Posted 12/30/2008 05:48:00 PM by Douglas

Always a bad sign.

Yellowstone National Park was jostled by a host of small earthquakes for a third straight day Monday, and scientists watched closely to see whether the more than 250 tremors were a sign of something bigger to come. Swarms of small earthquakes happen frequently in Yellowstone, but it's very unusual for so many earthquakes to happen over several days, said Robert Smith, a professor of geophysics at the University of Utah.

Wow. Time to repent?

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Posted 11/22/2008 06:16:00 PM by Douglas

News flash: a catastrophic earthquake would be catastrophic. Film at 11.

People in a vast seismic zone in the southern and midwestern United States would face catastrophic damage if a major earthquake struck there and should ensure that builders keep that risk in mind, a government report said on Thursday.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency said if earthquakes strike in what geologists define as the New Madrid Seismic Zone, they would cause "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States."

FEMA predicted a large earthquake would cause "widespread and catastrophic physical damage" across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee -- home to some 44 million people.

Yep, and if my aunt had a dong, she'd be my uncle. I guess the midwest is tired of the Gulf Coast stealing their thunder and collection of FEMA money. Yes, we all know the biggest earthquake was in Missouri. But Missouri loves company, and California actually gives people a reason to live there. Don't forget about the subterranean earthquakes in Miami.

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Posted 10/15/2008 05:15:00 PM by Douglas

Earthquake in Miami? No, it's not where you think. Only a tree was damaged.

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake hit the Miami area Monday night, but there were no reports Tuesday of significant damage.

The epicenter of the 10:07 p.m. jolt was about six miles northwest of Miami, or 75 miles east-northeast of Amarillo, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.

"One resident told us he saw an uprooted tree ... and one lady called and said it shook the foundation of her house," said Sandy Carr, a dispatcher for the Roberts County Sheriff's Office. "You definitely could feel it.

That's my-am-MA, Texas, to the uninitiated.

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Posted 4/07/2008 11:57:00 AM by Douglas

A religious compound gets raided a few days before Texas is hit with an earthquake?

A minor earthquake occurred about 95 miles south-southwest of Austin early this morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center.

The quake was detected at 4:51 a.m. and registered 3.7 on the 10-point Richter Scale, used to measure the energy of earthquakes.

This can't be a good sign.

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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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