Magnitude 3.6 - HITS SOUTH CAROLINA, page 1

Magnitude 3.6 - HITS SOUTH CAROLINA

earthquake.usgs.gov

Magnitude 3.6
Date-Time Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 12:42:15 UTC
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 07:42:15 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 32.970°N, 79.997°W
Depth 5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program
Region SOUTH CAROLINA
Distances 4 km (2 miles) SE (134°) from Goose Creek, SC
6 km (4 miles) N (359°) from Hanahan, SC
10 km (6 miles) N (11°) from North Charleston, SC
146 km (90 miles) NE (45°) from Savannah, GA
418 km (260 miles) E (101°) from Atlanta, GA

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 23.1 km (14.4 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 14, Nph= 14, Dmin=22.7 km, Rmss=1.11 sec, Gp=234°,
M-type="Nuttli" surface wave magnitude (MLg), Version=6
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)


Event ID us2008arar

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Was it not reported that there was weird animal activity in SC last week and an earthquake prediction. Well here it is.

The bot program seems to be working fine if you consider this to be the one it talked about, maybe its just the precursor to more quakes in that area.

3.6 in magnitute isnt much in CA, but if that were to hit IL where I live,it would most likely knock entire towns down since most of IL is sitting atop solid bedrock.

Anyone think there is more to come?

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reply to post by stinkhorn

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Yep more to come...

reply to post by stinkhorn

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3.6 is hardly the earth shattering quake that the bot was eluding to. I could be wrong though because I admittedly don't spend much time reading about what the bot is "predicting".

Unless your town is made of toothpicks and cardboard, a 3.4 would cause hardly any damage.

Originally posted by stinkhorn



3.6 in magnitute isnt much in CA, but if that were to hit IL where I live,it would most likely knock entire towns down since most of IL is sitting atop solid bedrock.

Anyone think there is more to come?

earthquake.usgs.gov
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No that is a false understanding of building engineering and the effects of earthquakes. Solid bedrock is a GOOD thing to anchor a building on. Fill and sand are bad things to build upon and in those places foundations are made to connect to the underlying bedrock.

OF COURSE there is more to come. The Earth keeps changing for millions X 100s of years.

reply to post by spitefulgod

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No, i read some people reported in SC last week their pets were acting strangely, just wondering if this is just the start of a chain of quakes yet to come.

reply to post by stinkhorn

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3.6 in magnitute isnt much in CA, but if that were to hit IL where I live,it would most likely knock entire towns down since most of IL is sitting atop solid bedrock.

Wow, do you have a bad memory. Illinois just suffered a magnitude 5.2 Earthquake in April of this year. I felt it up in Northern Indiana. It shook people out of bed up here. According to some reports, the USGS even had reports from people in Florida almost 1,000 miles away who felt it.

Insofar as damage, I think a few bricks fell off a building in Kentucky, and someone's porch fell off in Illinois. That's it really. The aftershocks of that quake were 10x more powerful than the quake the OP mentions (at around 4.4 magnitude).

[edit on 16-12-2008 by Lasheic]

Originally posted by stinkhorn


Was it not reported that there was weird animal activity in SC last week and an earthquake prediction. Well here it is.

The bot program seems to be working fine if you consider this to be the one it talked about, maybe its just the precursor to more quakes in that area.

3.6 in magnitute isnt much in CA, but if that were to hit IL where I live,it would most likely knock entire towns down since most of IL is sitting atop solid bedrock.

Anyone think there is more to come?

earthquake.usgs.gov
(visit the link for the full news article)

This has to be one of the worse posts/threads in some time.

"Was it not reported that there was weird animal activity in SC last week and an earthquake prediction. Well here it is."

- No.. it wasn't reported. Though there was an EQ prediction, it had nothing to o with a tiny-not-felt quake in sc.

"The bot program seems to be working fine if you consider this to be the one it talked about, maybe its just the precursor to more quakes in that area."

- why the hell would you consider THIS the one webbot talked about? have you even read a full report from webbot? probably not..
why would you consider a 3.something a world shaking change?
just so dumb.

speaking of dumb:
"3.6 in magnitude isn't much in CA, but if that were to hit IL where I live,it would most likely knock entire towns down since most of IL is sitting atop solid bedrock."

OMG.. NO..
the "midwest" gets small quakes all the time.. and No... a 3.6 won't "knock your town down"... last time I checked (and as someone pointed out) Bedrock good - silt/sand/fill bad


to the op: please, do some basic grade school research before you start horribly wrong threads.

just garbage


and:

of course there is more to come.. if not, that means we are all freaking dead... as well as the planet.

i'm pretty sure it was the well known 'Summerville Fault',
and i'm faily certain that is the one, solitary, earthquake fault line in SC.


the immediate area might have felt something...
pretty much like the vibration resulting from driving pilings in the sand
for a building foundation support...

en.wikipedia.com...

reply to post by St Udio

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That's right, I'm assuming anyway. There are about 3-5 earthquakes of this size yearly felt in South Carolina according to USGS and if there is an earthquake in the state nine times out of ten it's felt in Summerville.

But don't think SC is immune to large earthquakes in the future. In 1886 an earthquake was felt from Canada to Cuba that registered at 7.3 but from what I've read they don't expect another large earthquake in a few hundred years, (how convenient if you are paid to mitigate).

Originally posted by stinkhorn


Was it not reported that there was weird animal activity in SC last week and an earthquake prediction. Well here it is.

The bot program seems to be working fine if you consider this to be the one it talked about, maybe its just the precursor to more quakes in that area.

3.6 in magnitute isnt much in CA, but if that were to hit IL where I live,it would most likely knock entire towns down since most of IL is sitting atop solid bedrock.

Anyone think there is more to come?

earthquake.usgs.gov
(visit the link for the full news article)

Having a home anchored into bedrock is better than anything else. The bedrock actually rides the waves of the quake. My entire neighborhood sits atop a huge bedrock depsoit here in northern california and when we had the napa quake that caused damage all over our town ,we where perfectly fine not even one busted water pipe.
Think of it this way the land is the sea and the bedrock is a ship riding the waves coming in....silly but best way to picture it. One of the main myths about earthquakes is that they just "shake" things up; they actually move out from the centeral plate slide in a "wave". Here where I live you can watch the ones above 3.0 wave along the freeway by our house. My hub was being a smart butt once and raced along the freeway to stay on top of one;;; till i smacked him that is

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