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I've heard that NC and the fault line that separates the Piedmont from the coastal plain have a lot of very small quakes all the time, which we rarely feel.
 
Epicenter was 10 miles as the crow flies, from my place in Laurel Springs. Hope it didn't shake my tree stand down.
 
Was on vacation in a house near Little Switzerland. Sitting on the center of the deck enjoying my coffee when I thought someone was running up the spiral staircase in the middle of the house in line with me. Didn't occur to me that it's isolated from the deck and shouldn't shake the house. It was about an hour before I saw the news.

A hurricane before I left for vacation and now an earthquake while I'm there. Might need to ponder on this a bit.
 
Mack270 said:
Was on vacation in a house near Little Switzerland. Sitting on the center of the deck enjoying my coffee when I thought someone was running up the spiral staircase in the middle of the house in line with me. Didn't occur to me that it's isolated from the deck and shouldn't shake the house. It was about an hour before I saw the news.

A hurricane before I left for vacation and now an earthquake while I'm there. Might need to ponder on this a bit.
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You’re hereby ordered to stay put at home!
 
Happened at about the exact time I was getting up this morning and never felt a thing. The one about 8 years ago that damaged the Washington Monument I felt pretty good.......the whole house shook and splashed water from the aquarium onto the floor.
 
CZfool68 said:
One of the big ones in Seattle was like this one to me. More of a rolling feel. Or swaying. The bigger one I was in out there was more of a sharp jarring. I’ve got no clue what the difference is or was, but different quakes seem to have different effects on the earth.
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I'm sure it has to do with the underlying strata and faults. The earth is not uniform in composition. We even see that superficially when we talk about the sandy coast or red clay piedmont. I'm pretty close ot the mountain range with lots of glacial rock, so I would expect more. Remember that one in CA where that whole area was built out with land fills? They say it undulated like waves.

Side note: Nikola Tesla did a lot of work with harmonics on a large scale. He speculated that he could actually destroy the earth with harmonics. Lucky, it was the irregularity of earths composition that kept him from successfully trying it.
 
TripleO7 said:
IIRC there was a major one in the Charleston area way back in the 1800's?.
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Late 1800’s. This 1830 house was in the family till 1900 in Cumberland county NC. The chimney stands off from the house about 6” due to that quake.
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Felt it here in Sanford this morning.
One of our cats has the bad habit of rattling doors when they are closed. That's what I thought at first until the house shook. Have a nice hairline crack in the living room drywall now.
 
I thought dogs were supposed to have some kind of extra sensory perception about these things. Felt like the house moved up and down twice. Dogs just laying there, did not even look up. Went outside, checked around, scratched my head and went back to what ever I was doing. Girlfriend called later and asked if I felt it, so then I had a "a ha" moment.
 
Let's see - Novel Coronavirus for most of 2020, hurricane and earthquake for August. What's your best guesses for September?
 
Nibiru

Ok, maybe not Nibiru, but, I have noticed an increase in near earth objects over the last few years. I think that's a high likelihood.
 
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dmarbell said:
Let's see - Novel Coronavirus for most of 2020, hurricane and earthquake for August. What's your best guesses for September?
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The Daily Double.

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SPST said:
Maybe an asteroid is next for 2020?
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Would have to be a big asteroid to press the reset button on these crazy times we’re in. I really do think it’s going to have to be something catastrophic before things will simmer down.
 
Catfish said:
Not sure but I'm re-considering that volcano insurance.
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But it can’t be a little one like say Mount St Helens that’s Jellystone level ... it would have to be major like the super-caldera Yellowstone ... :eek:
 
georgel said:
Nibiru

Ok, maybe not Nibiru, but, I have noticed an increase in near earth objects over the last few years. I think that's a high likelihood.
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Oh, that's just because the astronomy equipment technology for astrophotography has gotten so much better recently. "Goto" telescope mount technology, improved tracking and greatly improved photography - in terms of chip technologies and software to sort and stack pictures - has resulted in a huge number of amateur and semi-pro astronomers looking into the night sky. "We" are seeing a lot more out there.
 
dmarbell said:
Oh, that's just because the astronomy equipment technology for astrophotography has gotten so much better recently. "Goto" telescope mount technology, improved tracking and greatly improved photography - in terms of chip technologies and software to sort and stack pictures - has resulted in a huge number of amateur and semi-pro astronomers looking into the night sky. "We" are seeing a lot more out there.
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That only says to me we've been having near misses all along and the odds are running out. We're due. :D
 
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That only says to me we've been having near misses all along and the odds are running out. We're due. :D
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Maybe Chicxulub crater maker for September? (the one that killed the dinosaurs.)

https://space-facts.com/asteroids/

Facts about Asteroids
Asteroids are clues to the formation of the rocky planets of our solar system. The objects we see today are leftover from a time when the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. There are a LOT of these leftovers out there. Let’s learn some cool facts about them.

