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Updated: 48 earthquakes rock Faulkner County
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| 10/11/10
| Stephanie Fischer
Posted on 10/11/2010 10:28:17 PM PDT by FromLori
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To: Doomonyou
Just hope you don’t get hit with a massive horizontal shift...it’s like crack the whip...There is no warning...It’s like ridding in the back of a pickup, when the driver just slams on the brakes, then punches it again.
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posted on
10/11/2010 11:11:56 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
To: dragnet2
Jog my memory: wasn’t the largest earthquake in North America a 10+ along the New Madrid fault in the 1830’s?
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posted on
10/11/2010 11:24:56 PM PDT
by
PAMadMax
(Islam is a disease....)
To: dr_lew
“... as long as we’re OK in the ‘burbs.”
What burb are you in? I’m in Downers Grove.
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posted on
10/11/2010 11:31:31 PM PDT
by
flaglady47
(When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
To: PAMadMax
The winter of 1811-12, iirc
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posted on
10/11/2010 11:35:40 PM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.)
To: PAMadMax
Biggest ones in the 48 States were 3 or 4 (don't recall which) during the winter of 1811-12 near New Madrid, Mo., estimated from 7.7 to 8.4 on the old Richter scale (no way to measure them back then). The Mississippi ran backwards, church bells rang in Boston, and it created Reelfoot lake across the border in Tenn. IIRC, the New Madrid fault system is different from the California faults by lying horizontally instead of vertically, or something like that. If that happened today, St. Louis & Memphis would suffer tremendous damage.
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posted on
10/11/2010 11:43:45 PM PDT
by
Southbound
("A liar in public life is worse than a full-paid-up Communist, and I don't care who he is." - HST)
To: Southbound
It's one year after two New Madrid earthquakes have devastated the Mississippi Valley.
Battalions of foreign peackeepers are occupying Tennessee, at the invitation of the President. Phil Carson, (from "Enemies Foreign And Domestic"), and three strangers are hiding in a well-stocked cave, which is a guerrilla fighter's lair. Across the region Kazakh "contract peacekeepers" are wiping out the last remaining American holdouts, who have rejected the federal government's order to abandon their homes and move to "relocation centers."
This scene is in the middle of the novel.
CLICK on COVER to read excerpt from FReeper Travis McGee
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posted on
10/12/2010 12:02:27 AM PDT
by
Elle Bee
To: FromLori
SO much for the “Who, What, WHERE and When rule.”
To: maine-iac7
If you do not want to read the whole thread, see 11.
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posted on
10/12/2010 12:28:35 AM PDT
by
tdscpa
To: FromLori
The USGS is looking into why were having them and why there have been so many.I should have thought that New May-drid, huh?
You mean that the USGS hasn't answered this question in the last 198 years? Not long enough, since the last really big one?
Maybe if they didn't go running off all over the world every time there's an earthquake, they might have the time...
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posted on
10/12/2010 12:54:44 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
To: PAMadMax
Jog my memory: wasnt the largest earthquake in North America a 10+ along the New Madrid fault in the 1830s?1811-1812
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posted on
10/12/2010 12:58:22 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
To: Publius6961
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:11:27 AM PDT
by
sandboxshooter
(Iraq, Afghanistan, War)
To: FromLori
There are OTHER faults in Arkansas. There are two distinct "mountain ranges" as well.
Not everything there involves the New Madrid fault.
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posted on
10/12/2010 2:31:20 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
To: flaglady47
Wow, brings back childhood memories. Born in Berwyn, lived in Lisle for several years.
Used to walk across the fields underneath the high tension power wires and reach the outskirts of Downers Grove, some strip mall shopping centers located on...Maple Drive? Too long to remember for sure.
That was while 8-9 years old, me and my buddy Jimmy West. Funny how times have changed, no way would kids that young be allowed to go that far alone today.
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posted on
10/12/2010 3:57:09 AM PDT
by
tongue-tied
("Never use more than four words to say 'I don't know'")
To: FromLori
The reason I think its of interest is the New Madrid Fault zone you would almost think its waking up and a major quake there would be really devastating. That fault line has minor quakes every now and then. It really isn't "waking up."
Quite often there would be a seismic event from New Madrid and all the ICBMs would go into Memory or PIGA Leveling mode. The crews on duty knew exactly what had happened because the missiles would report all at once.
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posted on
10/12/2010 4:01:02 AM PDT
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: FromLori
where is “Faulkner County” and why is this important to anyone?
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posted on
10/12/2010 4:09:06 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus)
To: MediaMole
The Fayetteville Shale gas drilling is centered around Conway/Faulkner County.
There have been quite a few earthquakes in Texas centered around drilling the Barnett Shale. Except, in Texas, they say, it has to do with the disposal wells not the gas wells
To: FromLori
I you can't include info on which State (or preferably, county or Lat/Long/UTM), please try to indicate which continent applies...
In seismology, coordinates have value.
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posted on
10/12/2010 6:11:24 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: TXnMA
Or you could read the article if your interested and find out or skip it if your not
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posted on
10/12/2010 7:27:47 AM PDT
by
FromLori
(FromLori)
To: Publius6961
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posted on
10/12/2010 7:33:31 AM PDT
by
PAMadMax
(Islam is a disease....)
To: TXnMA; FromLori
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posted on
10/12/2010 11:44:39 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(lame and ill-informed post)
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