A massive quake in Western Ky. created Reelfoot Lake and caused the Miss River to run backwards. I don't remember the exact year but believe it was in early 1900's. I felt a small one in the late 80's near Livingston Tenn. The New Madrid fault is very active.

When you are not use to earthquakes they can be a very scary event. I was there for the Virginia quake and nearly shat myself. I wish the people in Kentucky the best.

we had two so far, not sure why they only mentioned one, the last one was about 10 minutes ago not even, my fridge started moving lol, never felt one before but me and my daughter we kinda shocked, it was a little fun, didn't know we had them here in kentucky, lol

@ Caitlin: hahaha...yeah when they are not too big they are kind of fun (as odd as that sounds). I remember a couple times (out here in Cali) where our quakes were so big it tossed water out of my pool

Have to wonder if there was any fracking done in the area (drilling using high pressure liquids)??

FRACKING!

WoofWoof79~Thanks~ Think we are good, just some Shaking ~Rattling and Rollings Going One for what seemed like forever~ I have felt several here in the SE KY!

As our solar system passes through the Equinox, its gravity plane condenses causing the sun to gravitationally "Pressurize" in turn causing the sun to dispurse the excess in the form of Corona Ejections. These CEs are in the excess of trillions of Gauze magnitude in magnetic current and are shot off into space in a linear fashion which collides with other planetary body's magnetospheres which absorb the CE Gauze and route these CEs into its field which are then absorbed into that planet's mass inturn overcharging the planet's own stable gauze system thus indirectly causing occurances such as Emediant Gauze Wave Dispursement throughout the planet's magnetic and electrical systems which in turn cause earthquakes, animal mass die-offs from the Gauze Waves stopping the hearts of more sensitive animals such as fish, birds etc. Soon the Gauze Waves will become strong enough to stop human hearts as well, world wide. Gauze Waves also completely change weather patterns as well as pole shifts. This occurance happens every 36,000 years and you all are lucky enough to be on this planet while it is in such a cycle. The only known saftey measure is to board a gravitic space craft and leave the solar system for about 20 years and return later. Since the U.S. Military Industrial Complex is not sharing its Gravitic technology with the rest of the world then it is only them that get to leave to safety. Deep Underground Bases about 5 miles down will still be vulnerable to earthquakes. The safest zones on the planet are near the north or south poles where the Gauze Wave currents will be in a unison flow rather than a caotic dispursement such as the rest of the planet's geography.

who'd want to live in KY or Tenn anyway...both bass ackwards states! But then again...so is Cali (my home state) for different reasons...LOL

Hi John,

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I grew up 10 miles south of where this quake hit. While earthquakes are pretty rare in that part of the state, they do happen on a semi-regular basis. The Appalachian Mountains were formed by the collision between two continents, and there is still a certain amount of crustal tension that occasionally releases. There is a minor fault line that runs on top of Pine Mountain, the long fold mountain that extends for about 100 miles into Tennessee.

In 1991, someone predicted that SE Kentucky was going to receive a major earthquake, and while there were some minor tremors, the big one never hit. Hopefully, it never does.

The solar system passes through the Equinox? I did not know that.

Ouch, John! I live in Northern Ky across the Ohio river from Cinti, Ohio. That's a broad paintbrush there buddy! I have lived in Connecticut, Florida, Tennessee & Kentucky. I have traveled to many other states & countries & islands. I like living here in N. Ky. Not everyone is as depicted in Holly-weird. Ky & Tn have many, many intelligent, creative people living in these states. And while we have illegals, it's not as bad as your state. You should try it before you condemn it honey. It's modern & we have indoor plumbing too! :)) lol

I felt it. Thought somebody had slammed the basement door,lol. Then the ceiling fan starting vibrating. Maybe five to ten seconds. Some noticed it and some didn't.

