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Suz
Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3186
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 5/11/2009, 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, that's neat!
A 3.1 would not be easy to notice. Most people are asleep at 11 on a Sunday night, so they wouldn't notice it. |
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wanderingsoul
Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 2285 Location: Gilbert AZ
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Posted: 5/11/2009, 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Gee, reading some of the papers, there is a fault line in Carefree Hell's Canyon. We were in Hell's Canyon, wonder where we were in relation to it. Kinda interesting. No I didn't feel a thing. _________________ Wanderingsoul (Michelle)
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Nighthiker
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1714
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Posted: 5/11/2009, 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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Blasting ? |
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PageRob
Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 859 Location: Page, Az.
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Posted: 5/12/2009, 7:09 am Post subject: |
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Apparently in 1996 there was a 5.1 or so up here in this area. Rattled plates in town, so I've been told. _________________ Anywhere is within walking distance if you spend the time. |
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Deborah
Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 297 Location: Tucson
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Posted: 5/12/2009, 9:12 am Post subject: |
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Pools rippled and lights swayed in Tucson back in 96.
The Desert Museum used to have a seismograph which recorded quakes.
Maybe a fault or two here in Tucson. Rocks were displaced in the Catalinas during the 1887 quake. _________________ Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. - Rachel Carson |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 5/12/2009, 9:31 am Post subject: |
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I was in Tucson in '96, but I didn't feel it. I vaguely remember people talking about it, but most people didn't seem to notice it, as I recall. Since I grew up in CA and also lived on the Big Island I have been in quite a few 4s and 5's. 3's aren't even worth mentioning if you live in CA.
Here's one resource, with maps: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/27.37.-115.-105.php |
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wanderingsoul
Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 2285 Location: Gilbert AZ
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Posted: 5/12/2009, 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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So you mean I shouldn't have been standing in a door frame holding on and hoping for the best??
Just teasing...
I don't think I'd like to even experience what is considered a small one. OK I'm a WIMP ! _________________ Wanderingsoul (Michelle)
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 5/13/2009, 4:08 am Post subject: |
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If you grow up with them, they happen at least once a year or so, and usually they aren't very scary. The only scary one I was ever in was in Hawaii in 1983. Most of the ones there are from the movement of magma underneath the earth, signalling yet another volcanic eruption. This is different from the California ones, which are a shifting of the plates.
Oh, YIKES!! That one was a 6.7!! Yikes! I just looked it up on the internet. Nov. 16, 1983. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/events/1983_11_16.php
Here is my story about that 6.7: We lived in a 100-year-old termite-infested "coffee shack" with a rusty tin roof, between Kainaliu and Kealakekua, in mauka Kona. (Yeah, lots of "K's" in the Hawaiian language, which has only 12 letters: aehiklmnopuw.) This big old funky rambling place was 100 bucks a month, had a million dollar view of the ocean, and was out in the boonies on a huge ranch. It was almost a mile of serious 4WD road to get to the house. My second child, Matt, was only 6 days old. The earthquake struck at dawn. I jumped out of bed, grabbed the baby and ran, yelling behind me to my husband to grab our 2-year-old boy. This house was quite odd, with several additions, and the only means of egress seemed like quite a distance away, and by the time I got out the door, the earthquake was over. That old wooden house just danced around and wasn't damaged. (The worst buildings to be in are unrebarred brick, concrete, adobe, etc. Wood is the best.) So we stood out there in the yard, the quake was over, we just sort of shrugged it off and went back inside. |
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