[PRCo] Re: Earthquakes

[hrbran99 at adelphia.net]

According to what I read in the newspaper, Cleveland's quake was 2.9 on the scale for such things and was centered seven miles northeast of Public Square out in Lake Erie. They also stated we have an average of four per year. Most are not felt.
HrB

---- Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net> wrote: 
> On June 28, 2004 there was a significant earthquake in the Chicago area.  It 
> was strong enough to wake our family from sleep at 1:10 AM.  And significant 
> enough for me to write down the date and time when it happened.
> 
> Bob 1/7/06
> 
> -----------------------------
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:50 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Quake__n__Freeze!!!!!!!
> 
> 
> > We do discuss all sorts of strange events on this list, don't we.   I
> > remember that event because I was a geology major in college.   The
> > only reason no one was hurt in the New Madrid, Missouri quake was
> > simple ... that part of the country was unpopulated then.   Or more
> > simply, we, meaning the White Northern Europeans who wrote the
> > history books,  didn't consider Native Americans to be people.
> >
> > On Jan 7, 2006, at 5:24 AM, James B. Holland wrote:
> >
> >> hrbran99 at adelphia.net wrote:
> >> .
> >>
> >>> Now to continue......as my hanging plants are still swaying back and
> >>> forth. According to the Channel 8 News we had an earthquake.....in
> >>> Cleveland, OH....go figure! Something else to worry about!
> >>
> >> .
> >> Believe it has been mentioned Right Here Before but The Worst
> >> Earthquake
> >> in the U.S.A. measured by magnitude was in Missouri  AND  that fault
> >> runs up past Chicago, up into Canada and then back down into the
> >> U.S.A.
> >> through The Great Lakes  --  donut know the eggzact location.
> >> Believe that the Missouri quake caused church bells in BeanTown to
> >> ring.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Jim__Holland
> >>
> >>
> >> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
> >>
> >> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
> >>
> >>
> >
> > 
> 
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