Being from both Cali and Tenn I can tell John for a fact who is the most bass ackwards state. Not just between Cali and KY/Tenn but the entire nation. And it isn't Ky or Tenn. What other intelligence challenged folks would keep letting a moronic liberal State government continue to raise their taxes (income, sales, property) year after year after year for "their own good." And they vote yes, year after year, after year. Now, John...define true bass ackwards for us all again.

Half Cherokee: On some things you're near the ballpark. On others you made a wrong turn.

Having lived in Memphis for 25 years before moving to east Tennessee, I knew the history pretty well. If you're interested, here's the story:

http://www.reelfoot.com/new_madrid_earthquake.htm

My daughter was at home and felt the quake when it occurred. I was driving when it happened and didn't feel a thing.

John-900908, good one.

Half Cherokee All American

A massive quake in Western Ky. created Reelfoot Lake and caused the Miss River to run backwards. I don't remember the exact year but believe it was in early 1900's. I felt a small one in the late 80's near Livingston Tenn. The New Madrid fault is very active

The earthquake you are referring to happened back in the early 1800's.... These fault lines now appear active again. If one happens like back then, expect St Louis, Mo to be destroyed and have it felt from Chicago to Dallas

Jon Jones, as both a former resident of California and Tennessee (the latter of the two places being the one that was the place of my birth), I can tell you that BOTH places are a bit backwards when it comes to both politics and safety. As far as being prepared for earthquakes, Japan is even superior to the western part of the US when it comes to being prepared for earthquakes, namely because it has set the standards for the new earthquake resistant buildings, which gives the state of California an edge over the state of Tennessee. Conversely, California is ill-prepared for other things that Tennessee is good at dealing with, such as tornadoes. However, neither place is prepared for floods, though Tennessee has far more of them than California. Both places in this country would do well to learn from The Netherlands in this regard, and Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida would also benefit from such technology.

Just think of all the fractured (no pun intended) well casings that will now allow underground water contamination.

That would make for a nervous day inside Mammoth Cave.

Blaming the Fracking of wells is B.S. folks. It's just the natural movement of the tectonic plates.

What I find interesting is that a state in the Bible Belt would have a county name Letcher County. "Letcher" is an alternative spelling of "lecher", meaning a lewd man. I wonder if it was named that because they have a lot of old lechers there.

if the New Madrid fault would erupt as in did around 1800; the financial devastation would collapse the entire, American economy; it was so powerful that the Mississippi ran backwards for two days, and damage was felt as far away as Boston; it is one of the 3 biggest faults in North America. ( a footnote FEMA last year has ordered 10 million MRE meals to be delivered before 2013, the RFP that went out was labeled" new Madrid fault emergency meal purchase "

Stephen Nichols"Blaming the Fracking of wells is B.S. folks. It's just the natural movement of the tectonic plates."

You probably also believe fracking doesn't contaminate water.

Bloomberg News 10-3-12
WASHINGTON — Methane in two Pennsylvania water wells has a chemical
fingerprint that links it to natural gas produced by hydraulic fracturing,
evidence that such drilling can pollute drinking water.

VonBraun is an idiot people. Please do not listen to him. All the particles from a CE combined hardly weigh anything compared to the Earth. The gravitational effect from the moon is much larger than anything from a coronal ejection (CE) event, and the moon is doing that everyday (think tides people). VonBraun is NOT intelligent in this area and should find something else to do...

D antiX - You probably also believe fracking doesn't contaminate water.

Stephen Nichols is just one more of those Uneducated of America and or Greedy if it does not happen to me, me, me, me, so what.

Flammable drinking water

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=flamable+drinking+water&view=detail&mid=74F1EE8781A026BA8F7974F1EE8781A026BA8F79&first=0

Can CE's penetrate solid granite?

saxon - a footnote FEMA last year has ordered 10 million MRE meals to be delivered before 2013, the RFP that went out was labeled" new Madrid fault emergency meal purchase "

That's a lot of people going hungry. As unlike those of us that fortunely or unfortunely attended the harsh US Military Asymmetric Warfare Schools, most do not know how to ration one MRE to last for days (eat just enough to survive); so 10 million divided by 3 meals a day.

