NC earth quake this morn.

[Dead Man Flying]

Originally posted by bongaroo


I'm working off Capital Blvd inside the beltline.  was reading the N & O online about the accidents and the fatality off US 70.

I live between Raleigh and Cary off Hillsborough, where you at Leviathan?

I'm just across the Wake/Johnston County line off route 42... it's a Garner address, but it's in Johnston County.  I work next to the Governor's mansion downtown on Person Street.

Apparently they had an accident at mile marker 311 headed westbound and another at mile marker 314 headed eastbound on I-40 this morning.  I'm off exit 312, sandwiched between the whole mess.

-- Todd/Leviathn

[Vulcan]

See now this is a quake:

Strong quake hits North Island
By MICHAEL FIELD - Fairfax Media | Sunday, 09 December 2007

BREAKING NEWS: A massive earthquake registering 7.6 magnitude on the Richter Scale has been felt across wide areas of the North Island.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4317859a10.html

[AWMac]

A Quake in NC? LMAO.... Dude that was yer StepSister just gettin off.

Tornados, Quakes and Hurricanes don't rank until they pass the 4 Mark.

Best wishes to yer Sister.



Mac

[Rolex]

Yup. That's a good shaker, Vulcan.

I've never been able to "get used to" them. My woman swears that I'm an animal because I get premonitions about them usually a few hours before we get one. As long as the shaking is side-to-side, I'm not too worried. Those quakes are safer than ones that go vertical. That's why the quakes in Japan can be so bad. Instead of plates sliding across each other, there are some areas where the plates have turned down, like putting your knuckles together. When they slip in the vertical, it's deadly.

Many people think a 6 magnitude is twice as strong as a 7 magnitude. They don't realize that it's a base 10 log scale. A 6 is ten times stronger than a 5. A 7 is ten times stronger than a 6.

Wait... I think I feel on coming on...

[Excel1]

rolex, we haven’t had a big damaging quake recently but new zealand is not jokingly called the shaky isles for nothing by the aussies. it's a pretty fitting description for japan as well judging by the nasty quakes it's had in recent years.. kobe comes to mind

[E25280]

Originally posted by Vulcan
You're posting about a 3.1 quake? LOL.

But you see, Vulcan, as your linked article points out . . .

The area is part of a massive fault line and regularly produces very large quakes.

. . . whereas North Carolina is not known to be prone to quakes.