Posted on 10/31/2008 5:43:16 AM PDT by 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.
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It's Fredhead's "fault"...
Ping to #35! Batten the hatches!
Sorry, not my fault. I’m in Virginia, not Texas.
Them's fightin' words, you varmit!
You OK?
WE ARE !! :)
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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.
I reckon the airfield outside Cleburne is doing all right. But you might want to keep an eye on these:
Below is a ranking of all Dallas buildings above 250 feet in height.
1 Bank of America Plaza 921 ft. 72 1985 JPJ Architects
2 Renaissance Tower** 886 ft. 56 1974 HOK
3 Bank One Center 787 ft. 60 1987 Johnson/Burgee
4 Chase Tower 738 ft. 55 1987 SOM
5 Fountain Place 720 ft. 62 1986 I.M. Pei & Partners
6 Trammell Crow Tower 686 ft. 50 1984 SOM
7 1700 Pacific 655 ft. 50 1983 WZMH Group
8 Thanksgiving Tower 645 ft. 50 1982 HKS Architects
9 Energy Plaza 629 ft. 49 1983 I.M. Pei & Partners
10 Elm Place 625 ft. 52 1965 George L. Dahl
11 Republic Center Tower II 598 ft. 50 1964 Harrell & Hamilton
12 One AT&T Plaza 580 ft. 37 1984
13 Lincoln Plaza 579 ft. 45 1984 HKS Architects
14 Cityplace Center East* 560 ft. 42 1989
15 Reunion Tower 560 ft. --- 1978 Welton Becket & Associates
16 Adam's Mark Hotel Center Tower 550 ft. 42 1958 Welton Becket & Associates
17 2001 Bryan 512 ft. 40 1973 Neuhaus & Taylor
18 Harwood Center (formerly Olympia & York Tower) 483 ft. 36 1982 WZMH Group
19 KMPG Centre (formerly Maxus Energy Tower) 481 ft. 34 1980
20 San Jacinto Tower 456 ft. 33 1982 John Carl Warnecke with Beran & Shelmire
21 Republic Center Tower I*** 452 ft. 36 1954 Harrison & Abramovitz
22 Renaissance Hotel* 451 ft. 29 1983
23 Adam's Mark Hotel North Tower 448 ft. 31 1980 Welton Becket & Associates
24 One Dallas Centre 448 ft. 30 1979 I.M. Pei & Partners
25 One Main Place 445 ft. 34 1968 SOM
26 1600 Pacific 434 ft. 31 1964
27 Mercantile National Bank Building**** 430 ft. 31 1942 Walter Ahlschlager & Donald Nelson
28 Magnolia Hotel 400 ft. 27 1923 Sir Alfred Bossom
29 Fidelity Union Tower 400 ft. 33 1959
30 Southwestern Bell Toll Building 372 ft. 22
31 Mercantile Dallas Building 360 ft. 22 1954
32 Adam's Mark Hotel South Tower 352 ft. 38 1958 Welton Becket & Associates
33 Univision Center 344 ft. 26 1983
34 Hyatt Regency Hotel 343 ft. 30 1978 Welton Becket & Associates
36 1200 Main (formerly Main Tower) 336 ft. 26 1973
37 Dallas Galleria Tower* 333 ft. 26
38 Plaza of The Americas North Tower 332 ft. 25 1979
38 Plaza of The Americas South Tower 332 ft. 25 1979
40 Center City Plaza (formerly the Adolphus Tower) 327 ft. 27 1954
41 Park Central No. 3* 327 ft. 20
42 Three AT&T Plaza 326 ft. 24 1927, 1964
43 Davis Building 323 ft. 21 1925
44 Manor House 319 ft. 26 1966
45 Preston Tower 316 ft. 29 1966
46 Tower Petroleum Building 315 ft. 23 1931 Mark Lemmon
47 Adolphus Hotel Center Tower 312 ft. 23 1926 Sir Alfred Bossom
47 SBC East Dallas 310 ft. 20
47 Old Penney Regional Credit Building* 310 ft. 23 1975
48 Fairmont Hotel 308 ft. 24 1968
49 The Metropolis (formerly 511. N. Akard) 303 ft. 17 1957
49 Adolphus Hotel 303 ft. 20 1912 Barnett, Hayes, & Barnett
51 Santa Fe Building 300 ft. 20 1926 Lloyd R. Whitson
51 Two Turtle Creek Village* 300 ft. 18 1972
I think you are right. Geologically we sit over a fulcrum range of paleozoics or maybe even precambrian, at near the depth of the quake, if one of our geologists could chime in.
