EARTHQUAKE!!!!

“Actually, I had hoped the Sharks would've won that series....I tend to always root for the underdog.”

“It was a great game. Great series. The Sharks played to win last night, but nothing was getting past Roy. Some of his saves were impossible. But most players even the enforcers played with restraint last night. I don't like cheap shots from any player and I hate to see a player hurt even if he is on the opposing team. Get 'em next year Sharks. Seeing how they play I will make it a point to watch a game or two of theirs next season.”

“Did any of you out there feel one about 12:47 pm yesterday? 5.0 magnitude? 10 miles NW of Evansville? Felt as far north as South Bend? Ring any beels? Or was it Crazy Mike breaking the sound barrier?”

“I actually felt it way down my way. It was just a slight movement in the floor, like when someone on the floor below you is jumping up and down.”

“I knew it--Crazy Mike!!”

“I missed the Whole Thing. Heard about it though. One of those mid-plate doodads on the New Madrid?”

“Nothing here in Chicago.”

“A 5.0? That was a bus rumbling by.”

“5.0?

Californians don't even get out of the hot tub for a 5.0.”

“I live RIGHT ON THE FRIGGIN THING. between new madrid and caruthersville. So, when the big one comes...it was nice knowen you all. The ground liquifies and everything sinks into it.”

“Didn't feel the earthquake here in California, but my house shook pretty good from the sonic boom of the Space Shuttle reentering the atmosphere to land at Edwards.”

“sorry, i stepped onna frog”

“Come up to Quebec, Canada to step on some of those useless country-breaking traitors.”

“I felt it here at work but at the time I just thought some one had over loaded one of the overhead lifts again. Tornados, earthquakes, floods, hell I love the mid west . NOT!!!!”

“It might have been the effects of a group sitting around a campfire eating beans.”

“Or maybe sitting around a bean campfiring eats?”

“Earthquake hits Missouri- rattles dishes and wakes up sheriff!

NEW MADRID, Mo. (AP) -- An earthquake shook southeast Missouri in the area of the New Madrid fault early Tuesday, rattling dishes but causing no damage or injuries.

The magnitude-3.7 temblor was centered some 15 miles west-northwest of New Madrid, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.”

“whoa nelly!”

“Hope it didn't shake Mutt out of his tree!”

“LMAO Treebeard”

“3.7? Yawn....”

“That ain't enough to get Bowlderman up to take a whizz! lol”

“BowlderMan probably does a 3.7 when he farts!”

“Then I'm guessing the Californians are all real glad Artex moved to Maine.”

“Didn't notice it in Memphis and no problems in Marion.

New Madrid is about 75 miles north of here. Over the years we have felt a short grind or two.”

“Not much to this one .

Sooner or later, however, we will have a big problem along this fault.”

“Yep, with the new building code there are only about 3 or 4 isolated places in California that have higher mapped design accelerations than the are north of Memphis. My first project under the new building code was a 200,000sf building in that area. Talk about an education in a hurry.”

“ These tremors are not too uncommon.



Nothing to see here folks,,,,move on.”

“This place just shakes alll the time!”

“3.7? Sheesh, that ain't enough to even stir my chocolate milk out here in CA.”

“I grew up not far from there, it was pretty common to get minor shakes like that from time to time.

it does get your attention though.”

“Wake me up when this happens.... zzzzzzzzzzzz....”

“Was that from when you were remodeling the kitchen, BMan?”

“No, Artex farted...”

“One of my favorite photos from that 'quake (from the USGS):

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“After spending 12 years in CA, and time in Ancorage. In the last few years more areas have felt quakes. Seattle had a good one, Alabama/Tennessee had a 3.4 last year and the Northeast has had some. It seems like we are getting more movement.”

“...It's not my fault.”

“Wasn't there a big quake in that area back in the 1800's that made the Mississippi run up stream for about a week?”

“Not sure exactly when that quake was, but yes. The New Madrid fault when it goes will make CA look like an amusement park. The big New Madrid quake in the 1800 made church bells ring IN BOSTON MA!!!!! If St Louis had beena big city back then it would have been leveled. Chicago would have had major damage if it were the city it is today. But back then the area was bot so built up. It was all farmland etc. It was the biggest quake in recorded US history from seismic standpoint, but nothing from a damage standpoint casue thewre was just nuthin to hurt.”

“Hmmm. We may have just had a small earthquake - will update in a few minutes....”

“Bingo! A 5.9 in Parkfield. My blinds were swaying a bit....”

“S.F. must be such an exciting place to live in. Earthquakes, 750' peaks to bag...must be heaven...


lol....j/k”

“175 miles away from me - not exactly in SF!!

Should hear reports pretty soon on Yahoo, AP, etc.... A 5.9 is big enough to do some damage, although Parkfield gets so many, the only stuff left down there is probably pretty stable.”

“They've had about 20 aftershocks already, the first one about 5 minutes after the initial 'quake: a 5.0! Lots of 3's and 4's on the list of aftershocks....”

“It's up on Drudge already, he's usually real quick with the Earthquake info.”

“So I scooped Drudge, eh?”

“You scooped him by almost 15 minutes.”

“Autographs will be available shortly....”

“Mt St Helens is acting up too. Lots of smaller earthquakes going on every couple of minutes there. Steam and dust coming out of the dome that has formed in the crater. Interesting stuff.”