BTW, Von Braun, it's "Gauss", not "Gauze". Millions of Gauze would be delightful for mummies, but that's about it. Work a little harder on you pseudo-scientific nonsense, please.

TiredOfAllTheIgnorance - Can CE's penetrate solid granite?

Can less density gama radiation penetrate solid granite, YES.

So when they built the Cold War Era Underground Bunkers (Under Mountains, like high density granite) the concrete also included additives to increase density against gama radiation; as well as a Faraday Cage against EMP and EMR inside the walls.

Without disclosing classified, the concepts that resulted in nuclear weapons to destroy underground nuclear C4I bunkers came from "natural sources", these were later "outlawed" as by destroying the underground C4I bunkers with those having the Nuclear (weapons) Control Orders or being the National Command Authority an escalation of a Earth Ending Event (EEE), Thermo Nuclear War, could not be stopped.

Some of the recorded Solar Coronal Ejections are bigger than the entire Earth. What saves the Earth from the direct effects of Solar Coronal Ejections is the vast distance as well as the timing (rotation, not being in the direct path) and the other planets (including the other planets gravitational fields). Statistically our mathematical "luck" is running out, more "Solar Activity" more likely a significant Solar Coronal Ejection will hit (like Nuclear Weapons a near hit is just as devastating as a direct hit, just not instantaneous effects.).

Even Stephen Hawking believes that humans will have to leave the planet because the odds are the earth will be hit by something. In the mean time-

They tell me the fault line runs right through here

What's gonna be, is gonna be

What's gonna happen, is gonna happen to me that's the way it appears.

They tell me the fault line runs right through here.

add to post #1.32 above:

Coronal Mass Ejection June 7, 2011

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=coronal+ejection+&view=detail&mid=8FD297641C0A44EBA7528FD297641C0A44EBA752&first=0

rufusthedog - What's gonna be, is gonna be

That was the same mentality of those (RIP) that remained at New Jersey, New York, New Orleans, etc. instead of evacuating.

Damn, VonBraun beat me to it. I was just going to mention the same thing, word for word.

David475776- It was a popular song lighten up. Besides, I'm not evacuating from the earth bottom line. There will be no one left to rescue. So don't worry about it. I'm up for evacuation for other things though.

Thank you, DW! I stopped reading vonBraun's post at the word "Gauze", when I realized that he meant "Gauss". What a maroon!

Yep Will...I can definitely discern what that means. Bumpkins will be bumpkins and both KY and TN are full of them.

Oh...and F&$K you too!

@ Jon Jones:

KY and TN are full of snag tooth bumpkins...old confederate hacks who sit on their rocking chairs and bitterly reminisce about the "good ol' days" when discrimination was practiced outright. Uneducated and bitter....hmmm do you ever wonder why people refer to the middle of Pennsylvania btwn Pittsburgh and Philly as "Pennsyltucky?" Says alot about KY's reputation, doesn't it....so yes KY and TN are still bass ackwards!

Stephen: I'm pretty sure the fracking nonsense was a joke

@John

Yep Will...I can definitely discern what that means. Bumpkins will be bumpkins and both KY and TN are full of them.

Of course, that being said, there is a reason I moved out of the region. It certainly has its share of uneducated idiots who are rednecks and proud of it, and that grinded on my nerves. All the same, not EVERYONE there falls into this category. Of course, uneducated idiots can be found anywhere you go. For example, take the average dude walking down the street in South Philly. His high school sucked, he barely knows how to read, and his whole family is racist. "Hey, yuz guys, what's that n***** doing walkin down our street!?!"