I’m not looking forward to the seismic design changes, myself, but we need them. Lateral force is lateral force, and we have it in Texas. We had been in zone “0”.
But then I would have felt it. And I didn't feel a thang. ;-)
(For once...)
Wednesday morning at about 3:30 am, a deer triggered our sensor lights. The deer are well programed. All I have to do is open our back deck door and they run away.
After I did the door trick, I got back into bed. My wife never fully awakes during these events beside elbowing me in the ribs and murmuring, “Deer”!
As I laid my head on the pillow I felt a tremor. Then, there was another one. My wife asked me what was wrong, and told her we just had two earthquakes.
Her response,”Wake me when the house goes off the foundations!”
The next morning I checked the site I posted here, and we had two tremors over 3. about 14 miles away at that time.
My beloved aunt lives in a nursing home not far from my home. Her brain is very sharp, but she has a debilitating back injury that confines her mostly to a wheelchair. There is a black Jamaican aide there who administers the lunch time meds - mostly pain pills for my aunt. She told my aunt that she needed to early vote for Obama, and she, the aide, would bring in paper ballots so that my aunt and others could vote for him. My aunt has all her brains and she told her off - and this is the worker that administers part of her meds.
I blew up when my aunt told me this, and demanded to file a formal complaint with the nursing home. They took action, and though they didn't fire the aide, they shut her up good.
I took my aunt yesterday down to the local early voting site, and they were so kind. The place was loaded with early voters, but because my aunt was in a wheelchair they brought her to the front of the voting line and she voted straight Republican.
My question is if other nursing homes are having this problem?
I’m trying to figure out the age of that list. I thought Adam’s Mark had changed into Sheraton before SBC changed into AT&T. And what is BankOne tower these days?
** Must be all the voters heading to the polls. **
LOL! :^D
** Geez a bunch of Whining Earthquake Woosies in Texas. **
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Yeah, but just watch out fer them infamous Texas Tornados! :)
** You OK? **
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Oh, yeah.
Ah slept thru the whole thang.
I never git no fun! :)
ha!
Yeah.
Give ‘em HE**S, Belles!! :)
Kudos for your auntie!
And give her a BIG ole Texas hug fer me. :)
That is done all the time out in California.
The Rats prey on nursing home patients, locked psych residential places, homes for Adults with downs syndrome and probably places for Alzheimer’s patients.
In the old days, these patients/residents were rounded up in vans and mini buses and brought to the polling places. In the mid term election after GW was elected, I parked my OJ Simpson Bronco close to a couple of polling places and parked my butt on the hood with my camera.
I had two of the mini buses pull away away without unloading any patients when the drivers saw me with my camera pointed at the bus and them.
At the second place, I had a cop come up and say I was harassing the voters and I had to move back 150’ from the door of the polling place. I said that I wasn’t campaigning and there were no stickers on my vehicle. After some staring down, I said I would move 150’ away and still use my telephoto lens. The cop smiled and said that would be okay, and he informed the mini bus driver, that I was legal and staying with my camera and a long range lens. The van then left, after the cop left. All I did was to sot on the hood, and focused the camera on the bus and him. As the bus pulled away, I got a lot of catcalls and fingers from what were probable illegals. When I acted like I was taking pictures of them, they would drop down and out of sight of the window.
Wow... did you notice it?
No, I didn’t notice it. And I was UP and awake when it
occurred. Irving and Grand Prairie are about 20 miles
from me, too. Very small scale quakes. We’ll never have
a big shake here due to the structure below us here in
Texas. No major stress situation like in Kalifornee ...
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