Comments on: North Escambia Area’s Significant Earthquake; Could It Happen Again?

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:55:45 +0000

NORTH ESCAMBIA ALABAMA SITS ON THE BAHAMAS SEISMIC ZONE….ACCORDING TO RESEARCH I HAVE DONE…IT IS A FAIRLY ACTIVE FAULT…JUST NOT HERE IN OUR AREA…WHICH THEN LEADS RESEARCHERS TO BELIEVE THAT WE COULD IN THE NEAR FUTURE BE DUE FOR A BIG ONE….GO FIGURE….GOES TO SHOW YOU…YOU CAN’T ESCAPE MOTHER NATURE……

By: Scott Godwin

Scott Godwin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:33:43 +0000

Well Grits you are right well as far as the research went anyway.The Drilling Companies are supposed to abandoned holes or do something to accomedate the empty holes.If you think and I used to work in the oilfield and there were actually more drilling rigs than people think.I am no scientist but if you think of all the oil,mud,etc. that was brought out of the earth there could be more shifting underneath that would cause earthquakes.Like I said I am no scientist but I said that there would be more after the first one struck.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:23:57 +0000

“I am wondering if it was related to the “New Madrid” fault line?”

Probably not since Wikipedia puts the fault system elsewhere:

“The 150 mi (240 km) long fault system, which extends into five states, stretches southward from Cairo, Illinois, through Hayti, Missouri, Caruthersville and New Madrid, through Blytheville, Arkansas, to Marked Tree. It also covers a part of west Tennessee, near Reelfoot Lake, extending southeast into Dyersburg.

Most of the seismicity is located from 3 to 15 mi (5 to 25 km) beneath the Earth’s surface.”

So if it doesn’t come any closer than Arkansas and Tennessee, it shouldn’t be related.

David just thinking

By: Jack moran

Jack moran — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:30:53 +0000

I am wondering if it was related to the “New Madrid” fault line?

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:55:10 +0000

“(V) Atmore, Flomaton, Frisco City and Century
Almost everyone feels movement. Sleeping people are awakened. Doors swing open or close. Dishes are broken. Pictures on the wall move. Small objects move or are turned over. Trees might shake. Liquids might spill out of open containers ”

Homes shakes, we awaken.

DHG: Patsy, are you washing a load of clothes?
PCG: No.
DHG: Hmmm.

Then we went back to sleep in Bluff Springs, 3 miles south of Century

By: GRITS

GRITS — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:25:41 +0000

“Two professors in the Department of Geology at Auburn University, Joan Gomberg and Lorraine Wolf, published a journal article a few years after the earthquake that theorized that the event was actually caused by the oil and gas industry and extraction wells located from Escambia County, Ala, to Jay.”

ROTFLOL!!!!

I got a lot of thoughts about that one, but I’ll keep them to myself.

By: GRITS

GRITS — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:23:26 +0000

I hate to be picky, but isn’t Brewton further away from the epicenter than Atmore and Flomaton? Seems to me the closer you are, the worse you get shook.

Or should the towns be in that order because of some seismic bands that I don’t comphrehend? I know hurricanes, I don’t know a thing about earthquakes. Inquiring mind wants to know!

We lived in a trailer here in Flomaton then and it almost slid off the blocks! The only thing that held it on was the tie downs. Dishes fell out of the cabinets and broke. I slept through the whole thing.

By: Paula Jernigan

Paula Jernigan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:30:14 +0000

William, you are a fount of scientific information! Thanks for giving my students lots of material to discuss in science class! Archaeological digs, bald eagles, sun dogs, and now seismic activity! Way to go!

By: jj

jj — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:42:57 +0000

Just letting you know it was felt in Bratt also. My husband was awaken by the movement and the first thing he said, this is an earthquake as he had experienced these in his younger days living in California.

By: Reader

Reader — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:19:13 +0000

It would be nice to see a graph for time around 3:35 a.m. on October 24, 1997,