This is the price of our independence! We never should have forsaken the crown!!

True story bro,

Was at Purdue visiting family when the 08 quake happened. I was asleep on the floor, the floor started shaking, I woke up thinking it was the neighbors or something then just went back to sleep.

Woke up the next day to find out I slept through a damn earthquake.

You'd think there'd be a statute of limitations on this sort of thing.

Aftershock, foreshock, whatever. Scientists are always confusing the two.

Sleep tight.

Iben Browning would like to have a word with these gentlemen. Too bad he's dead.

/was also at Purdue during the Big One of '08. Five years living in Seattle and I had to move to Indiana for my first earthquake.

So it was more of an 1812 overture?

R-R-R-R-R-Revenge!



/ hot as drying, limey cement

nm651984: True story bro,

Was at Purdue visiting family when the 08 quake happened. I was asleep on the floor, the floor started shaking, I woke up thinking it was the neighbors or something then just went back to sleep.

Woke up the next day to find out I slept through a damn earthquake.

I was living in Bloomington. I woke-up, saw everything shaking, fell asleep, woke-up again, and thought I had been dreaming. It wasn't till I went to work that I learned what had happened.

simpsonfan: Does this mean we'll have 200 years of aftershocks when The Big One finally hits Los Angeles?

Meh, still beats living in Florida.

Nope, about 10 years, RTFA.

Regarding the headline, there is only one word that comes to mind:

wat

That's one damned unintelliji....unintelergarb...inun...hard headline.
/Good to see the Colonials getting their comeuppance

Foxxinnia: You'd think there'd be a statute of limitations on this sort of thing.

Like this?

Thanks for all of the dead sons, lost buildings, and incursions, America!

/Signed Georgian Canada
//Give us back the parts of British Columbia you still occupy, you bastards!

LT L: Iben Browning would like to have a word with these gentlemen. Too bad he's dead.

Iben Browning got me out of school for a day back in junior high. We were told we could stay home that day if our parents were concerned about that earthquake. I wasn't about to pass up an offer like that, especially if the school officials were stupid enough to believe him.

The Nuevo Madrid quake was part of a secret Canadian plot to win the war? I thought burning your Presidents house and ruining your trade was more than enough.

FTA: "The damage from the New Madrid quake was bad enough in the early 19th century-half of the town was destroyed, but with many more people and buildings now in the area, a similar event in the region today would be devastating, seismologists and engineers agree.

So, losing half of a town wasn't devastating?

You heard them - it's just aftershocks from... two hundred years ago... and NOT deep injection wells, which we are economically dependent upon. NOT.

that's just, like your opinion, man.

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: nm651984: True story bro,

Was at Purdue visiting family when the 08 quake happened. I was asleep on the floor, the floor started shaking, I woke up thinking it was the neighbors or something then just went back to sleep.

Woke up the next day to find out I slept through a damn earthquake.

I was living in Bloomington. I woke-up, saw everything shaking, fell asleep, woke-up again, and thought I had been dreaming. It wasn't till I went to work that I learned what had happened.

This morning I slept through an aftershock of the tsunami-causing 8.0 earthquake we had a month ago, so I am really getting a kick out of some of these replies.

New Madrid was freakin' awesome. There are parts of the rural areas with ripple marks in the ground, and trees growing haphazardly due to the massive upheavals 200 years ago.

Wow...Fascinating. That was the one and only earthquake I've ever felt, btw. Eating breakfast before work near Kalamazoo. Thought it was a train for a split second, then remember saying, "Damn! I think this is an earthquake!"

nm651984: True story bro,

Was at Purdue visiting family when the 08 quake happened. I was asleep on the floor, the floor started shaking, I woke up thinking it was the neighbors or something then just went back to sleep.

Woke up the next day to find out I slept through a damn earthquake.

I was still drunk from the night before and thought it was my neighbors slamming doors for a second.
Then I figured it out, got up and went in the hall to see all my roommates and various hangers-on trying to figure out what the hell happened.
We all agreed it had been an earthquake and went back to bed to sober up.

Was in bed when it happened in Saint Louis. So can I still say I've been in an earthquake. Was playing Xbox when the smaller aftershock hit.

Whiskey Dickens: Thanks for all of the dead sons, lost buildings, and incursions, America!

/Signed Georgian Canada
//Give us back the parts of British Columbia you still occupy, you bastards!

WTF are you babbling about?

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: nm651984: True story bro,

Was at Purdue visiting family when the 08 quake happened. I was asleep on the floor, the floor started shaking, I woke up thinking it was the neighbors or something then just went back to sleep.

