt two of them. One was the 6.8 Nisqually quake. It was quite a ride. I felt the other, but just barely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisqually_earthquake
It’s worth pointing out that a 2.5 release almost 6 *million* times less energy than a 7.0. These logarithmic scales are deceiving.
Oh, and if you really want to follow these, the USGS has lots of info. They even have GEORSS enabled RSS feeds you can subscribe to.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/
January 14th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
No fun being poor in a quake when you live and work in shitty concrete structures.
We’ve dirtied Mother’s clean floors but that’s no cause for a shaken.
I survived the Nisqually quake. Waiting for the really Big One, the 9 that’s overdue . Come visit.
January 14th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
All sorts of weather related phenomena lately. Record cold, snow, flooding, earthquakes. However since there is no such thing as global warming (tic), sort of makes you wonder, huh?
January 14th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Below are images of the “Latest Earthquakes in the USA – Last 7 days” from Zook’s last link. They even got Maine right.
Look at that lonely blip in OK. That must be you MR!
January 15th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
It’s me, It’s me!….. You noticed that’s a big blue square in Oklahoma, Jek, and it’s right over my head…. I guess I should have kept my mouth shut as it just got bigger, today at 9:18 am we had a 4.0 followed by a 3.8 at 9:30 am….. Same location – around the town of Jones….. They are unable to explain why we are having so many or why they are getting stronger….. They are supposedly moving in more seismic equipment before committing to a firm answer….. They say the biggest earthquake ever in Oklahoma was a 5.5, and, that we can’t have a 7.0 here because we don’t have the right plates in the ground below us….. I don’t know whether to believe them or not…… Anyone know if you can get earthquake insurance?…… Still shakin’ in Oklahoma……
January 15th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Jeez, MR! What the hell are you up to? Wikipedia tells me that a 4.0 is equivalent to a small atomic bomb. Is there something you’d like to tell us?
January 15th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
MR, I’m sure PDB has his “safe spot” burrowed out. Maybe, just maybe, if you are nice, you can have him make room for you.
January 16th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Got two theories – The earthquakes picked up in frequency and strength about the same time as the Seattle Sonics became the Oklahoma City Thunder….. There are hard-core Seattle fans out there transporting and planting them under us for revenge….. The other theory is that PD Bob has a secret underground lab in the Jones area and is conducting high explosive experiments….. I’ve grilled him, but, he won’t admit to anything, even when I brought up the fact that he had shown up smelling like cordite and gunpowder on more than one occasion…… He did state that if I would stop with the questions, he would predict the exact time of the next quake and allow me in his bunker for protection….
I don’t know if it was as strong as a small atomic bomb, but, it did knock things of the walls and was felt as far away as Tulsa (100 miles from ground zero)…… Any word on insurance?…..