Earthquake

[C-dub]

Just now felt an earthquake in North Dallas.

It's been a while since I've felt one. 1987 at NAS Miramar

[joe817]

Now that's interesting. One was reported on Channel 5's news at during their 5pm newscast. Even had some seismologist giving a lecture on all the one's they've had around the old Cowboy Stadium. Like 23 of them! Several within the past week.

[RoyGBiv]

I felt it too. 3:10 pm.

[Keith B]

No, he means another one at 6:52 this evening. It was a 3.6, where the one earlier was a 3.5 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... alse%7D%7D" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[RoyGBiv]

No, he means another one at 6:52 this evening. It was a 3.6, where the one earlier was a 3.5 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... alse%7D%7D" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Earlier posting from my phone... hard to read sometimes.

I went and spoke to my wife right after the "roll" swept through the house.
Me: Did you feel that?
Her: Huh?
Me: The earthquake?
Her: No.
Me: That's 'cause I'm more sensitive than you.
Her:

[suthdj]

I felt it too. 3:10 pm.

Dito felt in farmers branch

[C-dub]

Looks like there was a total of four this afternoon.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Earthq ... 97091.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The two just after 8 o'clock, while watching Agent Carter, felt like someone kicked my couch only a minute or seconds apart.

[carlson1]

Just reported on Fox 4 Dallas news at the end of the broadcast that there were two more bringing the total to 6 earthquakes in the last 14 hours in Irving.

[Jumping Frog]

It is George W. Bush's fault.

[Keith B]

They now say a total of 9. USGS only lists those over 2.5 magnitude, which they show 5 on their site, meaning 4 less than 2.5. There is a fault line over there named the Balcones Escarpment that runs from north of San Antonio through Austin to the west of Dallas. I don't these have anything to do with the gas well drilling, just that the fault has become active.

[baldeagle]

It is George W. Bush's fault.

Ultimately it is. After all, he chose not to run for a 3rd term. Otherwise we wouldn't be in this mess.

[The Annoyed Man]

Felt it. That wasn't t an earthquake. No overpasses fell down. No power lines knocked down. No gas lines ruptured. No buildings collapsed. No raging fires. Nobody died. In my (several times) experience, that's what earthquakes do.

This was just the earth "adjusting its underwear" a little bit.

[Keith B]

Felt it. That wasn't t an earthquake. No overpasses fell down. No power lines knocked down. No gas lines ruptured. No buildings collapsed. No raging fires. Nobody died. In my (several times) experience, that's what earthquakes do.

This was just the earth "adjusting its underwear" a little bit.

For you California guys it's a perspective thing.

I grew up in the New Madrid fault zone. It is not very active, but does have a history of one of the largest most powerful earthquakes in U.S. history.

In 1990, a Professor from Arizona named Iben Browning predicted there was a 50-50 probability of a 7.0 or greater earthquake on the fault around the 1st of December, with smaller predecessors around Oct 1 and Nov 1. Most people blew it off untruly we had a 4.5 tremor on Sept 29th. Then the Chicken Little effect kicked in and the sky was falling. People went nuts planning to be away from the area around the first of December, etc.

I went out to California for training the middle of October that year. When i told the instructor where i was from, he said 'Oh, you're from the area where the 'big one' is gonna hit!' I said 'Yeah, it has a lot of people worried'. He said, 'Ah, earthquakes are not big deal. Now, tornadoes scare me!' I said, Ah, tornadoes are no big deal to us Midwesterner's.'

Needless to say it never happened. So, it IS just a perspective thing and what you get used to living around.

[AlaskanInTexas]

Back in my Alaska days, I used to work in an office housed in a shoddily-made addition to a very old log cabin. Whenever earthquakes would come, the room would sway and creak for about 30 seconds after the earthquake was over- I never knew if this was going to be the time the thing finally collapsed.

Last night, just before 7, I was laying on the couch in my office in downtown Dallas, and thought for sure I felt a very minor earthquake - guess I was right. I love the perspective that people have. In Alaska, no would even mention a 3.6 earthquake - not even a pause in mid conversation. I think non-earthquake people get real excited by the Richter Scale without understanding how it works. The magnitude of a 5.0 earthquake is 100 times more than a 3.0 earthquake. A 5.0 earthquake will get your attention, but probably won't cause any meaningful damage. So a 3.0 earthquake is basically nothing.

Between the bears, cold, earthquakes, and volcanoes in Alaska, and the hurricanes, tornadoes, heat, and snakes in Texas, I think I am ready for just about anything.

[jimlongley]

A bunch of years ago my wife and I were watching our son marching in a parade in Schenectady NY when debris started coming off the top of the building we were standing in front of. At first I thought it was someone on the roof being very rude and moved back toward the facade, and then as car alarms, burglar and fire alarms erupted all over the place my spidey senses kicked in and I dragged my protesting spouse out to the middle of the street. I was right, it was an earthquake, and although we never really noticed the ground moving under our feet, it did break up the parade as fire and police participants went full code three to get back to their districts in response to all of the alarms. No major damage, but upstate NY is not one of those places where one would expect any sort of seismic activity, so it was on the local news for days.

I was at a function at Allen city hall and we didn't notice anything.