Wow, the search engines must be down or something. Look up 1811, the New Madrid Fault system. What happened in 1811 occurs on a regular basis every 500 years or so; next time for that one might be in 2300 or so. Every hundred years or so there is a fairly large quake associated with that system (we are overdue for that), but it isn't nearly as big as the quakes (multiple) that happened in 1811, where there were sand geysers, trees down, and the sturdy log cabins went down (least prone to earthquake damage because the wood bends and is fit together, not nailed). It also coincided with the first steamboat to travel down the Mississippi from Pittsburgh, and people thought the steamboat was an omen of doom because of it. It is said that Tecumsah's curse caused it; maybe the day it occurred, but the land was due for its 500 year heavy shake. It also changed the state lines of Kentucky and Tennessee, which had followed the Mississippi, but suddenly there was disputed territory because the river had changed shape. The river changed direction too for some hours or days, with waterfalls going upstream, and Reelfoot Lake was created.

At the same time, the motion of the quake traveled through the eastern part of the country, not like a more localized California quake. Chimneys toppled in Boston and Washington D.C. Small quakes in the New Madrid fault system are felt much farther away than a California quake.

Therefore, if such a quake occurs again, it may destroy a few cities, and serious damage could occur as far away as Cincinnati. So long Elvis.

It is said that a comet appeared before the quake, but comets appear occasionally. Major quakes occur frequently in other parts of the world, such as the Pacific "ring of fire."

As to the "solar equinox," the earth's "equinox" has to do with the sun and the tilt of the earth, and not a gravity pulse. Alien technology could be interesting if people would produce it, but most of what people have been telling themselves is just a way to scare themselves. When we look toward the other side of the Milky Way, it is so many light-years away that we are looking into the distant past, and any time/space/gravity wave at least would be visible before it got here, in the way other stars react. For those interested in astronomy, demand that planetariums put on longer live shows instead of the very short dumbed-down NY Planetarium movie narrated by Robert Redford. If you find a dark sky and look with a telescope or strong binoculars, the sky is so beautiful that you will be wondering why you didn't try the hobby sooner.

And, it was Bush who outsourced to China, final note is to blame Obama for earthquakes? The sun came up: blame Obama. The sun went down: blame Obama. Romney lost: blame Obama (that one is the only right answer).

I worked for an oil brokerage in the 1970s, and it was our then ally Libya that had high-sulfur oil, and then they couldn't sell it, not even with Billy Carter's help. Our acid rain came from the burning of COAL, which still causes arsenic and mercury in water from slag heaps. (Yep, clean coal).

Pres. Obama did nothing to stop coal (blame Obama). Pres. Obama is regulating coal (blame Obama).

Sure a lot of "saber-rattling" has had an effect on world politics, but OPEC decided to sell to the oil brokers because they made a huge fortune from us, and since that time, everybody else's salaries have flat-lined. You can't blame Obama, and it would be nice to blame Reagan, but it is probably better to blame OPEC that really caused it, and also our "addiction to oil" (Bush's words). Sure we use plastics in a lot of products, and the use of oil isn't going away soon, but it would drop off greatly if we changed our main fuel sources, and if we reused plastics including the tons sitting in the Pacific in the gyre north of Hawaii right now.

The world could end, and everybody become a mutant zombie, and it would probably be caused by any number of environmental disasters that have already occurred, including radioactive fish in the Pacific and PVCs (vinyl) in the Great Lakes, coal slag, and lots of other garbage. Add fracking to is, and yes, it does pollute and cause earthquakes, and most of the LNG (liquid natural gas) is sold to foreign countries, not used here at all.

This quake was probably not due to fracking. The depth of the epicenter was actually 12 miles deep not 0.7 miles. That's way out of reach of fracking operations.

I have no doubt that fracking is at the root of many of these other small quakes east of the Rockies that are less than a few miles deep though.

VanBraun...Great story..Not just anybody that can spin a yarn at that level..I was betting on plain ol' plate tetonics myself.. Now I know where the Republican spinners go after elections.. This must be a resume'..

Van Braun

If you are not already, you should be writing for the Sci Fy channel. Well done.

VonBraun, don't worry. You'll be OK as long as you keep wearing your tinfoil hat.

Yup... I told my mother-in-law the same thing basically when she posted about the quake on Facebook hehe.

