Cool. A mild earthquake in NE Ohio!!
7So I was up making brownies for the family gathering this weekend and the kitchen started to vibrate, pans sitting out and the cupboard doors started to rattle. Went looking for what the problem was thinking maybe the fridge had an issue until I realized the floor was vibrating along with all the other things rattling and a low weird rumbling type noise. Mild earthquake. Not a common event in NE Ohio. Apparently one last night no one felt (epicenter in Lake Erie). Cool then they are very mild. Not so cool when they do damage like in CA but then again this one was in the richter II vicinity so .
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PS And sadly this was so considered so trivial that according to the Ohio geologic survey person if it is below 2.7 (which this was) then it barely counts for anything. I guess our local little quake is considered beyond meh, despite our awe that the earth does this.
I didn’t feel anything. There was one in 1986 or so that I did feel.
/image was that an earthquake
USGS has a list, and maps, and stuff. You can set the map intensity level etc.
@OldCatLady Doesn’t even show up on that!! Pffff. I called someone at the Ohio geologic survey to ask about it - eg was this really an earthquake or something else weird. She said barely a 2, surprised we felt anything; there had been one the night before about 10 miles north (out in Lake Erie) of a city about 17 miles from us that no one felt that they were aware of. I can’t find that one either for yesterday other than a side note on one site. I guess though that it is good this was incredibly mild.
@kidsandliz @oldcatlady Probably all that fracking in Youngstown Ohio again! The frackers have the local USGS under a firm grip.
/giphy firm-grip
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ohio-links-fracking-to-earthquakes-announces-tougher-rules/ We have a fault line in western NY state called Clarenden-Linden Fault, and occasionally we get one…
@gfreek Excellent article, thanks for posting.
@gfreek There goes my whole morning, drinking coffee and learning stuff (I mean, I got up super late, but still…).
@gfreek
Would it be considered wrong of me to be glad that the earthquakes in NY happen more there than by the Rampo Fault?
I mean, I know @baqui63 is glad.
Unless his feelings changed since 2016.
Does the New Madrid fault line go up into Ohio?
@lseeber Google says it doesn’t. For places that are geologically perilous, https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/ has lots of data and resources. There are a lot of natural seismic features in the country, and fracking is causing some surprising results. I mean, who knew? The oil companies are shocked, shocked every time.
@lseeber I have read though that if the lower midwest (I forget where, not in OH) gets another big one like the one that moved part of the Mississippi River that it will be felt in OH enough that chimneys could crack/fall down.
@Kidsandliz @lseeber That was the New Madrid quake series of 1811-1812. The Mississippi apparently ran backwards for hours, new land was created, existing land went away. Fun times for all. BTW, the viral video of the River going down into a crack in the earth is on Snopes.
@OldCatLady Maybe. But quakes were going on long before fracking started. There’s always a trade off it seems.
@Kidsandliz I recall my husband telling me something about that. He was born in OH. As was my ex… lol.