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Old 08-26-2011, 10:23 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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Just asking because we just had a small shaking in Boston from the Virginia quake. It amazed and puzzeled may people in the office.
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Old 08-26-2011, 11:14 AM
 
Location: Albuquerque
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You might want to check the local news videos that are available.

I watched an article on koat - channnel 7 that showed some pretty
remarkable sidewalk heaves and discussion of even worse fissures
in the alley behind the store being featured.

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Originally Posted by GregW
... Virginia quake. It amazed and puzzeled many ...
As one of the many experts that got dragged out of their offices after that Virginia quake said ;

"Earthquakes can happen anywhere."

Just because there is no human memory of one doesn't mean there won't
be one tomorrow where you live. ( "You," the reader, not "you," GregW. )

Probably the second worst earthquake ( in the U.S. ) - in human terms - not
magnitude - was in 1886 in Charleston, SC. The worst was in 1906, of course.

In addition, one of the worst - in terms of magnitude was just NW of Memphis.

The biggest one I ever felt ( in the U.S. ) was in Ohio.

The part that I really liked was that the Nuclear power plant nearest the VA
quake went to backup power to keep the water circulating but it didn't work.
Next, they went to the 'backup-backup-power' and it worked.

It's great how they install backup power, maybe 20 years before and never
bother to test it - it would seem. There won't be any call for other Nuke
plants to test theirs because it would 'cost too much' to do so. We'll all just
wait for a "real" disaster to happen - and then close the proverbial barn door.

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Old 08-26-2011, 05:46 PM
 
Location: Tejas
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I posted on the 23rd in the Colorado forum on this. Thanks for starting the thread Greg!

The earthquake was 25 northwest of Raton near the Colorado town of Segundo. Segundo does have lots of homes with cracked walls and chimneys but thankfully no injuries were reported. There is a sizable story in todays Raton Range, the town paper on this. It was reported to be 5.3 on the scale. Apparently no property damage in Raton but a lot of frayed nerves, I'm sure. Trinidad does have reports similar damage to homes and businesses, again thankfully no injuries to report. According to the story there were several small quakes (2.1 to 3.0) before the 5.3 one hit. This area has had sizable earthquakes before, I believe the last one was 2005. And of course it was felt in a sizable stretch in Colorado and south of Raton. And there also were rockslides on the roads (Interstate 25 at Raton pass) and Colorado 12 which goes through Segundo, but the road crews got those areas cleaned up.

The only one I can think of on City Data who lives in Raton is Hopeful Transplant. The last time she logged on was August 4th. Hopefully someone who lives there can weigh in here. I know BrianH lives in Clayton, 80 miles east of Raton on U.S. hwy. 87. Brian, whatcha got on this?
Ive got nothing, first I heard of it is now :|
I have a friend in Raton though, I can ask her tonight.
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Old 08-27-2011, 08:33 PM
 
Location: New Mexico
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Some geologists are suggesting the increase in fracking by oil companies contributed to rare seismic activity in Colorado and even the East Coast earthquake. The practice is on the increase particularly in southern Colorado.
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Old 08-28-2011, 03:45 PM
 
Location: Albuquerque
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Some geologists are suggesting the increase in fracking
by oil companies contributed to rare seismic activity ...
I've heard that too. It has happened in many areas, including Europe.
It sounds reasonable to me. Most of the earthquakes are of lower
magnitude than can be felt - some are bigger.

Also, some of the "Earthquakes" might just amount to releving stress
on the rocks in general and not the result of a fault slipping.

Another thing to consider is that if it really is possible to make a fault
slip a little bit due to fracking, then it would be worth doing that in
areas where known faults are likely to result in major earthquakes.

For instance, it would be better to have the San Andreas fault have an
( undetectable by humans ) magnitude 2.0 quake every week or so than
to have a magnitude 8 or so every sixty years.
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Old 08-29-2011, 06:42 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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Failure to properly test safety systems, if true, is generally the result of allowing the finance based executives to overrule the engineers. This is why these things need to be regulated and the regulators forbidden to ever work for a power company or any of their financiers.

I am aware the quakes can happen anytime anywhere without warning. Well written and enforced (unlikely) building codes can reduce the damage.

I am glad the damage from this quake was minimal. We are now cleaning up from a rare north east coast hurricane. Our place is fine but there is a lot of flood damage in upstate New York and most of Vermont. Tremendous amount of rain combined with hilly terrain results in severe flooding.
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Old 10-17-2011, 06:21 PM
 
Location: New Mexico U.S.A.
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3.8 magnitude earthquake hits Northern N.M.
Updated at: 10/17/2011 4:48 PM

The U.S. Geological Survey is confirming that an earthquake happened at 10:38 a.m. Monday in Northern New Mexico.

The center of the 3.8 magnitude earthquake was 9 miles north of Santa Fe, two miles west of Chupadero, four miles southeast of Cuyamungue and 62 miles northeast of Albuquerque.

The earthquake had a depth of around 0.7 miles.

There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.

The small earthquake comes after a magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck northern New Mexico last month and magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit around the same area in August.


FROM: 3.8 magnitude earthquake hits Northern N.M.* | KOB.com (http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2332229.shtml?cat=500 - broken link)


> Read about the earthquake at the USGS site



Rich
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Old 10-20-2011, 07:12 PM
 
Location: Albuquerque
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The volcano; she's waking up.
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Old 10-21-2011, 01:12 AM
 
Location: CA
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I've heard that too. It has happened in many areas, including Europe.
It sounds reasonable to me. Most of the earthquakes are of lower
magnitude than can be felt - some are bigger.

Also, some of the "Earthquakes" might just amount to releving stress
on the rocks in general and not the result of a fault slipping.

Another thing to consider is that if it really is possible to make a fault
slip a little bit due to fracking, then it would be worth doing that in
areas where known faults are likely to result in major earthquakes.

For instance, it would be better to have the San Andreas fault have an
( undetectable by humans ) magnitude 2.0 quake every week or so than
to have a magnitude 8 or so every sixty years.
You make some great points, but living in California and studying earthquakes for over 20 years I can tell you this.... The San Andreas (like many other major fault zones) are not single large faults, rather a series of faults. With that, if one section of the fault is slowly moving with a series of smaller quakes, it very well can be "locking up" another section which can build stress. In the big picture, the earth can break loose just about anywhere...As for NM, these quakes are normal and can produce some larger quakes.. but 4.5-6.5 will be the intensity of the majority of the quakes that do occur.
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Old 10-28-2011, 01:27 AM
 
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To be honest, the worst thing New Mexico gets are wildfires. Earthquakes and tornados I wouldn't lose sleep worrying.

Been in NM for 20+ years, and only a blizzard I'd say is something that affected me as far as natural disasters go.

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