Geologic structure and rock properties on the East Coast allow seismic waves to travel farther without weakening compared with the West Coast. The Earth's crust beneath the Eastern U.S. is older and colder than out West. The fault lines are more healed. As a result, the East is far less seismically active -- but when earthquakes do hit, that hard ground is far more effective and conducting the seismic waves. When you hit it, it rings like a bell.

hahaha @ Gettin' Grity: so true! I would have slept through the Northridge quake, but my mom (a native Texan...lol) ran in to the room screaming EARTHQUAKE...EARRRRTHQUAAAAAAKE!!!

branxoz shut the @!$%# up. Just shut... the... @!$%#... up. Earthquakes are a natural phenomenon. It has nothing to do with your make believe invisible spooky sky-dwelling fairy tale. I swear I hope you don't breed, because idiots like you, whose thinking should have died out back in the dark ages, do not need to populate this planet with offspring who share your moronic thoughts.

Adam L:

Struck a nerve, did he? LOL!!

Do yourself a favor, click the ignore author, and save yourself a naturally occurring coronary!

Actually they're near a huge fault line.

The Earth is very much alive and active, unless you don't regard the field of science as having any credibility. :)

google "new madrid fault". Hugh one in 1700's formed Reelfoot Lake, TN, made the Mississippi River run backwards and on and on. If /when it hits again damage will probably be from NY to south midwest. Minor tremors are felt in that area of KY-Mo-Ark, etc.

A long time ago diana-1091347

Master Joseph

The Earth is not alive.

There is a small fault in Kentucky called the New Madrid. It's nowhere near as bad as the San Andreas, but there are tremors occasionally. This is the third in the past 5 years, the second with the epicenter actually located in Kentucky. However, I heard that this one cannot be linked to a specific fault.

parts of kentucky is on the new madrid fault

The western part of KY is on the New Madrid fault line. We don't get tremors very often and when we do they aren't real bad

WoofWoof - why do you say such a thing? The plant life that spurred from this Earth millions of years ago was 'alive'. Organic matter spawned from inorganic matter, so this leads me to believe that even rocks, metal, and dirt contain some sort of underlying characteristic or building blocks of 'life' - whatever it may be. Better yet, we are alive. Are we not a part - a piece of this Earth? Maybe this planet is far more a part of us than most people would think? The last thought I'd like to leave you with: your perception of 'life' is relative to what you have seen in only a very, very short span of time on a very, very, VERY small sliver of an entire universe. Life might not be so stringently defined. Then again, I really have no idea. My point is that you must test your beliefs - to me, our Earth seems very much alive. To what extent - I do not know, but perhaps, if people were to think about this, our paradigm might shift to a point where we have a newfound respect for this little lump of rock we live upon.. :)

There is a small fault in Kentucky called the New Madrid. It's nowhere near as bad as the San Andreas, but there are tremors occasionally.

I guess it depends on your definition of "bad." The New Madrid earthquake(s) of 1811-1812 are estimated to rate between 7.5 and 8.0 (the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 is estimated at about 7.8).

Tim874396

You mean the solar system isn't going through the equinox? I'm crushed.

The way I understand it, The New Madrid is not a "fault" as is the case with San Andreas for example. What the deal is, is that New Madrid is the center of a large plate. There are faults moving far on either side of it. The effect would be the same as taking a large piece of paper (say the size of a newspaper) lay it on the floor, put your hands on either side of center and move one hand down towards you and the other up away from you, pushing down. You will see the paper buckle in the middle if you execute the movement properly. You will get some idea of how much energy will be expended.

Having a "fault" under you is a much better option as I understand it.

Look up New Madrid Fault 1811, and then say "small." It only murmurs slightly, but every hundred years there is a moderate to strong quake, and every five hundred years a massive quake bigger than anything that the San Andreas ever has or will do, and felt much farther away.

