I have lived here in Johnson County, Texas for all of my almost 39 years, and today was the first time I had ever experienced an earthquake, at least one that I could feel. There are little ones here pretty frequently now, but in the Irving area, about an hour away from me. Today's earthquake was a 4.0 magnitude and shook the house for several seconds and rattled all the dishes in the cabinets. I was at my parents' house, and my mother asked me why I was pushing the back of her chair, and my father complained that the "stupid cat" was getting into something. The "stupid cat" looked up briefly from his nap and went back to sleep. I have heard that animals can sense earthquakes and act differently. That did not seem to happen in this case. Does anyone else here live in the Burleson, Joshua, Venus, Alvarado, etc. area. If so, I would like to hear your earthquake story. My apologies to the folks in California and the Pacific Northwest who probably think I am a total dweeb!
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All shaken up here in North Texas!
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That's how I felt about the one we could feel here on the East coast few years ago. I'm a geeky dweeb because I go check the USGS real-time map: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/.
Ugh fracking. Poisons the water, too.
We live in Lewisville, not so close to Irving, but I would not want to live in a fracking zone. Not because ofthe earthquakes, we moved from Chile so we're used to them, anything below a 6 does not even startle us.
The thing with fracking is that with "human made" pressure you never know how much the land is going to take and how is going to release that pressure. It could be a swarm of small quackes, which is the safer way, or it could keep pressure until breaking point and bring a bigger one.
There's so little about the consequences of fracking in the land that I'd rather stay away from it
The thing with fracking is that with "human made" pressure you never know how much the land is going to take and how is going to release that pressure. It could be a swarm of small quackes, which is the safer way, or it could keep pressure until breaking point and bring a bigger one.
There's so little about the consequences of fracking in the land that I'd rather stay away from it
Glad you're OK!
Mooch, are you talking about the one in VA a few years back? We felt that one at work. It was right after lunch time, I had come back from my walk, and I was sitting back in my chair with my feet propped up on my desk. Suddenly,everything started to shake and it lasted for several minutes. I walked out into the hallway and saw my boss who was also walking around, wondering what the heck had happened. We found out later it was a quake. I had never been in one before. It wasn't bad here or anything, but it startled us.
Mooch, are you talking about the one in VA a few years back? We felt that one at work. It was right after lunch time, I had come back from my walk, and I was sitting back in my chair with my feet propped up on my desk. Suddenly,everything started to shake and it lasted for several minutes. I walked out into the hallway and saw my boss who was also walking around, wondering what the heck had happened. We found out later it was a quake. I had never been in one before. It wasn't bad here or anything, but it startled us.
They've caused so many earthquakes now they can't deny it anymore.
MoochNNoodles
that's a really interesting website. Amazing just how many earthquakes there are everyday, just like lightening strikes.I'm glad we live in a non-earthquake zone. My DH wants to move out West, but I'm concerned about the earthquake risk.
It's west of several mountain ranges. There is a smaller arc going through Colorado into Utah; but none of these sit on marked fault lines on the map.
I really don't have any desire to live where earthquakes are common.Things like earthquakes, volcanoes and tornadoes have an interesting element to them; but I don't have ANY desire to live with them nearby!!
