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Largest earthquake in 35 years hits Arkansas
Yahoo/AP ^

Posted on 03/01/2011 6:07:38 AM PST by nuconvert

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

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To: WakeUpAndVote
Lack of warning?

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

21 posted on 03/01/2011 6:25:47 AM PST by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
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To: reagan_fanatic
Is that even proper English?

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

22 posted on 03/01/2011 6:32:44 AM PST by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: MARTIAL MONK
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."

23 posted on 03/01/2011 6:36:47 AM PST by Zakeet (Disclosure: Long on trees, long on hemp, short on Libtards)
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To: nuconvert
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.

24 posted on 03/01/2011 6:38:50 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: nuconvert

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


25 posted on 03/01/2011 6:43:21 AM PST by mountainlion
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To: WakeUpAndVote
*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.....

26 posted on 03/01/2011 6:44:15 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Sacajaweau
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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...wait for it...

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BUSH'S FAULT!

27 posted on 03/01/2011 6:45:01 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Zakeet

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


28 posted on 03/01/2011 6:45:11 AM PST by sasquatch
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To: Izzy Dunne

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


29 posted on 03/01/2011 6:56:45 AM PST by liberalh8ter
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To: nuconvert

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.


30 posted on 03/01/2011 7:12:34 AM PST by FourPeas
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To: nuconvert

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.


31 posted on 03/01/2011 7:26:51 AM PST by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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To: nuconvert

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.


32 posted on 03/01/2011 7:28:43 AM PST by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: nuconvert
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!

33 posted on 03/01/2011 7:30:10 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (Odd, but I never had to ask, "Who, or what exactly is Dwight Eisenhower?")
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To: reagan_fanatic
and after being woken up...
Is that even proper English?
Outside of the ending a clause with a preposition, yes it is
34 posted on 03/01/2011 7:51:00 AM PST by wizzardude
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To: wizzardude

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


35 posted on 03/01/2011 8:47:42 AM PST by charlie72
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To: charlie72
"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.

36 posted on 03/01/2011 9:27:39 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (Odd, but I never had to ask, "Who, or what exactly is Dwight Eisenhower?")
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To: Izzy Dunne

LOL!!!


37 posted on 03/01/2011 10:03:08 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: WakeUpAndVote

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.


38 posted on 03/01/2011 10:06:27 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: MsLady
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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39 posted on 03/01/2011 10:18:23 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Izzy Dunne

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.


40 posted on 03/01/2011 10:49:54 AM PST by cocamoshaffy (lol :) yankee/southern yankee)
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