I can't believe how many people post stuff without looking up at least a date and a few specifics.

et220: They can't "find" the fault, yet they call it a "failed rift." Think of the African rift, or the Mid-Atlantic rift, complete with volcanoes, and that is the kind of thing some scientists think. Others think it is left over deep ridge of some kind from the end of the last ice age, but the earthquake comes in clearly defined geological periods of 500 years or so; the previous one (before 1811) was around 1300. The more information one reads about it, the more confusing the cause, but there is the geological evidence of its periods, and they know that it is devastating every time the 500 year clock is up. The 100 year or so clock only causes some islands in the Mississippi to appear or disappear; one occurred during the Civil War that played a part.

Trees from the Ozarks have an uncanny ability to root. For most trees, they won't sprout again if you shred the stump. Those Ozark trees will resprout if there is a sliver of a root left, even if a tree itself is hollow and falling down because it can't deal with cold weather. (The black locust is a bad invasive species in Ohio.) Trees are shredded down to the roots in one of those earthquakes, but the trees come right back; it is a pattern that shows a long history of these occurrences.

This quake is too far away from the Madrid fault zone to be related to it. It's at the foot of the Appalachians and is probably related to Appalachian mountain fault zones. On google maps in terrain view, the area is right next to what looks like a surface fault zone at the western side of the Appalachian mountain range.

This is the USGS link and has a link to the google maps coordinates and other info.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/se111012a#summary

LOL. They had another tremor about 10 minutes later; that must be Rand Paul having a tantrum.

Between the earthquake and the fiscal cliff I don't know where Papa Mitch can stand.

Earthquake in Ketucky? What the @!$%#y??

I felt it. I live in Morristown, TN. You can see it at the bottom of the map. My house physically shook for about 30 seconds and the glass in my front door buzzed for longer than that. It sounded like a train was driving down my street.

You point of contention makes no sense...idiot!

i guess the jokes on you bigger idiot

Made sense to me and it was hilarious!

Nope nothing global just local ground shaking.

sigh...bumpkins will be bumpkins

More like God disapproving the mandate of Mitch McConnell to bring the nation to its knees. You folks voted for old turtleface.

Can't blame us...my county went Romney.

mitch looks like howdy doody to me. anyone else think so??

does mitch ever show teeth or smile???? it must be years and years since he has had a good 'gawfaw'.

Hope mitch opens his eyes and goes with the people instead of being a sore looser**

No Bama-it's over. Move on.

No Bama 2008 -- "factoring in leap years the event scheduled for december 21 should have happened 7 months ago"

No, no, no. This turn of the Mayan calendar is "scheduled" for the winter solstice (always December 21 or 22). Could it be that the Mayans had a much more accurate way of telling time than we do now? I think so, but you probably think that your way of thinking is the best.

By the way, I fully expect to wake up December 22, and December 23, and so on, enjoying the continued recovery of our nation under the capable leadership of President Obama, for FOUR MORE YEARS!

Just more TNT blasts from the coal mine (Murray Energy's CEO venting his post-election anger)

Don't know about oil company but they are drilling gas wells like hell all around this part of the country.

Okicize: Fracking is probably the cause. There was a similar earthquake in Youngstown, Ohio caused by fracking that put cracks into people's houses.

I live in Fentress Co, Tn. Shook pretty good here to.

oh get over it...it was a 4.3! Nothing to write home about...time to move about the day

I live in Hamblen Co. My mom and I live on opposite ends of the county and we both felt it.

Guess that's the whole for them happening in California as well.. RANDOM!!!

Funny you say that Amanda b/c we have not had a "BIG ONE" in a really long time...ummmmmmmmm knocking on wood as I type this...lol

We had some 3s and 4s around here in California 3 months ago. Methinks one of them made the local tv news.

I am far more concerned about all of those fires, tornadoes, and hurricanes you people back there get. Scary!

WOW- that was way off the wall as a comment. Literally no way "removing a mountain top" is making a big difference in weight distribution in the earths crust. If that was the case the added weight of NYC and San Fransisco would have already caused those areas to sink out of sight from the weight.

