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Date Posted: 17:18:51 11/06/11 Sun
Author: Debbie S.
Subject: Earthquakes

Seriously, doesn't the Midwest have enough to worry about with severe thunderstorms and tornadoes? We don't need any stinkin' earthquakes too! Poor Oklahoma! At least in Kansas we just got rattled.

Debbie S.

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[> Re: Earthquakes -- Valerie, 19:54:02 11/06/11 Sun

That's what we get for being so close to the New Madrid fault line. In 1800-something, there was an earthquake that was so bad, the Mississippi River flowed BACKWARD for a long time after. My meteorologist friend told me that.
And you're right: Our weather is kooky as it is. I was unsettled by seeing the water in my glass tremble Jurassic Park-style (minus the dinosaurs, regrettably).


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[> [> Aftershock -- Debbie S., 17:10:54 11/09/11 Wed

Definitely felt the aftershock a couple nights ago. Only a 4.7, but made one of the dogs bark and we had a little movement and rattling going on.

Debbie S.


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[> Re: Earthquakes -- Brittany, 07:22:11 11/07/11 Mon

When I saw that on the news, I was totally shocked. I lived in Northwest Arkansas for a few years (small portion of my life, but I left a big part of my heart there), and I remember wondering a few times if maybe it would be better to move to California and just have earthquakes because the tornadoes were so bad and were/are one of my worst fears. I've never been to California, but I know that no matter the danger, it would be hard leaving. And I left in 1999 after some serious record breaking tornadoes went through my area!

I read an article about all of this, and I was surprised to hear that there are a number of earthquakes in the Oklahoma/Arkansas area each year. That really surprised me, not only because you don't think of earthquakes there, but because I can feel earthquakes from underground. Or at least I was told this . . . Do you ever feel the earth shake a little and ask someone near you if they felt that too and they say no? Or just kind of feel sick to your stomach and dizzy for no obvious reason? I noticed the shaking after I had a concussion and all kinds of weird stuff happened and I figured it was just one of them. I think I was just more in tune to things going on because the doctors would want to know everything weird I felt. Anyway, a few years ago I was talking to someone at work about her missions trip to Peru, and she told me that a handful of people (including herself) got sick when the rest of the people were fine. They thought it was just altitude sickness, but then someone asked if they sometimes felt the earth shaking, and they admitted they did, and they were told that they had a special sense of earthquakes that were going on thousands of miles underground (I think that much? After a while numbers that big just seem the same). For some reason you could sense it stronger in Peru or that area of Peru. When she told me, a bunch of things clicked into place. My mom also has it, and a lot of stuff I just figured we shared germs with probably was us sharing that sense. We were both sick over the weekend, and I read the earthquake could be felt in Wisconsin, so I wonder if we could feel it a little bit further or if there was more going on underneath the ground? I'm curious to see what my friend's weekend was like.

Do any of you guys get this, too? Or have even heard of the phenomenon?

Also, I was wondering, if you already have a sixth sense, does this mean it is the seventh sense? ;P


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