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Anyone else get shook out of bed this morning? They said the epicenter was in Illinois. It felt like a tornado was shaking my house until I realized it wasn't storming. I live in central KY. Was pretty wild.
 
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i live in huntsville, al and some of the ppl said they felt it. now that i think about it, i do kinda remember it but i was half asleep and just rolled over
 
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Apparently, we have been having aftershocks. The news is reporting it, but I haven't felt them in my office.
 
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Some folks felt it down here.... I slept through it. :snoring:
 
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I live northeast of Nashville. It woke my 17 month old daughter up last night and she was not happy about it.
 
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MG1968 said:
Isn't the New Madrid a larger fault than the San Andreas?
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I think the San Andreas is part of a network of faults for lack of a better term. If I remember correctly the New Madrid runs from south of the Great lakes to northern Mississippi. It doesn't go off very often but when it does watch out. The earthquake that formed Reelfoot lake made the Mississippi river run backward all the way north to just south of St Louis.
 
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My roommate sleeps in a hammock, and he says it woke him up because his hammock started swaying.
 
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KB5252 said:
I think the San Andreas is part of a network of faults for lack of a better term. If I remember correctly the New Madrid runs from south of the Great lakes to northern Mississippi. It doesn't go off very often but when it does watch out. The earthquake that formed Reelfoot lake made the Mississippi river run backward all the way north to just south of St Louis.
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Whenever the New Madrid goes off, we're screwed. I don't remember a lot from my geology class in college, but I do remember there being 3 different kinds of faults and the New Madrid contains them all. Equals mass destruction for all around when new Madrid's big one comes.
 
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TheDeeble said:
Whenever the New Madrid goes off, we're screwed. I don't remember a lot from my geology class in college, but I do remember there being 3 different kinds of faults and the New Madrid contains them all. Equals mass destruction for all around when new Madrid's big one comes.
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That and the make up of the sediments underground. Basically when a big quake does hit Memphis will be screwed depending on the epicenter. Nashville will fare a little better but still take a hard hit. Many think Memphis would be destroyed out right.
 
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TheDeeble said:
Whenever the New Madrid goes off, we're screwed. I don't remember a lot from my geology class in college, but I do remember there being 3 different kinds of faults and the New Madrid contains them all. Equals mass destruction for all around when new Madrid's big one comes.
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The most dangerous faults are those that are located in the middle of a continent sized land mass. They are active less but release much more power when they do.
 
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KB5252 said:
I think the San Andreas is part of a network of faults for lack of a better term. If I remember correctly the New Madrid runs from south of the Great lakes to northern Mississippi. It doesn't go off very often but when it does watch out. The earthquake that formed Reelfoot lake made the Mississippi river run backward all the way north to just south of St Louis.
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I had read somewhere recently that the New Madrid earthquake actually didn't create Reelfoot as many have been saying for many years. It did not seem to dispute the claim about the Mississippi changing direction, though... which is still an amazing feat.
 
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