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I felt my first earthquake early Sunday morning. September 11th. I was not far from San Angelo, and felt the truck move, it actually shook, for about 2 seconds....I had been up for about 30 minutes but was still relaxing in the sleeper, checking email, news about the anniversary of September 11, and recent tweets on my iPad. Normally when you feel that in a stationary truck cab, its either a gust of wind, or maybe a heavily loaded truck that rolls by on the highway. I heard an hour later it was an earthquake in Snyder. Magnitude 4.4 on the scale. It's a sparsely populated area, and the suspicion is that the oil and gas operations in the area are causing it. Where have we heard THAT before? There have been several aftershocks, and in fact, in the last few years, they have had a number of minor tremblors in the area. http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/news/local/story/Snyder-earthquake-Scurry-County/DnOHZWUCvUSgbivOt5IWsg.cspx?rss=2345 http://earthquake-report.com/2011/09/11/shallow-magnitude-4-4-earthquake-close-to-snyder-texas/ This was centered in a county named appropriately, Scurry County.
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The Weather Channel says yesterday's east coast earthquake was caused by an unknown fault line running under D.C. and through Virginia. It is now being called Obama's Fault, though Obama will say it's really Bush's Fault. Other theories are that it was the founding fathers rolling over in their graves, or that what we all believed to be an earthquake was actually the effects of a 14.6 trillion dollar check bouncing in Washington. (I loved this one and just had to share it - thanks!!)
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Just felt an earthquake. Felt like someone came up and was pushing on my chair. Computer monitors were moving. Not usual in northern Ohio. Was centered in Virgina, about a 5.8 Gary
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Posted by the author Peter Cree on the Larrivee Guitar Forum A composition for the victims of Japan's Tsunami and Earthquake. http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=10412634&q=hi&newref=1 Not easy listening. -
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The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday. The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Perhaps more impressive is how much the quake shifted Earth's axis," NASA officials said in a Monday update. The computer model used by Gross and his colleagues to determine the effects of the Chile earthquake effect also found that it should have moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm or 27 milliarcseconds). The Earth's figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis, which it spins around once every day at a speed of about 1,000 mph (1,604 kph). The figure axis is the axis around which the Earth's mass is balanced. It is offset from the Earth's north-south axis by about 33 feet (10 meters). Strong earthquakes have altered Earth's days and its axis in the past. The 9.1 Sumatran earthquake in 2004, which set off a deadly tsunami, should have shortened Earth's days by 6.8 microseconds and shifted its axis by about 2.76 inches (7 cm, or 2.32 milliarcseconds). One Earth day is about 24 hours long. Over the course of a year, the length of a day normally changes gradually by one millisecond. It increases in the winter, when the Earth rotates more slowly, and decreases in the summer, Gross has said in the past. The Chile earthquake was much smaller than the Sumatran temblor, but its effects on the Earth are larger because of its location. Its epicenter was located in the Earth's mid-latitudes rather than near the equator like the Sumatran event. The fault responsible for the 2010 Chile quake also slices through Earth at a steeper angle than the Sumatran quake's fault, NASA scientists said.
