Earthquake in Georgia?
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lol... 2.5... there is a major fault zone in eastern S.C. quakes are not unknown there..
justsomeguy!
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2.5……that’s funny.
valis
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Not in Georgia, but we had a little 4.4 quake near my Sonoma County Calif. place this evening. It was in the middle of a nice windstorm, and the house was already shaking a bit, but this was a good solid jolt, with a small aftershock about a minute later. No damage.
The interesting thing was that the cellphone sent out an alert just a few seconds after the first shock, and the first internet report was within a minute, created by the "ShakeAlert" system, using seismic sensor data and the accelerometers built into Android phones to automatically detect quakes and broadcast alarms. Pretty amazing!
https://www.bworldonline.com/techno...le-launches-android-earthquake-alerts-system/
You just type "earthquake near me" into Google and the preliminary quake data pops up almost instantly. I believe this is just a U.S. west coast thing.
The interesting thing was that the cellphone sent out an alert just a few seconds after the first shock, and the first internet report was within a minute, created by the "ShakeAlert" system, using seismic sensor data and the accelerometers built into Android phones to automatically detect quakes and broadcast alarms. Pretty amazing!
https://www.bworldonline.com/techno...le-launches-android-earthquake-alerts-system/
You just type "earthquake near me" into Google and the preliminary quake data pops up almost instantly. I believe this is just a U.S. west coast thing.
mikewof
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I just tried this, kinda neat ... nothing near me, then I tried "earthquake georgia" and the automatic thing you described popped up that I had seen earlier, and assumed it was put there by a news organization. But it was put there by a robot? It would be good if these Android phones could use that system with some kind of particulate sensor on a chip inside the phone, create a phone-gathered map of air pollution?
mikewof
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Is it normal to have several small quakes like that within a short time?
When I was a kid we had a bunch of smallish earthquakes in Denver, they came with a regularity that seemed abnormal, finally the nearby Arsenal admitted that they were injecting some kind of toxic waste into a deep well injection site, and it apparently lubricated the plates enough to lead to allow for the slippage. They stopped injecting, then the tremors stopped.
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I have a friend there, but he didn't even feel something. 2.5 usually are not felt
00seven
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7.6 in PNG yesterday.
tybee
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it happens but not often.
ShortForBob
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5.9 in melbourne last year. Now that IS unusual. we have little ripples under 3, about 400 a year
we thought it was heating system expanding the wooden ceiling. and then evacuated.
side wall of a shop collapsed just down the road.
That was a bit of a freak, dodgy building. no other damage really.
we thought it was heating system expanding the wooden ceiling. and then evacuated.
side wall of a shop collapsed just down the road.
That was a bit of a freak, dodgy building. no other damage really.
MisterMoon
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They happen here (in GA) from time to time, but are seldom felt by anyone. I'm more likely to feel the blasts from the granite quarry a couple every Wednesday at 100 pm from a couple miles away than a 2.4 quake. There was one in the 3s a couple of years ago that some people claim to have felt but I slept through it. I would have missed this one since I was in St. Louis until about noon today.
