Posted on 09/06/2020 12:22:13 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A small earthquake rattled the Florida Panhandle this morning, according to data from the United States Geological Survey.
USGS data shows the magnitude 4.0 quake happened just after 11 a.m. Eastern time and was centered about two miles northwest of Mount Carmel, Florida, a town just north of Pensacola along the Florida-Alabama border.
A 4.0-magnitude quake on the Richter scale is considered a “light” earthquake with noticeable shaking of indoor objects and rattling noises, but zero to minimal damage.
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Pretty small quake!
Ping
Everything shakes, sitting on 1000 ft of sand, then 1000 ft of aquifer.
When they were dropping the MOAB on the Eglin test range, now that was an earthquake
About 100 miles from me (Biloxi area) - never felt a thing.
Earthquakes under sand, no matter how small, turn the sand to liquid. A relatively small quake in CA would translate into a pretty significant disaster in FL.
Could be all alligators and boa constrictors fighting.
We’ve had falling chads that caused more damage.
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