[maine-iac7]

” This was the first of three magnitude-8 earthquakes and thousands of aftershocks to rock the region that winter. “

“that winter” was 1811-12 (still not out of the Little Ice Age which went to 1850) -

The place, Mississppi Valley.

It rang church bells - in BOSTON! - and was felt in Canada.

They say it will happen again. “Some scientists claim that the so-called “Big One” will not happen on the West Coast at all. Rather, a surprising number of them argue that the next sizable shake might occur along the New Madrid Fault, probably by the year 2010”

http://www.essortment.com/all/newmadrideart_pvm.htm

[winoneforthegipper]

I read last year of a fault line in Tennessee, bigfoot redfoot or something like that, which has close to 100 micro tremors a day. Far out shaking the New Madrid.

Non-subduction zone quakes to me are more fascinating.

[winoneforthegipper]

Did you feel this one?

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_tgbh_l.html

just happened

Magnitude 3.9 - ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORDER REGION, CANADA
2010 February 28 03:51:22 UTC