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Moonliner
02-21-2008, 07:45 AM
Anyone feel that one?

Location with respect to nearby cities:
17 km (11 miles) ESE (103 degrees) of Wells, NV
32 km (20 miles) NNW (343 degrees) of Spruce, NV
39 km (24 miles) S (183 degrees) of Wilkins, NV
70 km (43 miles) WNW (303 degrees) of West Wendover, NV
244 km (152 miles) W (279 degrees) of Salt Lake City, UT
scaeagles
02-21-2008, 07:48 AM
Don't think it was AZ.....AZ isn't 152 miles west of Salt Lake City. unless that's the typo you're referring to rather than "earhtquake".
Alex
02-21-2008, 07:57 AM
Yeah, northeastern Nevada near the Utah border. Here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=wells,+nv&ie=UTF8&ll=41.302571,-113.554687&spn=5.751639,14.677734&z=7&iwloc=addr)

My theory: key debris from the spy satellite landed there and the government exploded a nuclear bomb to ensure nobody would get their hands on it.
Moonliner
02-21-2008, 07:57 AM
Don't think it was AZ.....AZ isn't 152 miles west of Salt Lake City.

My Bad. I meant Norway (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=383&sid=1349118). I always get those two confused.
scaeagles
02-21-2008, 08:14 AM
My theory: key debris from the spy satellite landed there and the government exploded a nuclear bomb to ensure nobody would get their hands on it.

Hmmm....excellent thought. Either that or the Aliens in Area 51 escaped and we had to nuke them.
Alex
02-21-2008, 08:20 AM
Could be. And they've already started on a remake of The Andromeda Strain (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424600/) so that when people speak up they can be disregarded as crackpots unable to distinguish fiction from reality.
Moonliner
02-21-2008, 08:24 AM
Could be. And they've already started on a remake of The Andromeda Strain (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424600/) so that when people speak up they can be disregarded as crackpots unable to distinguish fiction from reality.

I love that movie. I can't wait to see how they bastardise another of my childhood memories. Wait a second. On second thought, Yes I can.
Kevy Baby
02-21-2008, 08:30 AM
I understand the initial confusion: I am constantly mixing up Arizona and Norway
blueerica
02-21-2008, 09:19 AM
You know - that is so weird. I woke up thinking about earthquakes and felt something. I figured it was something else, but couldn't shake the feeling. No pun intended.

Thank you - I wouldn't have looked that one up!
blueerica
02-21-2008, 09:20 AM
And chances are, I was the only one close enough to feel it...
BarTopDancer
02-21-2008, 09:21 AM
Traci?

Geeze, E, you move you UT and your area is getting unheard of snow and now feeling earthquakes. I think it's a sign :p
blueerica
02-21-2008, 09:22 AM
Way too far north for those guys... We do have someone here from Idaho, though, right? Any Oregonians feel it?

ETA: It's like I moved back to Cali... Smog... Now earthquakes. What did I do???
blueerica
02-21-2008, 09:25 AM
Seriously, on my local station's website, they say it was felt in some areas of SoCal. I'm assuming Inland Empire.

Wow, huge.

Store here. (http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2703484)
Alex
02-21-2008, 09:47 AM
From that story, what is a "home earthquake alarm"? I'd say that if you need a machine to tell you the earth is shaking that it isn't a level of shaking you really need be concerned about.
blueerica
02-21-2008, 10:01 AM
Haha, I noticed that! I think people have too much money to blow on random crap out here. Cost of living is relatively low, and while on an average people make less money out here, there are a lot of people that make a TON of money out here. I agree, and beyond that, until I just looked it up, I didn't really consider Utah as being a place that gets earthquakes. Apparently, they do, but in my Californian experience, these are rather tiny, and there's not enough in the way of damage that can be done, unless it landed smack dab in SLC.

Anyhow, I'm relating it to "bought a home, had too much money and spent it on random alarms and buzzers because then we feel somehow safer, even if it's entirely unnecessary."
Alex
02-21-2008, 10:10 AM
Thinking about it, it occurs to me that such might be useful if you're somehow at high risk of avalanche since otherwise imperceptible tremblers could trigger one and it might be a good idea to look up the hill. But I'm guessing not many houses are built at such high risk locations.
Kevy Baby
02-21-2008, 10:22 AM
Thinking about it, it occurs to me that such might be useful if you're somehow at high risk of avalanche since otherwise imperceptible tremblers could trigger one and it might be a good idea to look up the hill.That is a problem they fight all the time in Kansas.
cirquelover
02-21-2008, 11:08 AM
I didn't feel it here in the middle of Oregon but I should call Gary and see if he felt it, as he is down in Southern Oregon.

