To: JRandomFreeper
The New Madrid fault is on the other side of Missouri. I’ve never heard of an earthquake of that magnitude in Kansas.
15 posted on
11/13/2014 6:27:57 PM PST by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: familyop
Ah. Thanks. Maybe there is a new as-yet-unnamed fault.
/johnny
To: familyop
5.1 was the strongest earthquake ever recorded in Kansas. It occurred in Manhattan in 1867. So this one wasn't far below that.
I felt it in northeast Wichita. I didn't need the USGS report to know it was the strongest quake since we started having frequent quakes a year or two ago.
The enviro weenies are trying to blame this on the oil industry. The media picks it up and runs with it as if it was a proven fact. Lord, I hate the media.
To: familyop
The largest recorded was estimated at 5.5 in Wamego, Riley county in 1867. There is an area known as the Humboldt fault zone It roughly follows the Flint hills (the Nemaha uplift.)
There was also a small 2.8 earthquake today near Prescott not far off 69 highway.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
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