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5.1 Quake rattles Blue Ridge range near Sparta, NC
« on: August 10, 2020, 07:12:39 AM »
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/se60324281/executive

Almost 100k felt reports for this shallow quake which means since most people don't bother logging onto USGS even if 10% did means 900k did not, so no doubt more than a million folks had to have felt this.

https://earth.google.com/web/search/36.476%c2%b0N+81.093%c2%b0W/@36.476,-81.093,858.60689418a,3448.91801176d,35y,0h,0t,0r/data=CigiJgokCQvHjqhITTJAEQvHjqhITTLAGZ4OyxygjD7AIdLo4aqRJGDA

Dutch Sinse didn't finding any fracking wells here...just rural life...so a good old fashioned real mother nature rattle.

Looks like a serene area to me.

Y'all the area feel some wiggling?
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Re: 5.1 Quake rattles Blue Ridge range near Sparta, NC
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2020, 12:57:40 PM »
Surprise to me, felt nothing.
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Re: 5.1 Quake rattles Blue Ridge range near Sparta, NC
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2020, 01:26:57 PM »
It was like 7am local time or there about...y'all probably rousting hens for eggs, whipping up gravy...getting grits going...

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