Anyone in GA/TN/NC Area Feel That Earthquake Awhile Ago?

[jeremy]

I sort of don't believe in them at all...

I mean, come on, almost 4 years in CA and nothing?

 

[chicknerd]

USGS earthquake site still says no earthquake. So either it was way under a 1.0 magnitude which is usually not noticeable or it was something else. That is pretty impressive if you felt it and it was under a 1.0 magnitude.

Have no idea what it could be, but USGS never takes this long to record an event. They usually record any event within minutes. A 2.6 in Alaska is not even felt by most people in Alaska, there is no possible way you could have felt in in GA.

Now a 7.0 is another story. I was in Seattle visiting my mother and my DH was a several hundred miles away in BC. After the 6.8 in 2001, in Seattle, he called as they had felt it there. But a 6.8 is over 10,000 times stronger than a 2.6.

just FYI

 

[chicknerd]

Interesting fact on the USGS site

Today’s Earthquake Fact

East Coast earthquakes are felt over a much larger area than earthquakes occurring on the West Coast, because the eastern half of the country is mainly composed of older rock that has not been fractured and cracked by frequent earthquake activity in the recent geologic past. Rock that is highly fractured and crushed absorbs more seismic energy than rock that is less fractured.

So any East Coast earthquake is felt over a larger area. Very interesting. It also confrims there is no way what you felt was the Alaskan quake or any other quake on the west coast.

 

[chickenlittle1980]

I did not feel a thing...... When I lived in Ca I did......

 

[speckledhen]

Well, Scott didn't feel anything, but if I'm delusional, so is my DH, who was in a different location and came out saying, "What was that?"

 

[lovesduckies]

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you didn't even feel the one on easter!?!?

 

[Ehigh57]

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I'm a little more than 30 miles south of Atlanta in Newnan. Hello

 

[ivan3]

speckledhen wrote: This was just eerie the way they hunkered down.

We have two quarries that blast every so often, maybe one of the toms will gobble, the chooks look in the direction of the sound, as the ground shock is simply to brief to react to (several miles distant).

Small earthquakes, those with magnitudes less than 2.0, are difficult to identify if one has not previously experienced such an event. Vibrations from many sources can be felt; such as thunder, heavy trucks on nearby roads, sonic booms, objects falling and unbalanced washing machines. When the source is not obvious, an occasional resident may become alarmed by such sounds, and may call emergency services. The non-seismic vibrations are usually easy to distinguish from earthquakes and quarry explosions because earthquakes and explosions have unique characteristics. Earthquakes within a distance of 50 km usually start with a jolt, build in amplitude rapidly within a couple of seconds and then decay. The duration of felt motion in the typical near-by Georgia earthquake is only a few seconds. A small earthquake is often described as a muffled dynamite explosion. The sounds of an earthquake are transmitted to the air from the ground vibrations and the rattling of loose objects. The typical small earthquake will be felt by many in a neighborhood so that consultation with neighbors should eliminate most sources within a single residence. The sparse seismograph network in Georgia will not reliably register one of these small earthquakes unless the nearest station is closer than 25 km.

From: http://quake.eas.gatech.edu/EMguide/EMguide.htm (with good history/frequency map GA)

I think your chooks were reading it right.

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[The Poultry Peanut]

You can report an unknown event here.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/

 

[jeremy]

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you didn't even feel the one on easter!?!?

Nope! I've never felt one! Where in CA are you? There's been more in Southern California it seems like than there have been up north.

Cyn, I believe you! My birds always get spooked whenever the weather changes it seems like. Or they'll suddenly go inside the coop and as I'm scratching my head why it'll start pouring rain out of nowhere...