Posted on 08/06/2011 10:06:45 PM PDT by Windflier
I just felt a hard jolt. The whole house shook. It felt something like a hard bump. My whole family felt it.
Anybody else in North Texas feel it?
USGS just reported a 2.6 magnitude shake in Dallas. That's pretty small. You wouldn't feel something that small as far away as Plano.
There ain't a cloud in the sky, and we didn't hear anything, either. USGS says that Dallas had a 2.6 seismic event. I'm betting that's what I felt.
No you don't! I'm from SoCal, and a 2.6 shaker isn't even worth small talk out there.
I would advise against that...its dark outside. Wait till sun rises you might find evidence of zombies. I am in Houston and will keep you informed if I see anything from the south. Be careful.
That article said that there were two kinds of houses: houses which need their foundations repaired, and houses which have already had their foundations repaired.
I am a native Southern Californian and I do know that I have felt some significant jolts from small quakes that happen to be right under us! I remember feeling a what I thought was a larger quake, only to find out that is was only a 2.0 but directly under our house!
I thought jolt was a soda drink with lots of caffeine and tremors was a movie that show cased a great game room.
Magnitude 2.6
Date-Time
Sunday, August 07, 2011 at 04:45:30 UTC
Saturday, August 06, 2011 at 11:45:30 PM at epicenter
Location 32.764°N, 96.915°W
Depth 0 km (~0 mile) set by location program
Region NORTHERN TEXAS
Distances 11 km (6 miles) WSW of Dallas, Texas
34 km (21 miles) ESE of Watauga, Texas
34 km (21 miles) SW of Plano, Texas
288 km (178 miles) NNE of AUSTIN, Texas
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 13.9 km (8.6 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 9, Nph= 9, Dmin=99.8 km, Rmss=1.08 sec, Gp=155°,
M-type=”Nuttli” surface wave magnitude (mbLg), Version=1
Source
USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID us2011phak
Bet you're pretty close to the epicenter of the little quake.
True enough, but most folks never experience one right smack dab at the epicenter.
I remember feeling the Sylmar quake of 1971 at our house in the southern part of the county. We were more than 40 miles away from the epicenter, and it shook every stud and rafter in our house. Even the electrical transmission towers out back were swaying back and forth.
ZERO depth?????
Really?
I don’t think I have ever heard of that.
That article would be right. I've yet to see a house out here of any age that didn't have some sign of foundation cracking or failure.
I lived in Sylmar when that quake hit.
I will never forget it.
Didn’t have running water for a whole week.
No gas for a week and a half.
Back then, most people thought we were being bombed.
I guess so. USGS said the epicenter was 6 miles WSW of Dallas. I'm in Irving (which is just west of Dallas), so that would put me just a bit north of the event.
Yep, the old Freep is pretty amazing, isn't it? Got my answer in no time.
Oh yes, how well I remember the Sylmar quake. We lived in Eagle Rock and most all of the older homes here lost fireplaces, and many like us, lost our porch.
Pretty weird, huh? Perhaps they just didn't have data for that parameter, so the default is zero.
I don't think that anyone who was in L.A. county on that day will ever forget it. I lucked out in '94 and was in Baton Rouge when the Northridge quake hit.
I was actually en route back to Cali from Florida. Got home a few days later and construction work had exploded. It didn't stop for years afterward.
Ewing Oil Company must be doing some fracking in the area. It was fracking that was blamed for those earthquakes in central Arkansas.
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