Magnitude 3.6 WESTERN KENTUCKY 2005 June 20 12:21:42 UTC

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Recent Earthquake Activity in the USA

Magnitude 3.6 - WESTERN KENTUCKY
2005 June 20 12:21:42 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Cooperative New Madrid Seismic Network

A minor earthquake occurred at 12:21:42 (UTC) on Monday, June 20, 2005. The magnitude 3.6 event has been located in WESTERN KENTUCKY. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 21 km (13 miles). (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

Magnitude	3.6
Date-Time	Monday, June 20, 2005 at 12:21:42 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Monday, June 20, 2005 at 7:21:42 AM = local time at epicenter
Location	36.920°N, 89.000°W
Depth	21.1 km (13.1 miles)
Region		WESTERN KENTUCKY
Distances	4 km (3 miles) SW (231°) from Blandville, KY 5 km (3 miles) N (10°) from Bardwell, KY 9 km (6 miles) SE (124°) from Wickliffe, KY 37 km (23 miles) WSW (243°) from Paducah, KY 152 km (94 miles) WNW (286°) from Clarksville, TN 219 km (136 miles) SSE (150°) from St. Louis, MO
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 0.6 km (0.4 miles); depth +/- 1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Parameters	Nst= 26, Nph= 26, Dmin=16 km, Rmss=0.27 sec, Gp= 83°, M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=D
Source		Cooperative New Madrid Seismic Network
Event ID	nm747
	Felt Reports	Felt (IV) at Bardwell, Barlow, Cunningham, Fancy Farm, Hickory, Wickliffe and Wingo; (III) at Calvert City, Kevil, La Center, Mayfield, Paducah and West Paducah. Also felt (IV) at Cairo, Illinois and (III) at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Felt in parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From School Library Journal
YA-When the New Madrid Fault Zone, which has produced three of the largest earthquakes on record in North America, begins to show signs of reawakening, geologist John Atkins and seismologist Elizabeth Holleran join forces with other experts to try to prevent another series of disasters. After two major earthquakes devastate the Midwest along the Mississippi riverbed, the team of specialists battles major fires, looting, aftershocks, and frenzied survivors in a breakneck race to prevent a third, even larger quake. Their answer is to detonate an atomic bomb in an old mine shaft, which will set off 5.0-6.0 quakes, but hopefully dissipate the stress building into a quake even larger than 8.4.

In the frantic rush to vacate the mine tunnel, the team members battle not only mine fires, deadly gases, and falling shafts, but also one another. Afterward, what remains of the middle part of the United States begins the arduous task of cleaning up. The story is filled with facts about geology, tectonics, and physics, but the information never gets in the way of the action. The characters scurry through the endless challenges and serve more to join sequences of the novel together than to provide any meaningful relationship, although the two scientists fall in love during the melee. Offering lots of excitement and the inherent thrill typical of a survival story, the book will appeal to YAs who enjoy authors such as Michael Crichton and the team of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA

Boy this one has it all.....atomic bombs......maybe we need to try that out here.....

[SLB]

I hate it when I sleep through the excitement.

[skinkinthegrass]

..yeah, back in 1980...I was in a movie theater, watching Empire Strikes Back, during in asteroid evasion/chase...thats when the Mayfield, Ky. "Event" (Magnitude 5.3) happened. You could feeling the building "move/creak"; no one screamed, no one got-up & ran, we just sat there marveling @ "the marvelous Special Effects" of the movie. :D

[skinkinthegrass]

..yeah, back in 1980...I was in a movie theater, watching Empire Strikes Back, during in asteroid evasion/chase...thats when the Mayfield, Ky. "Event" (Magnitude 5.3) happened. You could feeling the building "move/creak"; no one screamed, no one got-up & ran, we just sat there marveling @ "the marvelous Special Effects" of the movie. :D