Two Minor Earthquakes Shake Dallas-Fort Worth Area

Fox News ^ | 10/31/2008 | Fox News

[Dallas59]

DALLAS — Two minor earthquakes have shaken the Dallas-Fort Worth area, but no significant damage has immediately been reported.

The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a 2.5 magnitude was reported at 11:25 p.m. Thursday, centered in the Grand Prairie area.

The agency says a slightly stronger quake, at 3.0 magnitude, occurred at 12:01 a.m. Friday, centered in Irving.

Law enforcement agencies across northern Texas say they received some 911 calls from people who had felt the quakes.

[Dallas59]

I heard what I thought was an 18 wheeler rumble by but that was it.

[Red_Devil 232]

May be Louisiana conducted an underground nuke test?

[southlake_hoosier]

the obamanation voters coming in for tuesday

[Dallas59]

Or maybe what they’ve been saying on the radio about Mars is true!!!!

[HHFi]

I’m in Grand Prairie, and I work nights, so I’ve been up and here in the house at the computer all night. I never heard or felt a thing. If that’s what earthquakes are like, I’ll take one over a tornado any day.

[WestCoastGal]

If you were in a big earthquake you wouldn’t say that. :)

At least with tornadoes there is some warning.

I didn’t think Texas had any fault lines???

[dandelion]

Very odd... USGS reports an additional 3.0 quake due north east of OK City last night as well...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/32.42.-100.-90.php

[Rightly Biased]

There is the Balcones Fault that runs along i-35 between Austin and San Antonio

[dragnet2]

Two in a row is never good...Could be a foreshock for a massive shaker...Ground starts turning to liquefaction, an if it keeps shaken, the ground just turns oatmeal like substance, and buildings and houses just start bobbing around and they eventually start sinking into the goo.

[WestCoastGal]

Ohhhhhh great. LOL

[Just mythoughts]

Tooo close to the New Madrid fault line for my comfort.

[dfwgator]

Didn’t feel a thing.

[Deaf Smith]

Ping.

[kenth]

There are fault lines all over. There’s one up through the Arbuckle mountains just north into Oklahoma, near Davis and the surrounding area.

[Glenn]

PacMan Jones? Is that you?

[dfwgator]

It was probably from Mark Cuban throwing a temper tamptrum after seeing how bad the Mavericks are going to suck this year.

[Glenn]

seeing how bad the Mavericks are going to suck this year

I'm convinced Cuban loves misery.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

OK, I confess, it was me, after my dinner of Tex-Mex tacos and bean burritos, with extra hot sauce.

[conservative_guyz]

Iran testing a couple more nukes... nothing to see here... move along...

[CindyDawg]

I was looking at an earthquake graft awhile back and Texas gets a lot of them. They were listed as “man made” though :’)