Thread: Earthquake shakes WNC

Earthquake shakes WNC

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs. ... 24047/1001

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updated: August 24, 2005 11:53 pm

ASHEVILLE - The National Weather Service in Greer, S.C., has reported that an earthquake has hit the Asheville area, shaking homes across the mountains.

The earthquake measured a 3.8 on the Richter Scale, NWS forecaster John Tomko said.

“It was widely felt across Western North Carolina and northeast Georgia.�

There have been no reports of damage so far,� Tomko said.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center an earthquake occurred at 11:09. The earthquake's center was located 2 miles southeast from Hot Springs.

Anyone else feel this, It shook my house and I wasnt real sure what it was, it lasted about a minute or less but very strange.

I don't live anywhere near you but check out this 3.8 newsmedia? this said something else 2.5

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/ ... m0825b.htm

Check out these:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/bytopic/new_madrid.html
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/states/top_states.html

So back to illegal immigration issues.

TMS, that was the second earthquake that we had the first one was a 3.7
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/ ... w0825a.htm

The second one a 2.5 was later, which we did not feel.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/ ... m0825b.htm

I just thought it was interesting so I put it in the GD area.

I live in south Florida, and I think I felt your earthquake yesterday.
It made all the trees go back and forth, it knocked the screen out of the neighbors porch, knocked a fence down and made the lights go out.

Personally, I'll take a hurricane over an earthquake. I'd rather blow away than fall away!!! I hope that earthquake wasn't a warning of more to come. I've read how that area is long overdue for a major earthquake. What happened yesterday, is that extremely rare or do you have these tremors from time to time?

I feel sorry for Californians, but to be honest I'd rather earthquakes stay where I would expect them, not happen in places where I don't expect them. I have heard that NY is actually more prone to an earthquake than California. Is that true

NC has only had a few in the Last 30 Years. So it is strange. I don’t like the hurricanes in Florida either. We get the effects of them here as well when they go up through the Gulf of Mexico. The last one that came through took out about 40 trees around my house. They fell within inches of my vehicle and my house. They landed on all sides of my house but didn’t touch us. It took logging trucks to get rid of them all but I would have to say the Lord watched over us and protected us from harm. I guess he has better things in store for us.

Legal, it sounds like you made it through the storm okay though. Hurricanes are crazy because you just don’t know what is going to happen next with the winds the way they are. But I still don’t want the earth to swallow us either. But maybe these things are signs of the times.


Uh Oh, I mentioned God....