What’s SHAKIN around Greenbrier Arkansas?
Small earthquakes nearly continuous for weeks that I’ve been watching my earthquake alert app. And they appear very concentrated.
Is that a sign the New Madrid fault is getting restless or is it normal for that area?
A New Madrid event could do damage all the way to New York due to the more solid composition of the crust.
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Damn, son! All of the sudden, violent, agonizing-death, eye-gouging and yacking-up your own intestines doesn’t bother me, but the mental imagery of all of those poor little kids just a-shittin’ in their pants has brought a tear to my eye. And to think of all of these years I’ve wasted, worrying about the alien mother-ship landing and all of that anal probing and stuff… Those poor kids and their shitty little drawers… Damn.
HYFKMM!!!!
I thought you guys would have figured that out.
I wouldn’t touch that crusty old bitch if my dick was wrapped in depleted uranium flexible body armor.
Actually, there is a local gas company that has been pumping liquid into the crust to “crack” out methane (cooking/heating gas). The state made them stop to see if the frequency of shakers would stop. They haven’t and the gas company says it can’t possibly be pumping enough to cause the problem.
The New Madrid fault line is very very dangerous. It actually made the Mississippi river flow backwards due to ground upheaval back in the 1800’s. Rend Lake, a shallow and very large lake in Southern Illinois, was formed by that quake when the Mississippi overflowed its banks and dropped into a depression formed by the quake. That lake exists today, and is a fine bass fishing spot.
The damage zone from the epicenter in Southern Missouri extends out over a 1000 miles. I have earthquake insurance here in Arkansas, just 300 miles away. Earthquake insurance is interesting. 10% of property value is the deductible.
The United States Geological Survey estimates most of Saint Louis would be destroyed if the New Madrid lets go with a major quake. A lot of that old town is still brick and mortar construction. Casualties would be in the hundreds of thousands, dead, injured, men crushed by falling debries, screaming women falling into bottomless pits and cracks, and thousands of little kids shitting their pants.
The quake is past due, according to geological records. But then so is the Super Volcano in Yellowstone National Park. When that sucker goes, 75% of the United States will become uninhabitable, and the world climate will experience a catastrophic drop in temperature for up to a decade, wipping out crops, killing billions with starvation, disease, and loss of digital high definitation television!
Meanwhile, I got 14″ of rain last night, 70 mile per hour winds, and tornados. The National Weather Service said it is going to be worse this afternoon, AND tomorrow.
That damned Al Gore is responsible for this!
Regards,
Kindly, but Doomed, ‘Ol Uncle Hoot :wave:
I know! I took a look at that fault and it’s history… Holy crap! 7.7 in downtown Atlanta!!!! 😯 😕
That alone would fuck up the Bay Area and we have been building for earthquakes since the early 1900’s. There are no seismic requirements in Atlanta, or at least nothing like what it is out here.
All the attention is usually on the west coast. You could be right, the quakes could be settling of the liquified dirt with added water. Even if things dry out there still could be shakes from time to time.
I was born on the east coast and the family moved to San Francisco when I was four. Some of my first memories of California are earthquakes… 😯
I managed to miss the big one in SF in 1989 by three days (I moved to LA for school) and missed the big one down there in 1992 by another couple of days (I moved back to the North Bay for more school)… 😕
My girlfriend was still living down there (in Northridge) and I spoke to her the morning of the big one. It sounded like a war zone, sirens, heliocopters and people screaming in the background. That was around 7am and after that there were no phone calls into the area for a couple of days.
Seems these days its best to prepare for the big one as well as the collapse of the financial system. 😯
Crazy shit!
Hell, all of the shakin going on in Arkansas is HOOT bonin his fat neighbor lady! 😆
I thought you guys would have figured that out.
Synopsis,
During over a year damaging quakes in the New Madrid fault area in the early 1800’s, a large swamp was formed due to liquifaction. There are areas that still can be observer from the air where sand was forced up from below and are called sand blows. An equivalent quake today would destroy many older city buildings and bridges across the Mississippi.
Liquefaction is what certain types of saturated soils do in an earthquake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_liquefaction
Water typically lubricates faults but there isn’t a direct link to high rains and lots of quakes. Sort of like the small correlation of little quakes relieving all the stress so the big one doesn’t happen. Japan is subject to lots of quakes all the time and the big ones still hit.
The east coast is losing elevation, has been for a long time. The west coast is being lifted so there are likely cracks (faults) and cracking (quakes) in the middle. Who knows for sure, it could be a very old island formation being drug under the plate.
I don’t think anyone knows for sure what is going on. There are lots of theories but no real concrete answers. I have a few friends that are geologists and they could easily recite several common theories each one pretty different from the other.
It could mean the fault is relieving stress thru many minor quakes instead of one big one.
Regards,
Roachcreek
Could be but I doubt it. I hope someone that knows the area chimes in and can give a little better idea of what’s up. I believe the New Madrid area doesn’t have the talc like lubricant that Southern California fault has. These Arkansas quakes are small but very frequent and localized. It may be subject to liquifaction but I don’t have any formal education on the subject.
Hell, it’s raining and/or blowing so often in the mid west that I can’t get out and shoot.
Lurker,
It could mean the fault is relieving stress thru many minor quakes instead of one big one.
Regards,
Roachcreek
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Actually, there is a local gas company that has been pumping liquid into the crust to “crack” out methane (cooking/heating gas). The state made them stop to see if the frequency of shakers would stop. They haven’t and the gas company says it can’t possibly be pumping enough to cause the problem.
They couldn’t have caused some sort of chain reaction because that has never happened, yet. So it wouldn’t be there fault. Right ❗