I didn't realize that Utah had earthquakes either.
Kevy Baby
02-21-2008, 11:49 AM
I am no geologist, but wouldn't any place with mountains have the capacity for earthquakes?

And when you get right down to it, wouldn't ANY place in the world have the capacity for earthquakes?
blueerica
02-21-2008, 12:21 PM
Yes and no, I think. I'm no expert on seismology, but it seems to be more dependent upon it being an active faultline. Anywhere could have an earthquake, but the likelihood of one happening is what's at qquestion. The mountains were created bajillionties of years ago, and have probably shifted along the plates as a part of it - that's part of a guess on my part. While there are small earthquakes here and there from what I can tell, most are really minuscule compared to what we are used to in SoCal.
Moonliner
02-21-2008, 12:43 PM
Yes and no, I think. I'm no expert on seismology, but it seems to be more dependent upon it being an active faultline. Anywhere could have an earthquake, but the likelihood of one happening is what's at qquestion. The mountains were created bajillionties of years ago, and have probably shifted along the plates as a part of it - that's part of a guess on my part. While there are small earthquakes here and there from what I can tell, most are really minuscule compared to what we are used to in SoCal.

True on average but it can happen. The strongest earthquake in mainland US history happend in New Madrid, Missouri (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/events/1811-1812.php#december_16)far from the west coast.
blueerica
02-21-2008, 01:08 PM
That's why I said anywhere could have an earthquake. I remember one happening just a few years ago in the Midwest somewhere. It's more rare in these areas, thus, "Earthquakes don't happen here" and "Erica brought on Mutha Naytchuh to Utah."
SacTown Chronic
02-21-2008, 01:21 PM
No pun intended.Mission Accomplished!
Bornieo: Fully Loaded
02-21-2008, 01:30 PM
An earthquake in Nevada? Wow that must've been LOUD! All that loose change moving around....
Kevy Baby
02-21-2008, 01:39 PM
My armchair observation: Don't the big ones tend to occur on faults previously unknown or faults thought to be dormant? I don't remember any significant earthquakes on the San Andreas, which is popularly thought to be the one to worry about.

Again, this is WAS* on my part.













*WAS = Wild Ass Speculation
Pirate Bill
02-21-2008, 02:57 PM
My armchair observation: Don't the big ones tend to occur on faults previously unknown or faults thought to be dormant?

Generally speaking, if a fault doesn't make regular little movements (resulting in smaller quakes) then the pressure just builds up in an eventual large movement (aka "a big one").

(Are we talking about plate tectonics or bowels?)

Also, areas with frequent earthquakes have building codes appropriate for such events. If California gets hit by a 5.0 there's very little damage. Same quake in a region that sees a 5.0 once every 3000 years will do much more significant damage. So "the big ones" are a matter of relativity.

I'm no expert so this could be all WAS on my part too.
JWBear
02-21-2008, 03:11 PM
Wikipedia has a pretty god article on earthquakes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake).

Charleston SC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_earthquake) has also had a major quake!
BarTopDancer
02-21-2008, 03:36 PM
Don't you guys watch TV?? A 10.0 quake will bring down the Seattle Space needle, swallow trains and collapse everything in Vegas! And then there will be a tusanmi so CA won't even have a chance to become an island!
Kevy Baby
02-21-2008, 04:06 PM
Don't you guys watch TV?? A 10.0 quake will bring down the Seattle Space needle, swallow trains and collapse everything in Vegas! And then there will be a tsuanmi so CA won't even have a chance to become an island!I have always maintained that when the big one DOES hit here in California, that everything EAST of the San Andreas fault will fall into the ATLANTIC Ocean. Then we will finally have a respite from those whiny Bitter East Coasters.
Moonliner
02-21-2008, 04:09 PM
I have always maintained that when the big one DOES hit here in California, that everything EAST of the San Andreas fault will fall into the ATLANTIC Ocean. Then we will finally have a respite from those whiny Bitter East Coasters.

And the resulting tsunami will wipe your new island clean of all life.

So I'll see you in Hell!
JWBear
02-21-2008, 05:07 PM
And the resulting tsunami will wipe your new island clean of all life.

So I'll see you in Hell!

Nahhh... The tsunami will radiate away from California. Europe will be toast, though.
blueerica
02-21-2008, 09:09 PM
Needless to say, there's a ton of coverage here on the quake. These poor people had no clue what was going on. :( The town of Wells, NV is in shambles, and worse, since their historic buildings were grandfathered in, they were pretty much destroyed. The town is in shambles.

People seem to be safe, I don't think there are any casualties.