Woke up the next day to find out I slept through a damn earthquake.

I was living in Bloomington. I woke-up, saw everything shaking, fell asleep, woke-up again, and thought I had been dreaming. It wasn't till I went to work that I learned what had happened.

Ha I was in Bloomington too. I was hammered drunk and cooking a quesadilla in our kitchen. I wondered why all the pots and pans were jingling and shaking. I honestly thought it was a lightning strike till I woke up the next afternoon and found out it was an earthquake.

Whiskey Dickens: Thanks for all of the dead sons, lost buildings, and incursions, America!

/Signed Georgian Canada
//Give us back the parts of British Columbia you still occupy, you bastards!

Only if you take Detroit. Final offer

AirForbes1: Regarding the headline, there is only one word that comes to mind:

wat

this.

man,i was asleep here in st louis when i felt that quake.
thought the dog jumped on the bed or something.

then i remembered ,i dont have a dog!

mighta been a little drunk.

cmunic8r99: That Guy...From That Show!: FTA: "The damage from the New Madrid quake was bad enough in the early 19th century-half of the town was destroyed, but with many more people and buildings now in the area, a similar event in the region today would be devastating, seismologists and engineers agree.

So, losing half of a town wasn't devastating?

not nearly as damaging as a quake the same size would be today

You completely missed the point. Devastation is relative. This is something the article writer missed as well.

If that still doesn't make sense, imagine that something happened that destroyed half of the houses in your neighborhood including your own house. Then, some guy wanders by with a graphic showing that the devastation is nothing like it would be in 50 years...

You've want to cock-punch him right?

I was just a little ways away from the epicenter that one. It woke me up. I figured it was just a big truck going down the street.

Reading the article, I think the author may be trying too hard to reassure. The problem with such reassurances is the large number of liquefaction and other large-quake features, dated fairly recently but before the 1810-11 New Madrid sequence, that have been identified outside the historical quake area in the Wabash Valley seismic zone, and in various places all along the Commerce geophysical Lineament to the northwest of the Reelfoot Rift.

As far as I can tell from what is quoted applies only to the actual faults that broke in the 1810-1811 sequence. Presumably the loading is still slowly building on all the area faults that did not break, plus whatever stress might have been transferred off of the Reelfoot Rift in a big chunk 200 years ago. The 5.2 quake was well away from the break, not near the ends like two 6.x quakes in 1843 and 1895. The United States is still being stretched.

The question is not how many thousand years until the next quake on those faults. The question includes how many other different faults in the Midwest and East cause large quakes that cause strong shaking "only" every few thousand years. Especially since the damage area east of the Rockies is much larger for a given size quake.

All my daydreams are disasters.

She's the one I think I love.

Actually, Whiskey Dickens, the quake was caused by the great war chief Tecumseh, who told his fellow Indians he was powerful enough to cause such a thing, just by stamping his foot on the ground. Rumor has it that his foot was pointed in the wrong direction. He meant to point it east, not southwest.

On the other hand, the New Orleans, the 1st steam boat to ply the Ohio River was in the midst of the whole thing. They made it all the way down, too.

Interestingly, there are old stories about strange mists and fogs that smelled of sulfur......

Was in Peoria, IL when the most recent "big" quake happened. The first happened at like 5am and I slept through it, a lot of people I knew were woken up from things rattling in their houses, though. The worst damage I heard about was some bricks being knocked out of a friend's chimney.

The second one hit at about 11am and I was sitting in my apartment thinking about how much it had sucked to miss the first quake. All of a sudden it felt like my ass was moving around in my couch, so I looked at the glass of water on my coffee table and sure enough, earthquake. I sat on the floor of my 3rd floor apartment and rode it out for the minute or so it lasted.

Being from the midwest and never having experienced an earthquake before, it was pretty wild.

Nothing compares to the big one back in the early 1800s, though. Imagine not being able to start rebuilding anything for a year due to multiple 7.0+ earthquakes happening again and again after the main one, sand and gas geysers popping up everywhere due to all the movement in the ground. Crazy stuff.

I slept through the 5.2 quake, but I felt the 4.XX aftershock later that morning. I was giddy...I've always wanted to experience an earthquake. I still want to experience a bigger one.

//Mid-Missouri

Hongcouver: Whiskey Dickens: Thanks for all of the dead sons, lost buildings, and incursions, America!

/Signed Georgian Canada
//Give us back the parts of British Columbia you still occupy, you bastards!

