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Earthquake in NC?
- Thread starter Loud Wrong
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Seeing lots of people tweeting about an earthquake in NC, so apparently yes.
2.6 apparently
Edit: NVM they updated again, 5.1
2.6 apparently
Edit: NVM they updated again, 5.1
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This year is crazy. I've felt one here in my life, but not as strong as this. Theres a door in my office that rattles a bit when people walk near it, and it rattled for about a minute prior to the quake that I felt.
Think that was an earlier one. Looks like a 5.1
Holy shit, I was looking around my house for something wrong.
Never thought I'd experience an earthquake in my lifetime
Never thought I'd experience an earthquake in my lifetime
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It occurred in some place called Sparta, NC. I guess there's a fault line near there that extends from Virginia to Alabama.
We had a 5.8 in 2011 with an epicenter in Virginia that I felt while living in Maryland.
Wonder how far this was felt. I didn't feel anything in VA with this one.
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Felt it. We get tremors up here every few months; wasn't a big thing.
lol y'all never heard of Sparta before
lol y'all never heard of Sparta before
We still have little fault lines in the Appalachians, can't remember the name of it
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Yep. That's the only other time I experienced one on the east coast.
I'm in Southern Virginia and felt it pretty clearly. As for the cause, I recall hearing at University that there's a lot of stress from the load of the Appalachian mountains; its possible that was the cause.
I'm in SC and didn't feel anything for what it's worth. Midlands.
Crazy to hear that NC, of all places had an earthquake.
Crazy to hear that NC, of all places had an earthquake.
As I said, there are a couple seismic zones/fault areas in the Appalachians because plates aren't perfectly solid and are riddled with cracks and such. This region has many fault lines deep beneath the surface rock.
This likely was from East Tennessee/Southern Appalachian Seismic Zone activity, which is actually one of the most active seismic regions in the country.
This likely was from East Tennessee/Southern Appalachian Seismic Zone activity, which is actually one of the most active seismic regions in the country.
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It definitely shook for about thirty seconds, but I only felt about 5 seconds of it. The rest was only low enough for me to hear but not feel.
Actually felt my room shaking for a few seconds about an hour or so ago and I'm in the Midlands of SC. That is a unsettling feeling. This thread popping up confirmed that I wasn't just imagining things.
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in charlotte and felt it shake me on the 2nd floor of my place. That was the first time Ive ever felt anything like that wow. We dont get stuff like that here.
Durham people! I'm also in Durham and didn't feel it either. Must be just South/Western NC?
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Are you in a house or apartment building? Not sure if that makes a difference but my fiancé and I definitely didn't feel it in our ranch house.
Gotta be a nice house if it's Cary lol. Place is expensive.
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House, but it shouldn't make a difference. The ground shook everything on top of it.
It certainly is now, but it wasn't when my grandparents moved here. I was given their house when they passed. The tech boom in RTP really changed Cary.
I was just on the phone with a customer service rep who was asking if I felt it here in the midlands in SC and I had no clue what she was talking about. She said it was somewhere called Sparta, NC and I thought maybe she meant Spartanburg on this side of the state line. Don't know where Sparta is but I had fallen asleep while watching a movie on the couch and it didn't wake me up if it could be felt here.
Yeah, I definitely don't live in Cary. Shit's too expensive. Durham's way cooler, anyway. 😎
Welp, definitely didn't feel it here. I was awake and making coffee, too, so it's not like I slept through it. I was in DC for the 2011 VA earthquake and I *definitely* felt that. So interesting the few Durham peeps here didn't feel it but other nearby places did.
In Charlotte as well and didn't feel anything. (Hi Charlotte people!)
We're about an hour south and felt it a little bit.
