Seriously, we did. Just a small one; no damage. 4.9 on the Richter scale. I didn't feel it at all. Apparently, it happaned at about 3 am this morning. The epi-center was in Fort Payne, Alabama----The Sock Caital of the World. (Don't ask we why---it just is)

Ack! Glad it wasn't serious!

I'm glad to hear you're ok!! We've had some small ones up here in Upstate NY, only 1 that I ever felt, that was a few years ago.
This is what I woke up to on the news this morning (this is a few miles from my house):
http://www.10nbc.com/index.asp?templ...&story_id=7522

Traffic was all screwed up because of it.

Yawn....When you live in the west a 4.9 is no big deal....


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weird we had one here in Arkansas lastyear at about 3 am glad nothing bad came out of it for you [img]smile.gif[/img]

yeah there was a 4.9 i think recently here in the olympics mountain region. i was also here when a bigger one hit seattle. i was in a medical building in the 5th floor. while everyone stood around and dazed, i told them to get the hell out and i was like the second person out of the building. i'm not going to follow that advice of staying in esepcially when i learned later that the building i was in had alot of cracks. thus, any longer, that building would had crumbled to the ground with people under it. its really no laughing matter IMO no matter the size of the quake. we just have to be careful. though, personally ii was both cautious AND excited that i was in my first quake. and i had just moved there. ;)

I know compared to the quakes they have out west it was nothing, just that we NEVER have earthquakes in Alabama.

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Most places have earthquakes at some point. There are old--very old--fault lines through North Texas but I doubt there has been any quake stronger than 4.0 in the last several centuries. Strangely enough (or not, if you have any knowledge of geomechanics) the rate of small quakes increased dramatically beginning in the 1910s with the oil boom as oil fields were discoved all through the area.</font>

Yup! We had one last year that made a teddy bear fall from a friend's shelf and she felt the house shake just a tiny bit- but I never felt a thing- was early in the morning, I think.

History time! One of the largest quakes in North America was out in the mid-west. The New Madrid fault let loose in 1811 with three quakes that were estimated to have been 8+ and were felt hundreds of miles away.

Good to know nobody got hurt Reeka, even small ones can be disastrous. We don't have earthquakes over here in this small part of Indiana, heh, we don't even have tornadoes (thank God) but we do have floods. Back in 97', the Ohio flooded big time and flooded out many small stores, houses, and businesses. First time they had to put up flood walls in 30 years.

...but I thought Jerry Lee Lewis said, "There's a Whole Lotta Shakkin' Goin' On". ;)

4.9 on the Richter scale isn't much. however I hope this isn't the beginning of something much bigger. :(

I was using a figure of speech, dear. ;)

My local weatherman said quakes like that happen down your way about once in 30 years, Reeka!

Well It's a big deal for Alabama! Hell, I don't even know HOW they had one.. The closest fault line I know of was the one that went through Western Kentucky-- in 1987 we had a small one when I lived in Louisville. They said withing 50 years we could have an 8.0 there. That it could sent the Missouri river backwards for a time. Scary stuff.

According to a Web site affiliated with Georgia Tech, there appear to be two minor faults in northwest Georgia, the Cartersville and Rome faults; one that runs more or less along the Chattahoochee River; and two more in Central Georgia.

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Reeka... I felt that quake this mouring.. and i live just outside of Atlanta, georgia! it hit us at about 5 am here, and was alittle weaker than what hit yours. it wasnt that strong, but it is the same one that went from alabama all the way to mid georgia. Scary thing is, we had a tornado fridy too. 4 days ago. Maybe its a sign somethng here will happen every 4 days??? :( ha

Here's a report on MSNBC about the quake:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/906826.asp?0dm=N228N

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Soooooo the earth moved for you too Reeka [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img] hands Reeka a cigarette and listens out for Barden [img]graemlins/blueblink.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]


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While it is, of course, very fortunate that the earthquake was too minor to have caused any serious harm, it does seem to have shaken your otherwise impeccable orthography quite a bit, dearest Miss Reeka. ;)