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.