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

[hmmmmm]

:) I hope she's doing well! I've a feeling that low pressure weather fronts will have more impact on your pregnancy than earthquakes.

[LowOiL]

Tell your wife (bless her heart) that she was not alone. But that the Lord still controls all.

[xsmommy]

LOL!!!!

[oceanperch]

Welcome to the all nighters FR.

Any damage reports?

Is the epicenter in a rural or densly populated area?

Old buildings in the area?

[FreedomPoster]

Very rural area.

[AntiGuv]

Well, let's hope they're aftershocks rather than this having been a foreshock.. Just worth keeping in mind for those close to the epicenter. Stay safe!

However, by far most often, these lower magnitude quakes are just solitary events unless they're located on a major fault - at least that's my understanding.

[LowOiL]

Scanners have pretty much calmed down. Does not seem to be bad damage. It is a rural area here. BTW.. I said Mentone was the center before the news on TV did, does that make for another first for FreeRepublic?

[hmmmmm]

Hope she (and the baby) will do okay. Nothing fell out during the earthquake, did it? 8<)

An earth-shattering event? :)

[Robert A Cook PE]

Mentone AL and Valley Head AL are about as rural as you can get.

Good people, but rural.

Damage will be greater there near the epicenter than the "no damage" reports here in the Atlanta area. But most buildings can easily take a mag 4-5 earthquake with only minor, if any, plaster/wallboard cracks.

[Drago]

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

USGS:
The Largest Earthquakes in the United States
Location Date Time UTC Magnitude
1. Prince William Sound, Alaska 1964 03 28 03:36:14.0 UTC 9.2,
2. Andreanof Islands, Alaska 1957 03 09 14:22:31.9 UTC 9.1
3. Rat Islands, Alaska 1965 02 04 05:01 UTC 8.7
4. East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska 1938 11 10 20:18:41.2 UTC 8.2
5. New Madrid, Missouri 1811 12 16 08:15 UTC 8.1
6. Yakutat Bay, Alaska 1899 09 10 21:41 UTC 8.0
7. Andreanof Islands, Alaska 1986 05 07 22:47 UTC 8.0
8. New Madrid, Missouri 1812 02 07 09:45 UTC ˜8
9. Near Cape Yakataga, Alaska 1899 09 04 00:22 UTC 7.9
10. Fort Tejon, California 1857 01 09 16:24 UTC 7.9

Alaska is King of big ones...

[LowOiL]

Mom lives in Valley Head, she says her paintings, wall decor, ect.. got knocked off the walls. Too early to know about wall crackings. Sister thinks her wall cracks got bigger.

News now says we had two aftershocks. I did not feel them.

[hmmmmm]

All my levity is based on the assumption that there was no outward damage, that interrupted sleep is the only "lasting" effect of this earthquake.

[clilly54]

These little ones are better for you, let's off the pressure build up... barely a day goes by in CA without a handful of 2-4's popping somewhere. The big ones always seem to come out of the blue though, no little ones building up to the grand event, least not in my 48 years...

[oceanperch]

Many years ago my son flipped out of the breech position just as a quake hit.

Go hold her hand or whatever she wants to calm her down.

[FreedomPoster]

I've gotten to where I expect FR to scoop the news. I was on the Columbia threads, among others.

[clilly54]

Mind posting your travel itinerary, so I know where not to travel?

Sounds like you're an earthquake magnet :)

[LowOiL]

I gotta run to work now. I will count the second until I can get back to read.

[backhoe]

Howdy, Bella- all's quiet here in Brunswick- the dog got me up to go rat hunting at 3:00, and we didn't even hear a rumble... FWIW, about a year ago there was a small quake in another state, and we did hear what sounded like a very heavy steel plate being dropped on concrete when it happened. The windows rattled then, like they do when a sonic boom passes over the house.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I grew up outside of Richmond. In the 4th & 5th grades, our classes boarded the train at Broad Street Station for D.C. (with our black & white boxed lunches from Thalheimer's). We also took field trips to Richmond visiting the Capitol Building & Valentine Museum.

We managed to hit the White House of the Confederacy and the Civil War Centenial Center. It was not unheard of to have our year-end picnic at one of the many Battlefield Parks. How offensive it must have been to some back then! (sarcasm, for the impaired). But that was before the Consitutional Right of going through life without feeling offended and oppressed.

Of course, society is much more enlightened now.....not.

[AntiGuv]

Aw, geez, I think you're right! In the early spring of '99 - forget which month - I was in Chapel Hill when there was this freak 4.5 or so tremor in that area. Then, in the late summer of '99 I was in Moscow when they had a 5.0 tremor - about as far from any faults as it gets. Then I was in Istanbul for their August quake and in Athens for the September one!

I'm skeered what might happen if I ever visit California.. ;)