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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
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Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
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 Posted - Oct 12 2010 : 8:30:58 PM
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Today this caption was on the front page of our only newspaper here in town...
Tuesday October 12, 2010
Birch Creek- An earthquake. That's what one expert believes caused the ground to mound and a giant crack to form in a wooded area just north of Menominee last week.
Yep...Birch Creek is about 10-minutes away from my house!
The crack measured the length of two football fields and measuring up to four feet deep. The earth was also heaved up 15-feet at one spot.
Everyone had a theory as to what caused it and apparently several people near by heard a loud sound when it happened.
Amazing-
Anyone ever go through an earthquake before?
Melody
Farmgirl #525
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KayB
True Blue Farmgirl
540 Posts
Kay
Del City
Oklahoma
USA
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Posted - Oct 12 2010 : 8:43:24 PM
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We've been getting them here in Oklahoma. The first time we thought it was either a sonic boom or something happened at the Air Force base. We keep getting some tremors and they are a little stronger each time, but nobody has said anything about any danger.
KayB
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annika
USA
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Posted - Oct 12 2010 : 8:53:50 PM
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I was going to School in Pasadena during a quake in the San Gabriel mnts that then grew a couple of inches! and I was also in Southern California during the Big Bear quake and it was the scariest quake for me yet...darn, could do with no more of the things!!!!
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Palouse Prairie Girls Chapter
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diana
Orofino
ID
USA
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Posted - Oct 12 2010 : 9:13:18 PM
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Annika we are sitting on on of the largest volcano / earthquake zone there is the entire area was formed when an earthquake lifted up the Tetons and did its thing with Yellowstone.
Diana
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lilwing
True Blue Farmgirl
1403 Posts
Brooke
Fulshear
Texas
USA
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Posted - Oct 12 2010 : 9:13:30 PM
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I was in New Zealand last month right after the earthquake hit there. I got to experience an aftershock (which basically felt like an earthquake to me) in the early morning in Christchurch. It is the most odd feeling. I heard the walls cracking and the building move ... as if someone just moved the bed back and forth ... it's unexplainable... frightening yet I wasn't scared at the time..I had been preparing all week in New Zealand for the fact I might experience it... and I did... and my husband slept through it! ...
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annika
USA
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Posted - Oct 12 2010 : 9:25:30 PM
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Melody, it all sounds quite mysterious. Did you go look at the site? I'm too curious not to 
Diana! Holy cow!...I did not know this....cool! ...kinda (hides under bed)  I'm cool as long as I don't have walls and ceilings to fall on me.!
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Palouse Prairie Girls Chapter
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http://prairiegirlsjournal.blogspot.com/
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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Melina
True Blue Farmgirl
435 Posts
Melina
USA
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Posted - Oct 13 2010 : 06:38:13 AM
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I lived through the Loma Prieta earthquake (the one that flattened the Oakland freeway) in California. The aftershocks were almost as frightening as the original. If you've ever lived in CA, you've experienced earthquakes.
The morning breeze has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep.
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Oct 13 2010 : 07:14:33 AM
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That's amazing!
Annika- Yup! The whole Pacific Northwest is in danger if the Yellowstone Cauldera ever decides to blow. A cauldera is a huge "super" volcano. The Yellowstone Cauldera is about 100 miles across. Where I grew up- the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming was formed by the Yellowstone Cauldera last time it was active. But luckily scientists (mostly) predict several millenia before that's an issue again.
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3324 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
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Posted - Oct 13 2010 : 07:33:20 AM
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It's just so strange for us here in the UP to have this happen. I think I will ask DH when he comes home to take me to see it so I can snap a few photos!
Melody
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msdoolittle
True Blue Farmgirl
1145 Posts
Amanda
East Texas
USA
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Posted - Oct 13 2010 : 07:48:46 AM
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We had one here (in East Texas) when I was three. It was on November 6th, 1981. It happened along a fault line north of town, and yes, I do remember it. I was in bed with my mom, it was very early in the morning and I remember hearing the glasses in the cabinet and the windows rattling. It actually collapsed an old amphitheatre! Anyway, I do remember that.
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jclambert
True Blue Farmgirl
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Judy
Stringtown
Oklahoma
USA
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Posted - Oct 13 2010 : 08:14:20 AM
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We had a small one this morning in South central Oklahoma. I felt the house shake but thought it was the Army base that is 40 miles away doing demolition. Friends on Facebook felt it too about 30 miles away.
Judy
"Courage is when you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what". Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Lainey
True Blue Farmgirl
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Elaine
Waco
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Oct 13 2010 : 1:04:34 PM
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I heard about this one. I hope that no one was injured. We've had a few earthquakes here in Kentucky and they were quite scary.
Farmgirl Sister #25
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cindy
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Posted - Oct 13 2010 : 4:59:31 PM
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I live near St. Louis which is north of the New Madrid fault, the site of the strongest quake in US history. We get earthquakes every few years, but nothing major in my lifetime. I can feel my house shake when the nearby quarry does its blasting, last time we had a quake I thought it was the quarry, but then it lasted too long, about 30 seconds. I didn't feel scared and it didn't seem to affect my animals. The only time it really scared me was when we had a mild quake as I was reading a Stephen King novel. Creepy!
Cindy
"There is more to life than increasing its speed". Mahatma Gandhi
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