  • Asteroids aren’t the only things that hit Earth. Each day, more than 100 tons of material from asteroids and comets falls toward Earth. Most of it is destroyed by friction as it passes through our atmosphere. If something DOES hit the ground, it is known as a meteorite.
  • While asteroid impacts were more common in the past, they aren’t as frequent today.
  • An asteroid impact some 65 million years ago contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs. (It was one of several factors that affected all life on Earth at that time.)
  • Earth suffers an impact from an object the size of a football field about once every 2,000 years.
  • A car-sized meteoroid (a piece of asteroid) falls into Earth’s atmosphere about once a year. The result is a beautiful fireball, but the meteoroid usually burns up before reaching the ground.
  • Asteroids are rich in precious metals and other metals, as well as water.
  • Some asteroids are actually blown-out comets. The ices are gone, and all that’s left is the rocky material.
  • Some asteroids have moons of their own!
  • Most asteroids orbit the Sun in the Asteroid Belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter.
  • Asteroids are also referred to as minor planets or planetoids.
 
dmarbell said:
Maybe Chicxulub crater maker for September? (the one that killed the dinosaurs.)

https://space-facts.com/asteroids/

Facts about Asteroids
Asteroids are clues to the formation of the rocky planets of our solar system. The objects we see today are leftover from a time when the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. There are a LOT of these leftovers out there. Let’s learn some cool facts about them.

  • Asteroids aren’t the only things that hit Earth. Each day, more than 100 tons of material from asteroids and comets falls toward Earth. Most of it is destroyed by friction as it passes through our atmosphere. If something DOES hit the ground, it is known as a meteorite.
  • While asteroid impacts were more common in the past, they aren’t as frequent today.
  • An asteroid impact some 65 million years ago contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs. (It was one of several factors that affected all life on Earth at that time.)
  • Earth suffers an impact from an object the size of a football field about once every 2,000 years.
  • A car-sized meteoroid (a piece of asteroid) falls into Earth’s atmosphere about once a year. The result is a beautiful fireball, but the meteoroid usually burns up before reaching the ground.
  • Asteroids are rich in precious metals and other metals, as well as water.
  • Some asteroids are actually blown-out comets. The ices are gone, and all that’s left is the rocky material.
  • Some asteroids have moons of their own!
  • Most asteroids orbit the Sun in the Asteroid Belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter.
  • Asteroids are also referred to as minor planets or planetoids.
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Yep, cool stuff. I used to monitor Space Weather's Near Earth Object alerts. Every time something came by, I thought to myself, Well there's the object, but what's it pulling along behind it we don't see and can that get caught up in earth's gravity? It doesn't have to be a gigantic asteroid that demolishes the earth. A significant one could throw up enough debris to create a "nuclear winter" effect, blocking sunlight long enough to kill off vegetation. Which I believe is the theory behind the dinosaur extinction.

I remember hearing the idea that comet/asteroid "dust" may be sprinkling earth's atmosphere with all sorts of stuff.
 
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TripleO7 said:
NO! I live very close to McGuire!
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Just McGuire? Don’t forget Catawba, Oconee, Summer and Robinson in SC plus Harris and Brunswick in NC. Then add in the nuclear research facilities ... Oak Ridge in eastern TN and Savannah River in southern SC. We are all surrounded.
 
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Saw that our beloved governor was in Sparta today touring the damage. So maybe now he'll will have something else to talk about besides Covid19.
 
Miss Lily....Sparta HAD locusts this year, already.
Brood IX (NW NC, SW VA, and WVa).
 
NCFubar said:
Just McGuire? Don’t forget Catawba, Oconee, Summer and Robinson in SC plus Harris and Brunswick in NC. Then add in the nuclear research facilities ... Oak Ridge in eastern TN and Savannah River in southern SC. We are all surrounded.
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Surround??? Pishaw... on a good day I can spit and hit Harris plant. [emoji2957]

Back in junior high school I was on a debate team and we had argue for/ against Sharon Harris. Now I live there


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