Earthquake

**Dusty** · 2nd May 15, 08:03 PM

Hi guys! Was out with friends when there was a big bang and the house shook about 7:39 pm with a 3.2 earthquake followed 30 minutes later with a 3.0 quake. This just doesn't happen in Mississippi USA! We do live on the Saint Madrid fault line. Back in 1811 there was a huge earthquake in which the Mississippi river ran backwards. No damage to report to me or the area. We are all in shock!

**Tarheel** · 2nd May 15, 08:41 PM

Not even a tremor in Oxford. But am checking the internet after I post for news. Hope all is well and we are here (as we were when Hurricane Katrina hit the coast) to receive refugees. We did get a sinkhole that took out a huge section of Highway 6 on Thursday, but that was poor hydraulic engineering planning.

**Bluescelt** · 3rd May 15, 05:08 AM

Hopefully that was an isolated incident.

**Jim Simmons** · 3rd May 15, 08:48 AM

I hope that there were no injuries, and that you will have no more. Over the last years, I have experienced a few here in the Highlands of Guatemala. They can be quite disconcerting, can they not? The ground is NOT supposed to move!!

**Tarheel** · 3rd May 15, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by Jim Simmons

The ground is NOT supposed to move!!

I will point out that when the ground moves here in Mississippi, LOVE is usually the culprit, seldom by earthquake. I believe Dusty will agree.

**The Q** · 3rd May 15, 12:42 PM

i find the earth moves a lot after 24 hours sailing in a small boat.

**Elizabeth** · 3rd May 15, 01:15 PM

We don't even notice anything that small!

Seriously I hope things settle down. There is the thought process that small quakes relieve pressure preventing a bigger quake.

Of course it could be a prequake to a bigger one as well. <<< Sorry I couldn't help myself!

**GrainReaper** · 3rd May 15, 01:50 PM

We had a 2.9 quake here about a month ago, I thought it shook the house about he same as a clap of thunder and nowhere near like the terrifying quake I felt years ago in California, nonetheless people here were just about peeing their pants talking about "surviving" the quake of 2015. My neighbor was nervously asking me if I felt it and was I scared, I told him I thought somebody farted in the bathtub and rattled the pipes in the house LOL.

**Dusty** · 3rd May 15, 04:06 PM

No damage that I know of. I know this is small by others standards but there has never been a recorded earthquake in Madison County recorded tracking history. I thought a car had run into the house so went out to investigate and saw the neighbors were out trying to find out what was going on. Yes LOVE can move mountains!