Anybody feel any earthquakes?

[tommieharris91]

http://newsok.com/more-earthquakes-reported-in-central-oklahoma/article/3396369?custom_click=headlines_widget

[Petro-Sooner]

I wish. Its on my bucket list.

[Curly Bill]

I spent three years in Northern Japan -- felt lots of them.

[LosAngelesSooner]

http://hotbeans.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/mustache-_0002_ron-burgandy.jpg

Those weren't earthquakes....baby...

[SoonerStormchaser]

I spent three years in Northern Japan -- felt lots of them.

Oh yah? I spent FOUR years at Misawa. Ha! You got served! ;) srsly, worst I ever felt there was a fiver

[Jacie]

In 2002 there was a 5.0 in upstate New York my wife and I felt one Sunday morning as we lay in bed. There was rumbling and the noise of the house shaking. The dog started to whine and it lasted just long enough that I was beginning to think we should get out of the house before it fell down.

http://www.seismo-watch.com/EQS/AB/2002/020420.NY/020420.NY.html

I was surprised to learn that I had moved into a seismically active area. A geology professor at a local college who specialises in seismology, Dr. Frank Rivetta, has set up a seismic network in St. Lawrence county to get accurate measurements of the small earthquakes that happen rather frequently. There is not a consensus explanation for why this area experiences seismic events as much as happen. There are no visible or surface faults, it is not near a tectonic boundary nor volcano. One theory that Dr. Revetta dismisses is that the region is rebounding from the crushing weight after the melting of the 2-miles thick ice sheet that covered this part of the world until 10,000 years ago (in fact, peaks in the Adirondack Mountains have displayed measurable increases in elevation in the last century, which is attributed to isostatic rebound).

When the 2002 quake occurred Dr. Revetta immediately went to the geology building to see what his equipment had measured and was soon sought by CNN for an interview as our regional on-the-spot expert.

I was fortunate to get to know Frank when I took one of his classes while pursuing a teaching certificate. Frank drafts students to help him maintain the earthquake detectors he has installed throughout the county and so I had opportunities to service several of them which had stopped working. We replaced a cable chewed through by a cow at one, replaced a battery in another. They have to be located elevationally high enough above the surrounding area to have line-of-site to the campus. Antenna on top of the tallest building there receive the signals which transmit to the geology building where the data are digitally stored. Old fashioned ink on drum style recorders are set up in the hallway of the geology building that are linked to the detectors so passersby can see what if any seismic activity is occurring anywhere in the county at that moment. At a highschool where I taught I managed to get a grant to install a digital seismic detector in the basement there (a company in California sells them for about $500).

It isn't California or Japan so the Northeast won't experience the really high magnitude earthquakes but because of the nature of the bedrock, small ones can be felt over great distance from the epicenters.

[Crucifax Autumn]

I've been just out of range to feel 'em both here in Nevada and in New York. I certainly don't want to feel a big one, but a slight tremor would add to the tornadoes and hurricanes I've been in.

[1890MilesToNorman]

Jacie, I felt that one while living in Dracut Mass, it was weird fer sure. I thought some big *** truck had pulled in the driveway.

[Curly Bill]

Oh yah? I spent FOUR years at Misawa. Ha! You got served! ;) srsly, worst I ever felt there was a fiver

Yeah well....the three years I spent there seemed like four or five. :P

[SoonerStormchaser]

What years, Cb?

[meoveryouxinfinity]

Ada on thursday (?) night...

[Curly Bill]

What years, Cb?

July 91 thru June 94

[StoopTroup]

Choctaw made youtube...no embedding. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9ebtjqaTDM&feature=sub

[StoopTroup]

Another...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6RkmlBvwzk&feature=related

[Boomer_Sooner_sax]

I felt the one on the morning of the A&M game, the 14th in Choctaw. They have had several since. The one I felt was 3.0 and was at 5:14 in the morning.

[49r]

someday leonard...someday...

[StoopTroup]

What happens if you get an earthquake and you're in your tornado shelter waiting out the storm?

[beer4me]

What happens if you get an earthquake and you're in your tornado shelter waiting out the storm?


No funeral would be necessary;)