Largest earthquake in 35 years hits Arkansas

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GREENBRIER, Ark. – The central Arkansas town of Greenbrier has been plagued for months by hundreds of small earthquakes, and after being woken up by the largest quake to hit the state in 35 years, residents said Monday they're unsettled by the increasing severity and lack of warning

[GOPJ]

Lack of warning?

Yeah, months of hundreds of small earthquakes isn't enough for some people - this is 'the land of Clinton' after all...

[MARTIAL MONK]

Is that even proper English?

According to Webster's New Arkinsaw Dictionary it should be "woked".

[Zakeet]

According to Webster's New Arkinsaw Dictionary it should be "woked".

According to Webster's New Texas Dictionary, any verb of that type pertaining to Arkinsaw should be "wanked."

[Sacajaweau]

A biggie happened 35 years ago, too....and likely after a lot of little ones...

I see a pattern...And it has nothing to do with global warming or drilling or what we eat.

[mountainlion]

Earthquakes in diverse places? Lets see, where did I read that?

[PATRIOT1876]

*Lack of warning?*

Well, you see, the red sign that pops out of the ground and declares, “Small earthquakes are a harbinger of large earthquakes to come” was written in Swahili and spelt out in Chinese characters.....

[Izzy Dunne]

And it has nothing to do with global warming or drilling or what we eat.

Of course not.

This fault originates in Texas.

Somewhere near Crawford.

So, of course it's...

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BUSH'S FAULT!

[sasquatch]

woked.
Isn’t that what you do to food in a big bowl?

[liberalh8ter]

This wouldn’t be the first time that something that happened in Clinton territory was blamed on Bush.

[FourPeas]

It may seem funny so some FReepers, but the people in the area whose homes are being damaged by the repeated shaking don’t find it nearly as humorous. In this economy, it’s even less so.

It’s worth noting, too, that at the time the earthquake happened, the area was getting ready for a very fast moving severe storm to come through, one with winds expected to be 50-60mph.

[NeverForgetBataan]

Some farmer, up in Guy, is going to be surprsied one day to see a little smoke coming from a crack in the ground. Then the
next day it will be a little bigger.

In a week he will be told that he’s the proud owner of a new volcano.

That actually happened in Mexico in 1943. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin

Prolly won’t happen in AR, but would be interesting.

[kevinm13]

Isn’t 35 years the amount of time since it snowed in San Francisco (which happened a few days ago)? What goes around comes around.

[Kenny Bunk]

This is a wee bit ominous, as this is activity close to the New Madrid Fault, and locals have been reporting minor ruptures in road surfaces, and in fields for a while now.

The last big one was exactly 200 years ago and it changed the course of the Mississippi, among other incredibly devastating effects. Fortunately, very few people lived there at the time. The next one has a lot bigger targets!

[wizzardude]

and after being woken up...

Is that even proper English?

Outside of the ending a clause with a preposition, yes it is

[charlie72]

It would be nice to be woken up.
I’m usually woken down.

[Kenny Bunk]

"Woke," "Woken," "I was awoke (n)", etc. is a perfectly acceptable regional variation of English as it is spoke and understood in some of the nation's cleanest and friendliest mobile home communities. "Then I woke up." Perfectly OK. Seriously.

"I has ran by there many-a-time .... we have went there of-ten, I don't know and he don't know neither." Not so OK.

Country went to linguistic hell after Sherwin Cody died, just get a tattoo and meet me over to Wal-Mart. I heard they has some real bargains this week.

[MsLady]

LOL!!!

[MsLady]

They’ve been having a bunch of small one’s right outside of Little Rock, for weeks. Wonder if that one fault, can’t remember the name, is going to go? You know the one that caused the 8.? back in the early 1800’s. It shook so hard it made the Mississippi flow backwards and cracked foundations in DC.

[Elle Bee]

On December 16, 1811, the 400 residents of New Madrid, Missouri, were shaken out of their beds at two in the morning by a violent earthquake. Huge cracks split the ground. The waters of the Mississippi rose and fell like a great tide. Giant waves rose up and swept north, giving the impression that the river was actually flowing backwards. Boats along the river were engulfed, capsized, and theeair crews drowned.

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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[cocamoshaffy]

They have not stopped drilling on any of the old wells. It is my opinion that they may not be the sole cause but I’m sure that they do play a part in all of this.
I live near the area where the quake happened and it is not a good feeling when these thing happen all of a sudden and shake your whole house. By all of a sudden I mean just that. Yes they have been going on for years all over the world and not just in Arkansas.
It is a scary feeling especially if you are not used to them. I am originally from PA. No earthquakes or tornados there. I’ll take snow over either of them but love it here and will just have to put up with them I guess.