stoney <stoney@the.net> writes:

On 19 Jun 2006 05:17:24 -0500, The Chief Instigator <patrick@io.com>
wrote in alt.atheism

Miriam Cohen <mimiNOSPAMgal@cox.net> writes:

The Chief Instigator wrote:

Miriam Cohen <mimiNOSPAMgal@cox.net> writes:

stoney wrote:

[...]

Where they play 'Twister'.....instead of 'rock me like a hurricane.'

It's a funny thing; people come here from the Midwest or East Coast and
say the silliest things. "I don't know how you can live out here with the
constant threat of earthquakes". I'll take my chances on a "threat" of an
earthquake over the guaranteed hurricanes along the Eastern Seaboard and
the Gulf Coast or the guaranteed tornadoes that hit the Midwest and the
Mississippi river flooding somewhere *EVERY* year. Another funny thing
the largest ever recorded earthquake in the US was in Asheville, NC there
was a little shaker last week in one of the Carolinas (I forget North or
South) and when the New Madrid fault finally lets go it's going to
flatten the entire Midwest. Where I live is relatively safe from
earthquakes; the big fault that runs through LA is about 50 miles west of
here in the Pacific, the other big one runs through downtown El Centro
about 150 miles east of here and because there are frequent tremors in
California stress gets let off making even our big quakes less intense
than those places whose faults are building and building pressure. You
can have hurricanes and tornadoes I'll keep earthquakes and good weather
90% of the year. Snow? what's that? :)

One question: when was this quake in western North Carolina? The
largest one I've managed to find a record of in that part of the
Appalachians was a bit over 5, and that in the early 20th Century. There
are occasional 3.5s in east Tennessee - one up north of Morristown, a
couple of summers ago - but USGS doesn't seem to have any estimations of
a 8+ shaker in western NC any time during recorded history. (There was
one off Charlestown, in the other Carolina, in the 19th Century, but
that's a bit away from Asheville, in my experience. :-)

"The strongest earthquake was that of August 31, 1886. Centered in
Charleston, SC, the earthquake shook the mountains around Hendersonville
and Asheville for more than a minute."

http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/displan/section_8.html

In other words, the 7.3 near Charleston...which would have been felt ~260
miles to the northwest in Asheville, but not with the strength as it'd have
been felt in Charleston. (The three major shocks on the New Madrid in 1811
and 1812 were all stronger than that, from the estimates of destruction.)
One thing is certain...we're still learning how this crustal plate has been
cobbled together over the last quarter of a billion years.

Yeah, and the sub contractor should have been fired for incompetance....

You'll have to get Earl to take that up with the alleged contractor. ;-)

"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> writes:

Previously, on alt.atheism, The Chief Instigator in episode
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Miriam Cohen <mimiNOSPAMgal@cox.net> writes:

The Chief Instigator wrote:

Miriam Cohen <mimiNOSPAMgal@cox.net> writes:

stoney wrote:

[...]

Where they play 'Twister'.....instead of 'rock me like a hurricane.'

It's a funny thing; people come here from the Midwest or East Coast
and say the silliest things. "I don't know how you can live out here
with the constant threat of earthquakes". I'll take my chances on a
"threat" of an earthquake over the guaranteed hurricanes along the
Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf Coast or the guaranteed tornadoes that
hit the Midwest and the Mississippi river flooding somewhere *EVERY*
year. Another funny thing the largest ever recorded earthquake in the
US was in Asheville, NC there was a little shaker last week in one of
the Carolinas (I forget North or South) and when the New Madrid fault
finally lets go it's going to flatten the entire Midwest. Where I
live is relatively safe from earthquakes; the big fault that runs
through LA is about 50 miles west of here in the Pacific, the other
big one runs through downtown El Centro about 150 miles east of here
and because there are frequent tremors in California stress gets let
off making even our big quakes less intense than those places whose
faults are building and building pressure. You can have hurricanes
and tornadoes I'll keep earthquakes and good weather 90% of the year.
Snow? what's that?
:)

One question: when was this quake in western North Carolina? The
largest one I've managed to find a record of in that part of the
Appalachians was a bit over 5, and that in the early 20th Century.
There are occasional 3.5s in east Tennessee - one up north of
Morristown, a couple of summers ago - but USGS doesn't seem to have
any estimations of a 8+ shaker in western NC any time during recorded
history. (There was one off Charlestown, in the other Carolina, in
the 19th Century, but that's a bit away from Asheville, in my
experience.
:-)

"The strongest earthquake was that of August 31, 1886. Centered in
Charleston, SC, the earthquake shook the mountains around
Hendersonville and Asheville for more than a minute."

http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/displan/section_8.html

In other words, the 7.3 near Charleston...which would have been felt
~260 miles to the northwest in Asheville, but not with the strength as
it'd have been felt in Charleston. (The three major shocks on the New
Madrid in 1811 and 1812 were all stronger than that, from the estimates
of destruction.) One thing is certain...we're still learning how this
crustal plate has been cobbled together over the last quarter of a
billion years.

You mean how this plate was "fine tuned" by an "intelligent designer."
Who, apparently, hates us all...

...and those such as Osprey or Johnny are just its sense of humor getting
out of hand, on occasion? ;-)