4.5 Earthquake in Western KY

[conjur]

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I didn't feel it. Anyone else feel it? New Madrid fault going to give way and wipe out Memphis? 😀

 

[notfred]

4.5 is a pussy earthquake. That's like having a big truck drive past your house.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: notfred
4.5 is a pussy earthquake. That's like having a big truck drive past your house.

Do a little research on the New Madrid fault and get back to me. 4.5 is not much in California, but none of the buildings in the Midwest along the fault line were built to take any sort of earthquakes. Stupid? Yeah.

 

[Toasthead]

Originally posted by: X-Man

Originally posted by: notfred
4.5 is a pussy earthquake. That's like having a big truck drive past your house.

Do a little research on the New Madrid fault and get back to me. 4.5 is not much in California, but none of the buildings in the Midwest along the fault line were built to take any sort of earthquakes. Stupid? Yeah.

4.5 is weak! They are stupid a$$es if they dont prepare. Just because they are stupid and dont make buildings properly doenst make the quake any stronger.

 

[UNCjigga]

still...I don't think a 4.5 does much more damage than a fart in the wind. Don't you need at least 5.0 to do some sort of damage? There was a 4.9/5.0 back east near Tennessee/Georgia a few months ago and it didn't do any damage, even though it was felt as far away as Greensboro, NC and Virginia (none of the buildings here are earthquake-proofed either.)

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: Toasthead

Originally posted by: X-Man

Originally posted by: notfred
4.5 is a pussy earthquake. That's like having a big truck drive past your house.

Do a little research on the New Madrid fault and get back to me. 4.5 is not much in California, but none of the buildings in the Midwest along the fault line were built to take any sort of earthquakes. Stupid? Yeah.

4.5 is weak! They are stupid a$$es if they dont prepare. Just because they are stupid and dont make buildings properly doenst make the quake any stronger.

Because the soil in the central U.S. is looser and sandier than on the west coast, Clyburn says, ?the shockwaves from an earthquake would travel much farther and the same magnitude earthquake on the west coast would be about 10 times worse in the central U.S."

 

[TallBill]

4.5 is weak! They are stupid a$$es if they dont prepare. Just because they are stupid and dont make buildings properly doenst make the quake any stronger.

Its enough to do DAMAGE though in structures not meant to shake. Have you seen some of the buildings in kentucky?

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
still...I don't think a 4.5 does much more damage than a fart in the wind. Don't you need at least 5.0 to do some sort of damage? There was a 4.9/5.0 back east near Tennessee/Georgia a few months ago and it didn't do any damage, even though it was felt as far away as Greensboro, NC and Virginia (none of the buildings here are earthquake-proofed either.)

Richter scale measurments don't always tell the whole story. There are different "kinds" of quakes, some do more damage than others. It also depends on how far down the quake was, etc..

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: X-Man

Because the soil in the central U.S. is looser and sandier than on the west coast, Clyburn says, ?the shockwaves from an earthquake would travel much farther and the same magnitude earthquake on the west coast would be about 10 times worse in the central U.S."

...quake similar to that of 1811, which registered around 9.0 on the Richter scale.

:Q

A 9.0, even here in the west, would be devastating.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
still...I don't think a 4.5 does much more damage than a fart in the wind. Don't you need at least 5.0 to do some sort of damage? There was a 4.9/5.0 back east near Tennessee/Georgia a few months ago and it didn't do any damage, even though it was felt as far away as Greensboro, NC and Virginia (none of the buildings here are earthquake-proofed either.)

The damage caused by earthquakes varies. A major factor is what type of soil/bedrock the structures are built on. Also, note that the (edit: not damage, I guess it would be wave strength) caused by a 4.0 is 10x that of a 3.0.

 

[Ryan]

Yea, 4.5 is weak! I live on the east coast and even I know that is nothing.