This makes 4 or 5 in the last few months?
#41
04-09-2010, 01:51 PM
I was 2 when the eartquake that created "Quake Lake" up in Montana happened, back in 1959. For us that was huge! We lived outside of Whitehall MT...about 95 miles northwest of the epicenter. The barn was knocked of it's foundation. The outer walls of the house were "terra cotta" and it all was cracked, and some fell off. Mom had Dad paint that house pink after it was fixed. It was still pink back in 1983...the last time I saw the house!
Quake Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As an adult, I slept thru 2, 5+ quakes in Californina. One of them was while I was in a motel room in ElCentro in 1985. The other, in 1983, I was on an oil well location in the Elk Hills west of Bakersfield. That one woke me up. It was the "Colinga Quake". When the truck started shaking, I was pissed cuz I had barely fallen asleep, and we weren't supposed to be needed for 14 or 15 hours. I thought someone had hopped on the running board and started rocking the truck! 1983 Coalinga earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1987 I was in an office at the DOW Chemical plant in Torrance CA, when the "Whittier Quake" popped off. That was scarey. The building was 3 stories, and built from cinder block. I was in my office, on the first floor, and instead of standing in a doorway, I went out into the truck parking lot. Scareier yet. As I stood on the lot, our silo's were rocking back and forth, and you could see the truck lot rippling like waves were rolling under the asphalt! I remember seeing on the news that it was a relatively shallow quake. Seeing that parking lot ripple was spookey! 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 2001, I was driving on Hiway 8, about 18 miles southwest of Olympia WA, on my way to Aberdeen with a load of gasoline, when a big sucker hit! I felt the truck swaying as Irolled along on cruise control, and thought that the DOT must have messed up the asphalt when they repaved that stretch of road. Found out when I reached Aberdeen what had actually happened! uwnews.org | Nisqually quake moved Puget Sound region to the southwest | University of Washington News and Information Since moving to Texas, I have been subjected to such mundane things as Hurricane Rita and hurricane Ike. Katrina was over rated. :clap:
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#42
04-09-2010, 11:27 PM
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The ones in and near Jones tend to be just 5 miles deep. Other locations have had them that are up to 20 miles deep. Sort of makes one wonder.
How deep are the oil wells in the area? A few were 10 miles deep, but for plates to shift, at that depth, doesn't there have to be magma just below that? Just like ice bergs, in order for things to bump and grind, you have to have them floating on something. How many dormant volcanoes are there in that area?
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#43
04-10-2010, 05:18 AM
The ones in and near Jones tend to be just 5 miles deep. Other locations have had them that are up to 20 miles deep. Sort of makes one wonder.
How deep are the oil wells in the area? A few were 10 miles deep, but for plates to shift, at that depth, doesn't there have to be magma just below that? Just like ice bergs, in order for things to bump and grind, you have to have them floating on something. How many dormant volcanoes are there in that area? VOLCANOES!!! I never heard of one of them around here, dormant or otherwise. If I do you'll be the first to know. I'll have to ask one of the "talking heads" at work about it.
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04-10-2010, 11:32 AM
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As far as the depth of the oil wells, they are ALL different. We have them from 100 to 100's of feet. That is from one of my brother's in law, who is in the oil buiz, and one who is in the natural gas buiz.
VOLCANOES!!! I never heard of one of them around here, dormant or otherwise. If I do you'll be the first to know. I'll have to ask one of the "talking heads" at work about it.
Quartz Mountain State Park - Wichita Mountains:1
The southern part of Oklahoma tried to split (rift) away from the northern part of Oklahoma about 550 million years ago, but failed. Some of the evidence for this attempted split is found in the granites of southern Oklahoma, like those at Quartz Mountain State Park. The attempted rift resulted in a zone of weakness in the Earth's crust that was exploited by rising magma. Some of the magmas erupted at the surface; other magmas cooled beneath the surface forming the Wichita Mountains granites. I remember, a few years ago, crossing from CO to the east. I thought it was in Northern Texas, but I remember going past a couple of mountains standing alone, and the signage stated that the mountains were "extinct" volcanoes. However, a more recent definition states that there is no such thing as an "extinct" volcano. Instead, they've simply been dormant for the last several thousand, or hundred thousand years. They could wake up at any time.
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#45
04-10-2010, 11:33 AM
 Google "plate tectonics" both web and images (you'll learn what crustal plates float on). Start with the Wickipedia article. Google "plate tectonics plate thickness" Google "Oklahoma geology" web and images Google "Oklahoma seismic history" Google "New Madrid Seismic Zone" or "New Madrid Earthquake" Answer to your question is NO. Buy and read "Geology Illustrated" by John S. Shelton. You'll find it on Amazon. Don't go to the Weather Channel for earthquake info; that's like going to you wife's hair dresser and asking if you need an in-frame. You'll find YouTube clips about geologists, geology, plate tectonics, etc.
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04-11-2010, 03:01 AM
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Google "plate tectonics" both web and images (you'll learn what crustal plates float on). Start with the Wickipedia article. Google "plate tectonics plate thickness" Google "Oklahoma geology" web and images Google "Oklahoma seismic history" Google "New Madrid Seismic Zone" or "New Madrid Earthquake" Answer to your question is NO. Buy and read "Geology Illustrated" by John S. Shelton. You'll find it on Amazon. Don't go to the Weather Channel for earthquake info; that's like going to you wife's hair dresser and asking if you need an in-frame. You'll find YouTube clips about geologists, geology, plate tectonics, etc.
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#50
04-11-2010, 03:11 AM
My area of "hobby research" has been archeology, rather than seismology. I thank you for the information, and will follow it up in the very near future... I promise. I'll be reading it with a good deal of interest, because I'm not the only one that feels there's a whole lot o shakin goin on lately. There are a number of sites where questions are being asked. Even found something about it on Craigslist.
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