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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: boxboy28 on December 07, 2007, 11:47:17 AM
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Well i was awaken by a sound louder than any thing ild ever heard, followed by rumbling for about 2 mins.
At 6 am this morning we had a 3.1 earth quake that happend to be centered 2 miles or so from my house.
here is the link to the location. my house is by the "L" in Lake Adger.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=35.3199+-82.19(M3.1+-+NORTH+CAROLINA+-+2007+December+07++11:07:03+UTC)&f=d&t=h&hl=e&ie=UTF8&ll=35.32577,-82.193699&spn=0.031792,0.072956&z=14&om=1
(http://a873.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/20/l_10defbf1fd0d57e645609c9cfc09c900)(http://a873.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/20/l_10defbf1fd0d57e645609c9cfc09c900)
well seems i cant get the map pix linked right ................
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Glad you are OK. Let us know if there is much in the way of damage in the area.
I'll wait a while for the inevitable it's the dems repubs fault.
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That's interesting. Until a few weeks ago, the strongest earthquake I've ever been in was in SC (Charleston!). We had a 4 or 5 something here (SF) recently.
That's a beautiful area you live in. I used to stay in camps in the Tryon, Saluda, Hendersonville, Brevard area a lot. I hear it's getting a lot more crowded with more people building mountain homes and whatnot in the area.
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Well i haven't saw any damage to report yet. a card my gf gave me fell off my monitor(ewwwww).
Nope the area still is very rural by most standards. My biggest danger driving home is the deer in the nieghborhood.
its just amazes me how loud the initial boom was i thought something just went supersonic across my roof...... the the rumbling and echos thru the mountians was very intense to say the least.
It best not mess up my fishing for the weekend(suppost to be getting into the 70's)
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glad to hear no damage, a teacher of mine in grade school had a house burn down due to a small earthquake breaking a gas line. That must have been years ago. There was also one just a year or two ago that woke my Mom and brother up.
We're from Weaverville, just north of Asheville.
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Yep I felt it to. Was centered about 5 miles north of me.
No biggie, but still a 3.1 around here is news. :)
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Here they have a unit on the gas line that if there is any movement, it auto shuts off the gas. Found out few weeks back when there was no hotwater. Utility guy came out & reset it. I think one of the kids had bumped into it with a bike.
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Sly it was centered off Garret road toward lake Adger.
And i didnt know anyone anywhere near Columbus played AH besides me!
PM me we gotta hook up!
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Didn't feel anything here, though I-40 was a mess going into work this morning at the Wake County/Johnston County line. Stupid sleet.
-- Todd/Leviathn
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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?
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It took an earthquake to get all of the North Closetliners to come out? :cool:
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Glad everything's okay. We appreciate your taking the punch and not letting it roll into Virginia.
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few more links
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/sehwb1207a.php#maps
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/sehwb1207a.php#maps
on the maps page use the google earth to zoom right in on the epicenter.
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You're posting about a 3.1 quake? LOL.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
It took an earthquake to get all of the North Closetliners to come out? :cool:
LOL!
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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
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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
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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.
:aok
Mac
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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... :eek:
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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
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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.