We Just Had An Earthquake !!!

[lizbud]

Cincy's Mom,

It's unusual to feel a quake in Indy, but not at all rare.
I think small ones happen all the time, we don't realize
it till it gets a little stronger. We do have that major fault
that Molly spoke of along the southern end of Indiana.
The last one I remember feeling was years ago. I was at
home, in the bathroom.(perfect place to enperience a quake).

The pictures on the wall fell off onto the floor. I exited the
bathroom and went outside to look around. Other neighbors
came outside with that same puzzling look on their faces.
" DID YOU FEEL THAT ? " Sure let's you know who's really
"IN CHARGE" in this world and it's sure not humans.

p.s. Momofuzzyfaces, Sandra says to ask you about Storms?

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Originally posted by lizbud
p.s. Momofuzzyfaces, Sandra says to ask you about Storms?

Yea, it's been a wild and woolly spring here in Kansas. Of course being in the middle of Tornado Alley accounts for some of it. We've had tons of rain and lots of storms the last two months. Our town has been lucky and except for some flooding and some of us being with out power for a while, we've done ok. I have an aunt though who lives two counties over and their whole town had massive wind damage. Every house in town was damaged somewhat. There were at least 7 tornados spotted in that storm. Strangley enough now they say the fires in Colorado are making storms in Kansas. ??? I keep God's angels on full alert in case they are needed. The few people who have died in the storms have been because of floods. Trying to drive through a flooded road is a big no no. We've actually had TWO days in a row with no rain. Yipeee!!

[4 feline house]

We were just discussing that on another newsgroup. The person in Indiana said all her cats got fat tails!

[lizbud]

Momoffuzzyfaces,

Yes , Indiana has had a very wet spring also. The farmers
lost most of the early plantings due to floods. Have had trees
blown down & some power outages. We've had a lot of
flooding in the state in rural areas near the rivers. City folks
are still plugging along. Liz & Buddy.

[AmberLee]

Yow! Glad you weathered the quake with no damage. They do jangle nerves, don't they? I missed this on the news, so when I saw the title of your post I thought, "Does LizBud live in California??" Sorry to be so provencial.

{{{hugs to you and your critters!}}}

[krazyaboutkatz]

I'm glad that everything is okay Liz. Since I've been living in California, I've experienced quite a few earthquakes. They're always a bit scary no matter what size they are.

[kohala]

I'll have to check the US geo page (they track the shakers and post data) for the New Madrid you mention - Love the "fat tails" reference!! We mostly get the aftershocks down here, but my Mr. insists we're going to move before California reorganizes itself.

Shakers can definitely make you feel insecure - I remember when that Carole King song first came out (oops, dated!) - we used to laugh at the concept of that being, like, pleasant -?!

Grasshopper usually doubles in size when "the earth moves under her feet . . ."

[purrley]

OOOOOOOOOH a MOVER HUH!!! pretty unusual for Indy - there was one here a long time ago and yeah, they're really freaky. Guess you Northern Californians are used to that, but nevertheless they're nerve wracking!!!!!

[mugsy]

Kohala, tell hubby he doesn't have much to worry about since the reorganization isn't expected to occur for another million years or so! lol THEN, you better consider moving because Southern California will be subducted under Alaska! hehehe

And that New Madrid has been a nasty little cuss over the course of history...odd that it's that powerful since it's not on a plate boundary or anything! Can you give me the web address for the USGS site so I can check it out?? Thanks!! Tell hubby thanks for continuing to keep our country safe.

[Cinder & Smoke]

Here's a link to the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake web site...

USGS Earthquake Web Site

The front page has a link to coverage of the Magnitude 5.0 Quake in "Darmstadt, IN", which happened Tuesday, June 18, 2002.

And there was anudder one: Magnitude 5.3 Shake in "Bayview, CA" on Monday, June 17, 2002.

Been a while since we had one in NE Ohio...

[mugsy]

Thanks Phred...I'll have to add it to my favorites.

[kohala]

Thanks for the link to USGS - I'll add it to my favorites, as it really interests me - and I think we get more movers down here in SoCal than they do in the North - anyone know?

still lol over the fat tails!!!!!!!

[lizbud]

4feline house,

Sorry I did not understand the " fat tails " comment. I never
hear that expression before.

Cinder & Smokey's dad, Thanks for the link.I like that kind
of stuff also.

[mugsy]

You would get more shakers in SoCal than up north because of the San Andreas fault line.

[todd]

wow hope you all are ok