[Giesela]

Cool report!

I felt the mid-80s one on the second floor of the building in
Ann Arbor. I also felt the 2008 here in Dayton. That one was sort of weird because it was 0530 in the am so very quiet and I was sitting at my computer on the first floor of a slabbed building so I got a really good feel for this very weird fluid gimbal'ed floor movement - that feeling has really stuck with me. Felt like nothing I've felt before.

[AlohaHuey]

I was in the Nisqually Quake in 2000...6.8. The seismic waves literally rippled the floor, the trees outside were swaying back and forth. There were two perceptible increases in the shaking, I'm not sure the house could have taken another. Minor damage to the belongings, but it could have been a lot worse.

[us66]

Originally Posted by Wingnatic

We just had one this summer didn't we ? I believe it was centered in Quebec . Also the have the Madrid fault in Missouri that is responsible for most of the quakes up here .

If that New Madrid fault goes, there goes St. Louis or Memphis, likely both and then some. Both aren't all that well prepared. I think there was a bad one about 200 years ago.

[danielj72]

Originally Posted by us66

If that New Madrid fault goes, there goes St. Louis or Memphis, likely both and then some. Both aren't all that well prepared. I think there was a bad one about 200 years ago.

We dont want to think about what happens if that fault goes. 200 years ago that quake broke foundations from the Canadian border all the way to the gulf of Mexico. Your right about st louis and Memphis, they will look like Port Au Prince. 200 years ago most states west of the mountains were mostly wilderness. If that ruptures like it did then, it will cause problems here, it will cause problems in most places in the midwest and south. It will devastate the mid mississippi valley completly.