WTF are you babbling about?




See that beige part in the northwest? Does that seem like a natural border, or the result of aggressive expansion? 54-40, or fight?

/Ashamed my country gave up so easily
//Would like to see this land returned within my lifetime.

redmid17: Whiskey Dickens: Thanks for all of the dead sons, lost buildings, and incursions, America!

/Signed Georgian Canada
//Give us back the parts of British Columbia you still occupy, you bastards!

Only if you take Detroit. Final offer

I think that we've already traded you Detroit for something else? It would be fun to have a dead example of the American golden age, though.

Deal!

Whiskey Dickens: Thanks for all of the dead sons, lost buildings, and incursions, America!

/Signed Georgian Canada
//Give us back the parts of British Columbia you still occupy, you bastards!

54-40 or fight!

The War of 1812 was a bloody waste and economic disaster for both sides. A heckuva lot of Americans especially in New England had both business and family ties across the border in the Canadas, and they never wanted to go to war with people they still considered kinfolk.
One side of my family, who'd emigrated into Upper Canada about 1800, took a commission in the militia during the invasion of the Canadas. Apparently, noone on either side of the family took too much umbrage at this, as even after the conflict the family used to regularly have reunions, visit relatives on both sides and often send their children to school on the other side of the border if there were any serious outbreaks of disease around.

So, way back in the summer of 1980 the Midwest, where I lived, had a fairly large "aftershock". I was on vacation, called back home to a friend (actually had to call collect from a pay-phone in those days)who told me they had an earthquake earlier that day. I didn't believe her so I called my parents. They told me there had been a 'quake. Made another call and was told the same thing. I thought everyone had conspired to pull a practical joke of sorts because I was then staying at a campground on a cliff above the PCH at Malibu.

Turns out there really was an earthquake in my midwestern homestate while I was camping out on the Cali coast.

/super cool story/anectdote huh!
//I was a teen in 1980, now I don't let teens camp on my lawn
///probably actually a good policy legally speaking

Whiskey Dickens: See that beige part in the northwest? Does that seem like a natural border, or the result of aggressive expansion? 54-40, or fight?

/Ashamed my country gave up so easily
//Would like to see this land returned within my lifetime.

From this Link (new window)....

Five years later, in January 1903, the United States and Great Britain agreed to appoint an Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, which consisted of six impartial judges, three from each side, to resolve the dispute. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Secretary of War Elihu Root, and former senator George Turner. Great Britain appointed Lord Chief Justice of England Baron Alverstone and two officials from Canada, Sir Louis A. Jette and Allen B. Aylesworth. Although Canada believed that Great Britain would support Canadian interests, Great Britain largely sided with the United States because it needed the latter's assistance in an arms race between Great Britain and Germany. After three weeks of discussion, the panel of judges voted in favor the United States' position.

Blame the bloody British, as usual. Thought you were ranting about Pt. Roberts Wa. Why didn't Britain buy Alaska from the Russians back in 1867 when they had the chance?

What is a Georgian Canadian?

/would like to see BC separate from Canada in my lifetime.

Good Behavior Day: Whiskey Dickens: Thanks for all of the dead sons, lost buildings, and incursions, America!

/Signed Georgian Canada
//Give us back the parts of British Columbia you still occupy, you bastards!

54-40 or fight!

There's an old 19th cent. chestnut just waiting for Glenn Beck to revive it...

cynicalbastard: The War of 1812 was a bloody waste and economic disaster for both sides. A heckuva lot of Americans especially in New England had both business and family ties across the border in the Canadas, and they never wanted to go to war with people they still considered kinfolk.
One side of my family, who'd emigrated into Upper Canada about 1800, took a commission in the militia during the invasion of the Canadas. Apparently, noone on either side of the family took too much umbrage at this, as even after the conflict the family used to regularly have reunions, visit relatives on both sides and often send their children to school on the other side of the border if there were any serious outbreaks of disease around.

Cool story, bro! People from the Niagara region are proud of the loyalist Americans that came to help defend us. Any chance your an ancestor of yours was a Butler's Ranger? You might have a Canadian war hero in your family.

Hongcouver: Thought you were ranting about Pt. Roberts Wa.

I had forgotten about that! WHARGARBL! Thanks for the additional source of outrage!

What is a Georgian Canadian?

One who was loyal to Kings George III and IV (1760-1830ish?)

would like to see BC separate from Canada in my lifetime.

Sure, how does "Northern Spokane" sound like for a country name? :D