Earthquake near San Antonio? (Beeville, Poth: home, buy, live)

[elnina]

A 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit south of San Antonio Saturday morning according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The quake was centered approximately 16 miles southwest of Poth, near Fashing in Atascosa County. The earthquake was 3 miles deep.

[huckster]

I saw the unsettling news on MYSA Elnina, about the Earthquake.
Probably due to Fracking in that area. Interesting. I did not feel a thing and so have never experienced
one.

[ranchodrive]

Originally Posted by huckster

I saw the unsettling news on MYSA Elnina, about the Earthquake.
Probably due to Fracking in that area. Interesting. I did not feel a thing and so have never experienced
one.

I was working at a store in the camera & jewelry department.
The glass display shelves started shaking with items falling everywhere.
This was in Los Angeles.
It lasted less than a minute.
The local people said it was a mild tremor or temblor.

I felt at the time that no matter where I went, the ground would cave in.

That was the last straw, I moved back to good old San Antonio!

[raisins99]

Oh good lord, now earthquakes? Earthquakes are the one natural disaster that I've committed myself to avoiding at all costs. This is not good. Not good at all. I have almost no extra money to move again after only arriving last month. I don't even know how I'm going to drive around without worrying the bridges will start falling or the ground will open up.

[Azure110]

Originally Posted by raisins99

Oh good lord, now earthquakes? Earthquakes are the one natural disaster that I've committed myself to avoiding at all costs. This is not good. Not good at all. I have almost no extra money to move again after only arriving last month. I don't even know how I'm going to drive around without worrying the bridges will start falling or the ground will open up.

Calm down. This one didn’t even cause any damage or get police calls according to the news report I read.

[huckster]

99 Raisins. Buy an earthquake proof home and walk every place. If the ground begins to quake....hit the dirt!

Originally Posted by raisins99

Oh good lord, now earthquakes? Earthquakes are the one natural disaster that I've committed myself to avoiding at all costs. This is not good. Not good at all. I have almost no extra money to move again after only arriving last month. I don't even know how I'm going to drive around without worrying the bridges will start falling or the ground will open up.

[TrapperL]

Been earthquakes down in that part of the country since I was a kid and I'm 70. There's geothermal water available too. Most folks with wells in that part of Texas have cooling towers so they can drink the water without burning themselves up. Get southeast of Poth and the ground is saturated with uranium. A 3.5 ground shaker for that area is a fairly major event. Usually the quakes are less than 3.0. Most often you can be in the middle of an earthquake down there and not even know it happened. Been in several myself and not known it happened.

[raisins99]

Originally Posted by Azure110

Calm down. This one didn’t even cause any damage or get police calls according to the news report I read.

Stop patronizing me. I am allowed to feel uncomfortable with earthquakes. If this is due to fracking, then perhaps like OK it will only increase in frequency and intensity. It's something that it's reasonable to be concerned about.

[huckster]

The further you go towards the Gulf apparently, the worse the water gets too.
Well Water in Beeville,tx was so bad as to render it undrinkable to me. Sulfur like, foul, stench. Rotten eggs malodorous, make you sick quality water. Nothing could disguise the odor.
I never saw any water, like the water from there. Unbelievably bad. I mean bad, real bad.

[raisins99]

I was visiting someone who lives nearish there (on that same highway where Beville is) and there was such a sulfur smell in their house. They only served bottled water. I guess that's what it was? That's crazy! Is this also from the fracking and other drilling?