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citysoul wrote:^Like with most science, more than one possible conclusion can usually be reached. I really have NO intention of arguing the earthquake/moon issue. It's like debating politics; no one is really going to sway the opinion of others by arguing their views.

Your conclusion in regards to the earthquake topic is not necessarily the "right" one. NOR IS MINE. But, like anyone else, I am entitled to my own views and should be free to express my own conclusions!

Mill204 wrote:

Urban Elitist wrote:Now I'll discuss St. Louis's preparedness for earthquaqes. We're not prepared. If the big one hits we are screwed.

If you survive the big one, go west and into the Ozarks; do not follow any major rivers. Somewhere I think I've heard that MoDOT assumes, when the big one hits, that all major river crossings will be lost. As such the only way out of St. Louis County and City will be via Manchester.



Million plus people on four lanes? I hope you have a bike and a set of hiking boots.

matguy70 wrote:Another one today - 05/05/08 But fom a fault near Valley Park!



2.7 temblor felt near St. Louis

BY THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Monday, May 5, 2008 12:09 PM CDT

The U.S. Geological Survey said a 2.7 magnitude quake rumbled this morning. But this time, its epicenter was near Valley Park, Mo.



The quake came at 6:25 a.m., centered two miles southeast of Valley Park, according to Jessica Sigala, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center based in Colorado. Its epicenter was somewhere between Valley Park and the Sappington area.



Sigala said this morning's quake was not connected to the 5.2 magnitude quake that struck at 4:37 a.m. on April 18 in the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone, in central Illinois some 130 miles east of St. Louis.



Timothy M. Kusky, director of the Center for Environmental Sciences at St. Louis University, said today's quake in St. Louis came from "some small faults outside the Wabash and New Madrid zones. They're active every once in awhile." Kusky said he's still studying the readouts from this morning's quake to pinpoint the exact epicenter. But he thinks it was along what's called the Eureka-House Springs fault.



Kusky said the fault had quakes in 1978 and 1998, both of magnitudes between 2 and 3.





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Magnatron wrote:Was there another Earthquake or aftershock? The cats were freaking out again EXACTLY like the night before the 5.2 AND all of the drawers on my dining room cabinet were open. Like clockwork, the only times those 2 events ever took place (cats and drawers) was during the 5.2 and all of its aftershocks. But I didn't feel anything today. So either I have a ghost or there was another earthquake.