Posted on 09/10/2006 9:18:29 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
This is being reported live on tv so has not yet made it on the website. Tremors have been felt in Central Florida.
This must be from the oil drilling, time to put THAT to a stop. :)
Well it's working OK!;) I felt a slow vibration in the floor at 10:58 Eastern at Miami.
Oh that's what that was.
I felt some rumbling and couldn't figure out if my neighbors were engaging in some 'adult' activity or if I had put off breakfast too long.
Wait a minute, I am in California and I haven't felt a thing since Loma Prieta in 1989.
http://culturelifesciencenews.blogspot.com/2006/02/52-earthquake-dead-center-in-gulf-of.html
Friday, February 10, 2006
5.2 Earthquake Dead Center In Gulf Of Mexico
I think it happened about 10:56am instead of 9:56am as channel 13 in Orlando said that is when they started getting calls. (Shortly before 11:00.)
Just remember the New Madrid is not the only zone we have to worry about. :-)
We have the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone also.
http://www.cusec.org/S_zones/Wabash/index.htm
Recent studies have indicated that the New Madrid Seismic Zone is not the only 'hot spot' for earthquakes in the Central United States. On June 18, 2002, a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Evansville, Indiana with an epicenter between Mt. Vernon and West Franklin in Posey County, in an area that is part of the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone.
More info at the link above.
Back in 2002 the above seismic zone threw out a 5.0 which we felt all the way over on the MO/IL state line about 80 miles south of St. Louis. It actually knocked things off a shelf in my home and it sounded like the foundation of my home had cracked. Our home insurance went up after this Wabash Valley quake.
More info at the link above.
Was The Quake on the south end of the New Madrid Fault ?
I'm located about 70-ish miles east of Tampa. It was bad enough that stuff on the shelves rattled a bit. It didn't do any damage. It didn't last more than about 10 seconds.
It was kind of similar to being under a sonic boom, exc ept there was no noise. I go camping up near Ocala quite a bit, and there is a naval bombing range in the middle of the Ocala National Forest, so I've experienced a few of those. My first thought when this tremor hit was that some jet jock on his way down to the Avon Park Bombing Range got a bit carried away on the throttle and broke the sound barrier, but there was no boom.
It's actually not my first time in an earthquake. When I was stationed out at Mare Island, CA (north of San Francisco) back in 1989, we had a little tremor in the middle of the night. One of my roommates woke up and saw our racks swaying, but I slept right through it. About a month or so after that, after I'd gotten my orders to my ship and had left CA, the Northridge (?) quake hit SF, and caused all kinds of damaged, including pancaking part of the upper deck of the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge.
See above link
It wasn't due to the earthquake. The earthquake only occurred 2 minutes before and it would take about 1.5 hours for you to feel the P-wave.
| City | Distance (degrees) |
Travel Time (min:secs) |
Arrival Time UTC |
Phase |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miami, Florida | 5.77 | 1:25.7 | 14:57:32.7 | Pn |
Thanks for the link! Wow! A lot of interesting information there!
Now that is a very interesting link. I have to say that I'm not happy to discover that I live near a new techtonic plate. I still want to find out if New Orleans sank any because of this quake.
Actually, I misread my own citation. You could very easily have felt the earthquake.
The hurricane says to the earthquake = your turn.
Well she is still crazy. But she was right this time too!
The Gulf is heavily faulted. They aren't the result of techtonic plates grinding against each other like along the Pacific coast. They are the result of subsidence.
Imagine you had piece of uncooked spaghetti a hundred feet long and you started shoving one end of a ledge. At some point before you can shove it all off, it's going to break from its own weight. That's kind of what is happening in the Gulf.
Still no aftershocks an hour later.
Not a good sign.
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