A lovely sentiment......

NacioS...and exactly what is that supposed to mean? hahahaha

Which scientific data is this based on?????

oh gawd...don't feed the dumb trolls...that's not even fun! it's just sad

Yeap they are. They're fracking like hell and stripping like mofo's. That's no joke either.

Well Shelley, don't leave us in suspense. Did your husband feel the quake or not?

roflmao

The TRUTH must really Hurtcha Joe.Those of Us who are'nt suffering the Effects of Amnesia Know Most was Chicken Georges Fault. Hey Joe, has Any of That Iraqi Oil come online yet, Most of us are waiting anxiously for ALL that Revenue to start comeing into the U S Treasury, so we can start Paying Off Bushes DEBT!

But if it makes ya feel better about yourself, Rock On!

Amanda, it was felt here in My part of E.Ky also. 2 Tornados & Earthquake tremors in the last 18 months.

Both political parties are obstacles in the way of any solutions to our country's problems. Congress is made up of two parties, and from the two parties' hands our problems began.

Let's stop politicizing everything we think, say, and do. Shall we?

Right on Cali.

Rick,Ky - The TRUTH must really Hurtcha Joe.Those of Us who are'nt suffering the Effects of Amnesia Know Most was Chicken Georges Fault. Hey Joe, has Any of That Iraqi Oil come online yet, Most of us are waiting anxiously for ALL that Revenue to start comeing into the U S Treasury, so we can start Paying Off Bushes DEBT!

Talk about you having "Effects of Amnesia" and those that voted for your post being Uneducated.

First the War At Iraq as Operation Iraqis Freedom was the Result of President Clinton's US Law, H.R. 4655 "Iraqis Liberation Act of 1998" Justification Section 2 Weapons of Mass Destruction, Section 3 US Policy Overthrow of President Hussein, with US Congressional Appropriations. President Clinton's FAILED Attemp being US Military Operation Desert Fox, that resulted in the Islamic World naming the US the Great Satan.

Due to President Obama's Policies, the US And US Allies Permanently Lost the Iraqis Oil that could have paid for the US And US Allies Liberation of Iraq with Decades to Centuries of Iraqis Oil, to the Allies of the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran, the Chinese and Russian Federation.

Interest on the National Debt: Clinton $18.9 Billion. Bush $16.6 Billion. President Clinton's "Budget Surplus" was US Congress "Sandbagging" by giving President Clinton more money than he could spend.

Hint: It was NOT President Bush that was dumb enough to eliminate those US Laws that made Illegal the Causes of previous Depressions; that later resulted in the current $60 Trillion to $100 Trillion Global Economic Crisis consisting of the Mortgage Crisis, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, Credit Crisis, etc..

You want to play the Blame Game at least Blame those that caused the problems, LEARN to do a Causative Timeline instead of believing Politicians (especially Lawyers trained to LIE to win their Arguements (Legal Cases) by any means; that became US Politicians):

Voters
Politicians manipulate voters every day with half-truths -- or outright lies -- about taxes, spending and many other issues that directly affect the nation's prosperity.

Too many voters embrace feel-good propaganda that they want to hear instead of learning the basic facts about issues they care about. They should do a better job of calling out dishonest politicians -- and shunning media outlets that stoke political food fights.

http://money.msn.com/investing/11-things-wrong-with-congress

good call Joe-30163 .. ! Two generations of Bush Oil men in the White House put 'oil' on the political map. More than likely, as you said, it IS Bush's "fault".....

That's no wonder--since you live in a tractor-trailer.

I am a 4th generation Californian. In 1999 I felt a 1.9 when the epicenter was a mile away. I had to keep my computer monitor from falling off my desk. I'm in the North Bay area.

So it really depends on how far away from epicenter as well as the depth of the earthquake. The type is also a factor.

