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We received a brief earthquake five years ago. Shortly afterwards, we ended up with Hurrican Irene. That was a time of interesting natural events.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 4, 2016 at 6:25 AM
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Who knows? (to both questions)
posted by
TAPS.
on September 3, 2016 at 8:54 PM
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TAPS
I had to do a little digging (pun fully intended, LOL) to find out you've got all those fault lines there! We're lucky - we're sitting practically on the Canadian Shield (once upon a time mountains 30,000 ft high), and that doesn't move much...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 3, 2016 at 8:38 PM
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I hope the fracking stops. Earthquakes are awful. No need to encourage Mother Nature to bolt!
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on September 3, 2016 at 7:31 PM
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Unbelievable...
They know the damage they are doing, and they keep right on doing it.
posted by
Ciel
on September 3, 2016 at 4:52 PM
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Is this earthquake the direct result of fracking...terrible word.... and if so why don't they just stop! Australia has been fracking for years, natural gas, but Australia has a great underground inland sea of brackish water and with the fracking, because thery use this water, son tells me it is rising and will ruin all the agriculture. I am just about sick of the World.
posted by
Kabu
on September 3, 2016 at 11:09 AM
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We had quite a few earthquakes when I lived in western Washington,
and we were always conscious that "the big one" could take out half of the Pacific Coast cities and shoreline. Thought when I came to the Midwest this was far from any fault line and then I studied about the New Madrid fault and how a long ago quake changed the course of the Mississippi River... I hope nobody was hurt in this one.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 3, 2016 at 10:53 AM
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Of course I had to read your history finish and was surprised to find how many commented on the blog. I just thought in those early days we would never buy anything from Woolworths the cut price store Dad said they were ruining small businesses .
I don't think anyone realizes how poor folk really were, my Uncle came in from a village to try to claim unemployment benefit. 'How did you get here?' the old misery asked. '
'On my old motorcycle,' was the reply.'Well sell that before you try to claim.' was the answer. Today a man told my sister,' If you are on disabled benefits, you can get anything you want.'
posted by
C_C_T
on September 3, 2016 at 10:39 AM
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