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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
All the neighbors in our small town met outside in their pajamas (needless to say that does not happen often). Police and alarms in town are going crazy. Wow...

48 posted on 04/29/2003 2:31:21 AM PDT by LowOiL ("I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me" -Gen. Patton)
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To: LowOiL
4/29/03

Rumbling shakes, awakes metro Atlantans


There was a whole lot of shaking going in metro Atlanta this morning.

It was not immediately known whether an earthquake was responsible. One TV report indicated a tremor in southern Missouri, site of the New Madrid fault, but it was unclear at 5:15 a.m. whether its reverberations had reached Georgia.

Residents across Atlanta's northern suburbs were shaken awake by the rumbling sound that may have lasted up to two minutes.

One Woodstock resident reported his house shook and creaked for a couple minutes shortly after 5 a.m. Reports also came in from Cobb County.

An East Cobb resident said, "The whole house shook. I could hear the windows shaking. It lasted about 5-10 seconds."

Three huge earthquakes occurred along the New Madrid fault in 1811 and 1812. Experts estimate that they were of a magnitude of 8.0 or higher on the Richter Scale and were felt over the entire United States outside of the Pacific coast.


50 posted on 04/29/2003 2:32:00 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: LowOiL
Woke me up here in Snellville. Thought maybe it was me having a muscle spasm. Felt like a heavy truck going by. Cool!
72 posted on 04/29/2003 2:41:34 AM PDT by DoWhatsRight
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