The only time I felt an earthquake was once when camping in the mountains of Colorado. It was enough to wake me from my sleep. I looked at my watch, noted the time, and went back to sleep. A few days later when I got back to Denver I checked around but there was no news of any earthquake in Colorado. There was, however, a medium magnitude earthquake in California -- at that exact time! I can only wonder about the science behind what enabled me to feel it on that mountain in Colorado.

Is drunken stupor a science?

COinFL: Next time you note an earthquake's time, and find out that it was at some distance, please notify the USGS (United States Geological Survey), at their dot gov website. They want to know how far away shaking occurs. You don't have to contact them the same day the event happens, but make a note of the time and place.

Need to evacuate the people in the area over a long period of time.

Then set off deep underground high yield low radiation nuclear weapons* to trigger the New Madrid. Similar to the US idea to dig a canal between Texas, New Mexico, Arizonia, California and Mexico to replace the Panama Canal.

Then afterwards repopulate the areas.

*previous US Military Career Field Nuclear (Weapons) Physics.

David, are you suggesting that a plan to trigger New Madrid might be implemented?

David: There are a lot of ideas that DARPA and Rand used to think up, such as spraying dark paint all over the arctic to cause the arctic ice to go away so that they could have more shipping and drilling (see the book "A Beautiful Mind" that lists such projects from the 1950s).

The New Madrid Fault reflects its energy eastward: you intend to get rid of all cities and buildings east of the Rocky Mountains. Why I may ask? Or, you could open up the rift in a way greater than Reelfoot Lake, and we could have a version of the Nygiragongo Volcano; great tourist attraction, and maybe they could grow coffee on its slopes, but it would most likely set off the Rocky Mountain volcano chain and the great super volcano of Yellowstone. And then what would you have in your picanic basket, Bubba?

good to see that someone else is checking seismic activity. The Alabama quake was surprising, I've been watching the activity in the gulf area as it might be related to Bayou Corne, LA. The movements in the east are not good. Especiallly the movements in Southern Ontario, Quebec, & New England. St. Lawrence is a gigantic rift that connects with New Madrid. A submersible went down and surveyed the bottom of lake Ontario: What a mindblower! Movement on that thing could reek havoc all over the place.

They pump water in to replace the oil slush..... and water is explosive under certain conditions when it does not mix with hot materials that run deep inside our Earth. It's like heating a skillet on your stove and adding a little cooking oil.... then placing a piece of meat that has water droplets on it.... you hear that 'pop. pop' sound and the hot oil it sent flying out of the skillet....

we have damaged our Earth.... now we don't know how to fix it.

My sister lived in Napa in September 2000. There was a 5.0 earthquake that hit. It emptied all her kitchen cupboards. What a mess.

9 months in California is not a very fair assessment.

It probably won't make you feel any better, KYLAN, but there's a fault line running under one of the I-75 bridges across the Kentucky River. Its a popular destination for geology class field trips from EKU. Think of that the next time you're driving to Lexington!

Carol, You really should not write about thing of which you have abosolutely no knowledge! It makes you look dumber than you might be! If fracking causes quakes,then there would be a substanital increase where ever fracking is being done.Like in Wyoming,North Dakota,Canada,Pennsylvania and New Jersey.That is not the case.The New Madres fault runs diagonally west to east across MO ,parts of Ohio and Kentucky.The largest quake ever recorded in the Continental Unite States was in MO. in the late 1800's.Larger than the Alaskan quake of the 1960's.This fault has become very active over the past 15 years and you can expect more,more definative quakes in the future,with or without fracking!

There are movers and shakers, that was a rattle. Fracking is blasphemy to Obama.

Carol you heard wrong. You are listening to obstuctionists.

Why such verbal assaults on Carol for simply raising a question? That's how problems find solutions, folks. I do know that hydraulic fracturing does cause microquakes, and hydraulic fracturing is a part of the fracking process.

When we think we know everything, we cease to learn anything new. That's the beauty of science and research, if done correctly.

She is a Fracking Idiot!

mas and the naysayers: None of you live in Youngstown, Ohio, which never had earthquakes geologically until fracking. Now there are houses with cracks in them.