Earthquake in Indiana

[Rick]

If money was not a consideration I would blow concrete on the sides.

Wouldn't that be a swimming pool?

[Sourdough]

Wouldn't that be a swimming pool?

Yep.......Moose pool.........................?

[Rick]

Now I have this picture of moose in deck chairs with shades on sipping margaritas. Hey, you could call it Hopeak's Hop Inn. Get it? I slay myself.

[Sourdough]

That is the camel cigarettes camel......

[hoosierarcher]

It woke me up, just long enough to register what it was. I lived in California for 4.5 years and had experienced a dozen small ones and one 6.5. Never had damage with those so I just wnet back to sleep when I say the amount of shake. I'm sure the sale of Earthquake insurance has gone up all over the Midwest.

[Ridge Wolf]

Now I have this picture of moose in deck chairs with shades on sipping margaritas. Hey, you could call it Hopeak's Hop Inn. Get it? I slay myself.

Bullwinkle!!! Long time no see!

[Ridge Wolf]

Ridge - here's my thought process, unusual as it may be. Thread started off about earthquakes. Some frivolity began to enter around post #9. Round about post#19 talk turned to volcanoes. Shortly after that Hopeak mentions a fear of wildfires and not being able to outrun them. You then made a post about being able to reach a lake that wasn't frozen over. OK here's the part where my mind wanders. Volcanoes - Wildfires - Wildfire starts because of lava flow from volcano - Hopeak runs looking for lake to jump into to escape fire - ***drats*** lake is frozen over - along comes pyroclastic flow traveling at 60 meters a second (or 216 kilometers per hour) - flow hits frozen lake - ice melts - Hopeak jumps in and is saved - life is good.

OK - that's how my mind sometimes works.......besides it was getting late.

Was late for me too... Just started a new job... frustration and not paying attention because of wanting to veg at home... you know, Sorry 'bout the 'fusion.. I got a trainer at work that thinks I don't know anything for my 57 years... and he knows everything although two years younger.. That's what I am putting up with for now. confusion, mass histeria.

[crashdive123]

No worries. Good luck with the new job.

[Ridge Wolf]

Ridge Wolf, I am creating a small farm in the middle of the Chugach National Forest, on 15.2 acres of private land. Because I am immersed in the (Wilds of Alaska) wilderness, if I do an 8 mile hike (4 out and 4 back) most days, then I am hardly ever more than 2 or 3 miles from home.

Bragg, I am going to build a pond this summer on the highest point of my land. How deep is your pond? I am thinking if I can get it deep enough I can stock it with fish.

K.. let me get my confused trainer straitened out at work.. then I'll be ok.. honest. Whew!! I just want to veg for the rest of this weekend.

[Ridge Wolf]

No worries. Good luck with the new job.

[Rick]

One of my great great X whatever uncles was one of the first 2 Baptist preachers in Illinois. When the New Madrid quake hit he and the only other Baptist preacher in the Indiana territory were recruited to baptize folks in the New Madrid area. They spent two weeks there and baptized over 100 every day. I guess when the going gets tough you just need to get right with the skipper.

[crashdive123]

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[Rick]

Well slap me silly and call me Susie. I never knew. I swear, I never knew.

Hey, honey. Come look. God is really the skipper from Gilligan's Island.

[Sam]

Ridge - here's my thought process, unusual as it may be. Thread started off about earthquakes. Some frivolity began to enter around post #9. Round about post#19 talk turned to volcanoes. Shortly after that Hopeak mentions a fear of wildfires and not being able to outrun them. You then made a post about being able to reach a lake that wasn't frozen over. OK here's the part where my mind wanders. Volcanoes - Wildfires - Wildfire starts because of lava flow from volcano - Hopeak runs looking for lake to jump into to escape fire - ***drats*** lake is frozen over - along comes pyroclastic flow traveling at 60 meters a second (or 216 kilometers per hour) - flow hits frozen lake - ice melts - Hopeak jumps in and is saved - life is good.

OK - that's how my mind sometimes works.......besides it was getting late.

If the lava hits the water near enough to melt the ice on the lake it might cook hopeak, and or kill with fumes. Some of the lava might have enough minerals to chemically make the water caustic. But hey some chance to live is better than none.

[Rick]

Not Hopeak. He's fast! When you wear a rubber loin cloth in the wilderness you have to be just to survive. By the way, here's a little known video of him racing a cheetah. I'm tellin' you the man is faaaaaast!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgNNH-s3t6s

[Arkansas_Ranger]

Got up this morning to see that you guys had a 5.4 earthquake (Illinois and Indiana). Not an emergency that you normally prepare for in that part of the country is it? I imagine that good general emergency planning (communications plan, bug out/in supplies) would go a long way to help in a situation like that.....and a cool head.

Was it from the New Madrid fault?

[nell67]

Another quake this morning at 1:40 am.slept through this one!

[Rick]

Arkansas - Hmmm. It's from the Wabash Fault. There seems to be a difference of opinion in the scientific community whether the Wabash Fault is part of the New Madrid Fault or an entirely separate fault. In my uninformed opinion, I think they are all related. The Midwest sits on solid bedrock. Think of it as a table top. If you shake one corner of the table the opposite corner is going to shake with the same intensity. That's why Midwest quakes are so bad. In California, you have a fractured rock sub strata because the two continental plates are slamming into each other and the underlying bedrock breaks up.

A big quake in Illinois could be felt in New York with little problem.

Nell - I snoozed through it, too. Takes a lot to rock my world.

[nell67]

LOL,evidently,it takes a lot to rock mine as well!

[crashdive123]

It is really interesting to me the way we condition ourselves for certain situations. Those on the forum that are living in wilderness areas (Hopeak, Wildwoman, Bragg come to mind - sorry for any omissions) probably sleep soundly through the night with the sounds of bears, coyotes, etc. Those of us in more urban settings are more likely to adapt to the sounds of that type of area. I can sleep through alot. A few months ago one of our smoke detectors went off (to this day don't know why). My wife said I was standing in the hallway with a fire extinguisher in hand and the lights on almost before she got her eyes open. I guess twenty years of being around submarines and being atuned to alarms will always be with me. For the record - don't think I would have slept through an earthquake - even a minor one.