Posted on 08/09/2020 5:26:24 AM PDT by Grey182
2020-08-09 12:07:37 (UTC)36.484°N 81.105°W5.0 km depth
For the record, the mountains and ridges around Sparta are where many many of America’s Christmas trees are grown.
In fact, they actually export the trees abroad
I noticed that. Very rare for this region.
The biggest I had experienced was the Northridge Quake in the early 90’s.
I had a home in the Arizona desert with a 13ft deep pool.
I also had a waterbed. That sucker rolled through and damn near pitched me out of the bed. I went to look at the pool and it was sloshing from side to side. I thought LA was gone.
That one was scary.
That all depends on where you are. If you are on sandy, water soaked ground it is like being on quick sand.
I was in Milpitas for the Loma Prieta 'quake, our building was twisting and waving, I got up from my desk, crossed the main corridor to fab, opened the door and told my two Vietnamese technicians "Didi! Didi!" which is Vietnamese for "Get out! Get out!"
I've never been to Vietnam. I don't speak Vietnamese.
They looked at me very strangely for months afterwards...
Felt in Greer, SC - 4 hours from epicenter. Bed shook for about 7-8 seconds.
Who had, ‘Earthquake in South Carolina’ on their ‘2020 Disaster Bingo’ card?
I’m right up here at the epicenter. VERY strong boom followed by shaking for a few moments. The house actually felt as though it dropped briefly. Very unusual for here. Sent security cam video to several Charlotte news outlets who reached out.
I felt it North of Raleigh. 10-15 seconds of a gentle rolling motion on a north-south axis. Not worth getting our of my chair.
Let us know when fox 46 will play it.
I have a cousin who slept through the Northridge ‘quake, one mile from the epicenter, in the top bunk!
(They were on a node, devastation a mile away in both directions, but they only had a little water sloshed out of their pool.)
I was in Cupertino for the Loma Prieta. Scary as hell. We moved a year later.
I’ll never know. Cut the cord years ago...
I’m an hour from Sparta and never felt a thing.
I am visiting in Gaston County west of Charlotte and the whole house shook violently. Surprised pipes didn’t burst.
Well, if they “slept” through it that was one hell of a night.
That quake was a roller big time.
My nephew playing water polo in Palo Alto got thrown outta the pool and broke an arm in that quake
Somewhere to your south is a fault line that the quake did not cross is my guess. That fault may lie along the I-81 valley
Thats what I got, couple of jolts from ground on up.
I knew it was a quake as everything moved.
Its kinda free here.
They won’t email you back?
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