Just felt an earthquake

scottyboy76
scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
edited October 2012 in The Clubhouse
Quite literally, just now.

Either a small earthquake, dynamite close by, or some kind of accident involving gas or something.

Rumbling sound and about 3 seconds of physical sensation.

Deb was next to me fiddling with her purse or something, thought i was joking around, but i most definitely felt something.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,396
    edited October 2012
    USGS disagrees...

    Let us know what it was. Inquiring minds want to know...
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  • BuckeyeTim
    BuckeyeTim Posts: 483
    edited October 2012
    Sounds more like the 40 lbs of tannerite we just used to disembowl an S10. No worries, just us rednecks enjoying the fall season....and a beer or 12
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,933
    edited October 2012
    Come out to the bay area and then get back to me when you feel your first real quake :)
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  • seeclear
    seeclear Posts: 1,242
    edited October 2012
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    USGS disagrees...

    Let us know what it was. Inquiring minds want to know...

    No they don't---

    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/se101312a#summary
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  • Dawgfish
    Dawgfish Posts: 2,554
    edited October 2012
    Actually minor quakes occur more often in North Georgia than most would think. They occur most commonly from the Brevard Fault zone which starts in NC near Brevard (hence the name) and runs southwest into Georgia, continueing to near Atlanta and to the GA/AL border. A good portion of the Chattahoochee River actually flows over the Brevard Fault Line (rivers always tend to find the path of least resistance).

    I've felt a few minor quakes from the Brevard Fault in my day. The earthquake that occured near Scotty was not part of the Brevard Fault zone, but nonetheless, that are many, many minor faults located in the Appalachains and any other mountainous areas wether an active oregenous zone or not. The area where Scotty lives recieved massive folding and faulting during the formation of the mountains. The type of minerals that are commonly found in Scotty's area show that this area in particuliar recieved some of the highest pressure/temperature gradients that have ever occured in the earths crust (high preasure minerals like diamond, stauralite, emeralds, and rubys are actually found in this area). Sorry my inner geology and more specifically geology of the Southern Appalachains geek came out there.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,011
    edited October 2012
    Dawgfish wrote: »
    Sorry my inner geology and more specifically geology of the Southern Appalachains geek came out there.
    Hello, Dawgfish. Nothing to be ashamed of there. Understanding these kinds of things is quite an eye-opener. Especially when you discover that Europe used to touch New York, how the Hawaiian islands were formed and what truly lies beneath Yellowstone Park. I love this stuff. I'll never forget the day I rode my bicycle from Springfield, VA to the George Washington National Forest and hiked to the top of the mountain where I found a great deal of seashells lodged in the soil at the very top of the mountain. Without the understanding of geology, one would never figure out how they got there in the first place.

    Tom
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited October 2012
    What is beneath Yellowstone is a showstopper. Biggest volcano in the world...
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited October 2012
    amulford wrote: »
    What is beneath Yellowstone is a showstopper. Biggest volcano in the world...

    Lets just pray that puppy never gets agada and blows in our life times.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,011
    edited October 2012
    It's something like 40,000 or 60,000 years overdue at this point based upon the history. While it could happen today, I wouldn't necessarily hold your breath. Besides, if it does go? Most all of us won't be around to talk about it anyways.

    Tom
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  • Dawgfish
    Dawgfish Posts: 2,554
    edited October 2012
    treitz3 wrote: »
    Hello, Dawgfish. Nothing to be ashamed of there. Understanding these kinds of things is quite an eye-opener. Especially when you discover that Europe used to touch New York, how the Hawaiian islands were formed and what truly lies beneath Yellowstone Park. I love this stuff. I'll never forget the day I rode my bicycle from Springfield, VA to the George Washington National Forest and hiked to the top of the mountain where I found a great deal of seashells lodged in the soil at the very top of the mountain. Without the understanding of geology, one would never figure out how they got there in the first place.

    Tom

    Thanks Tom. It's precisely expereinces similiar to the ones you had riding your bike that ultimitely led to me becoming a geologist. I love the mountians. No matter how many times I'm home and around them, it's always a spiritual experience. I just know that's were I'm supposed to be. The constant beauty of those hills made me want to know how they got there.

    Oh and btw, if Yellowstone goes, you're right most of us will not be around for long. A similiar type eruption from the Toba volcanoe in Indonesia about 70,000 years ago nearly wiped out the entire human race. DNA evidence shows that all modern human beings are related to a small population of homo-sapiens that numbered only about 2,000 individuals after the Toba eruption. We were precariously close to going extinct as a species at that time.

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