[hmmmmm]

I didn't know there were any gold fields in GA. Yes, I'm a product of the public school system.

Of course there would be a fault line there. Thank you :) for the timely response, especially considering the circumstances!

[Robert A Cook PE]

The North GA gold fields were among the largest in the US .... Pre-1849 at least, but they were worked from the very early 1800's.

You can still go up that area and pan if you like.

[doodad]

First gold rush in America. There was a mint in Dahlonega, look it up. Plenty of gold still up there too.

[Atlantian]

In the early 1800's gold was discovered on Cherokee land in N. Georgia. Eventually the Cherokees were forced off the land and resettled in Oklahoma, now known as "The Trail of Tears".

[flying Elvis]

Yes, one reason for the removal of the Cherokees was all the alleged gold to be found in northwest Georgia. The faultline responsible for today's shaker runs along interstate 59 through northeast Alabama. There have been some serious earthquakes in the Southeast in the past. The Charleston earthquake of 1886, killed 60 people in Charleston, SC, and effected the entire South. Wells and springs as far away as Rome Georgia dried up when the limestone formations underground cracked, thus rechanneling water in the aquifer.