Atlanta Shaking?

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[Robert A Cook PE]

So why is the house shaking... Felt like a long 4-5 earthquake at 5:02

[LowOiL]

Thanks for your chart Error99. I mentioned I thought it was centered around Mentone in my earlier post. I was just judging from phone calls to relatives though. Nice to have some stastics to back it up now.

[hmmmmm]

How so, the Missouri too?

[hmmmmm]

How so, the Missouri too?

[FreedomPoster]

I just made that exact comment on another board - "I'm sure no big deal for CA folks, but a *very* strange event for Atlanta / East of Mississippi River types."

[rebel]

This is about 15 miles southeast of me!!

== PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Version #6: This report supersedes any earlier reports of this event.
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.


A light earthquake occurred at 8:59:36 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time on Tuesday, April 29, 2003. The magnitude 4.5 event occurred 7 km (5 miles) ESE of Mentone, AL. The hypocentral depth was 5 km ( 3 miles).

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Magnitude 4.5 - body magnitude (Mb)
Time Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 8:59:36 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 5:59:36 AM (ADT) - Atlantic
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 4:59:36 AM (EDT) - Eastern
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 3:59:36 AM (CDT) - Central
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 2:59:36 AM (MDT) - Mountain
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 1:59:36 AM (PDT) - Pacific
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:59:36 AM (AKDT) - Alaska
Monday, April 28, 2003 at 10:59:36 PM (HST) - Hawaii
Distance from Mentone, AL - 7 km (5 miles) ESE (109 degrees)
Menlo, GA - 8 km (5 miles) NNW (341 degrees)
Valley Head, AL - 10 km (6 miles) E (99 degrees)
Rome, GA - 44 km (27 miles) NW (318 degrees)
Chattanooga, TN - 59 km (37 miles) SSW (201 degrees)

Coordinates 34 deg. 33.0 min. N (34.550N)
85 deg. 30.2 min. W ( 85.504W)
Depth 5 km (3.1 miles)
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 7.9 km (4.9 miles); depth fixed by location program
Location Quality
Parameters Nst= 86, Nph= 86, Dmin=83.6 km, Rmss=1.72 sec, Erho=7.9 km, Erzz=0 km, Gp=68.4 degrees
Event ID# usteak
Additional Information 2-degree map
Shaded relief map and other info from NEIC
Topo map centered at earthquake (This link takes you offsite. Not all regions have topo maps available.)
Did you feel it?

[LowOiL]

Kinda cool tho isn't it? It is a bit of a rush when the world starts rolling....

When the wife wakes up screaming, it most certainly a rush. Thought a tree hit the house at first.

[LowOiL]

Kinda cool tho isn't it? It is a bit of a rush when the world starts rolling....

When the wife wakes up screaming, it is most certainly a "rush". Thought a tree hit the house at first.

[piasa]

I know that this town just had all 8 police officers zoom by a few minutes ago heading NORTH from Fort Payne.

That could be the Dunkin' Donuts grand opening...

[Keith in Iowa]

>>How so, the Missouri too?

It's what they said on the tv - the really big one on the New Madrid fault had both rivers running backwards...

[hmmmmm]

My most humble apologies for the double post!

[FreepLady]

Im in Madison, AL and woke us up too. Major shake...thought it was a huge airplane going over!

[miner89]

Ditto,

I've got a wife on bedrest due to pregnancy complications. About the time I woke up and figured out what it was she was calling me in a panic from the other room.

[AntiGuv]

No doubt a lot of people recall those big 1999 earthquakes in Turkey & Greece. I happened to be in Istanbul for the Turkish one and in Athens for the Greek one. That was something else, for sure!!

[Robert A Cook PE]

No... They're wrong.

Just the Mississippi flowed north, and only for a short while to fill the new lakes, and just in that region.

Missouri connection is further north, up past St Louis a few miles.

[hmmmmm]

I hope you're not in for a repeat!

[LowOiL]

I too heard the largest earthquake in American was along the Madrid fault. Rivers ran backwards for two days.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hope she (and the baby) will do okay.

Nothing fell out during the earthquake, did it? 8<)

[hmmmmm]

I found that odd because the MO runs back on itself at St. Charles at all times, the New Madrid Fault isn't a factor.

[LowOiL]

I have been wondering about after shocks? Surely we are due one about now...

[miner89]

Well I almost fell out of bed, but since I'm sleeping on a mattress in the floor (so as not to disturb the expectin mama) it was a short trip....