I’d like some fries with that shake, please
To everyone who’s ever either laughed or just never believed me or thought I was just too dumb to know better when I mentioned that New Orleans was in an earthquake zone, I’d like to just say this: lick my balls.
Magnitude 3.0 - LOUISIANA
2005 December 20 00:52:20 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for
Seismology, Denver
| Magnitude | 3.0 |
| Date-Time | Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 00:52:20 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Monday, December 19, 2005 at 6:52:20 PM = local time at epicenter |
| Location | 30.275°N, 90.703°W |
| Depth | 5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program |
| Region | LOUISIANA |
| Distances | 10 km (6 miles) ESE (110°) from French Settlement, LA 15 km (9 miles) ESE (118°) from Port Vincent, LA 17 km (10 miles) SW (232°) from Killian, LA 47 km (29 miles) ESE (116°) from Baton Rouge, LA 70 km (44 miles) WNW (299°) from New Orleans, LA |
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 29.8 km (18.5 miles); depth fixed by location program |
| Parameters | Nst= 10, Nph= 10, Dmin=412.1 km, Rmss=0.96 sec, Gp=234°, M-type=”Nuttli” surface wave magnitude (MLg), Version=6 |
Sadly, it didn’t happen on Sunday, when I could have blamed it on the expanding backsides of various visiting politicos.
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It is all going down. All the way down.
I saw some where that there is a fault line which runs
through the Gulf of Mexico toward Baha.
Laurie
Jesus, when do the fucking locusts come?
Oh, for Pete’s sake, New Orleans is not in an EQ zone, nor is LA an EQ zone (like western California or some such). Sediment loading (given that it is a river drainage basin) and water/hydrocarbon extraction lead to subsidence-related tremors that register on seismometers - that’t it - not EQs of any noticeable scale. A dump truck passing by an old shotgun in NO can cause similar tremors.
There is no such thing as a fault line, at least not one that spans the width of Mexico. There are such things as fault zones or bands, but again, not ones that run from the GoM to Baja.
We have bypassed the locusts - please read my post on the topic.
Someone please invite me to be a Metroblogger already - you have a female:male problem.
Try the U.S.G.S.
Laurie
Alright, give me a link or a paper on it.
No locusts. Frogs!
If the frogs came at least we could have froglegs.
Try earthquake.usgs.gov/recentqsus/
Yep, there there was a 3.0 quake registered in Louisiana out of Lafayette.
Not a joke.
Laurie