Posted
3/19/2005 06:41:00 PM
by Douglas
Earthquake!!! This time, just outside of
Amarillo. People in parts of Amarillo picked up some unusual vibrations Thursday when a small earthquake struck north of town.
The magnitude 2.4 temblor occurred at 1:19 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.
The epicenter was about 13 miles north of downtown Amarillo. No damage was reported.
No damage, yet a few cows were a bit disoriented.
Experts have theorized that many local earthquakes may be linked to fault lines in the Amarillo Mountains, which are underground, buried roughly 100 million years ago by sediment.
Those are two words I never thought I'd see in the same sentence: "Amarillo" and "Mountains." Imagine that. An area of the globe that's so flat you can see the back of your head, yet there are underground buried 'mountains' there.
And what the hell is a mountain buried by sediment? Isn't that just about the same thing as a hole filled with air?
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