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Winehole23
10-20-2011, 11:04 AM
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/texas/111020-earthquake-hits-south-of-san-antonio
silverblk mystix
10-20-2011, 11:05 AM
...END of the world...
Old Man McCain
10-20-2011, 11:52 AM
It's the fracking. Fracking is known to cause small earthquakes. And Karnes City area is the epicenter of the new drilling (fracking) in the Eagle Ford.

South Tx. better get used to it.
JudynTX
10-20-2011, 12:04 PM
I felt it at 7:24 this morning. The whole building swayed. Scary shit.
mrsmaalox
10-20-2011, 12:17 PM
Isn't SA on the Balcones Fault? I believe I heard that on the tour of Natural Bridge Caverns. Don't have time to look it up right now..
xellos88330
10-20-2011, 12:20 PM
I must have slept through it. I didn't feel shit.

I am sad...
MannyIsGod
10-20-2011, 12:24 PM
Isn't SA on the Balcones Fault? I believe I heard that on the tour of Natural Bridge Caverns. Don't have time to look it up right now..

There are lots of old faults in the area due to the uplift that caused the escarpment but I don't think any of them are active.
MannyIsGod
10-20-2011, 12:26 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcones_Fault

Looks like it was actually subsidence and not uplift.
hehateme
10-20-2011, 05:48 PM
i was driving during that time and all the maniac-late to their job-drivers were swerving on the road already so didn't notice anything out of the ordinary...
m>s
10-20-2011, 06:45 PM
There are lots of old faults in the area due to the uplift that caused the escarpment but I don't think any of them are active.
someone farted and it triggered a whole series of seismic effects imho
Drachen
10-20-2011, 06:46 PM
It's the fracking. Fracking is known to cause small earthquakes. And Karnes City area is the epicenter of the new drilling (fracking) in the Eagle Ford.

South Tx. better get used to it.

This is pretty much what I thought.
Wild Cobra
10-21-2011, 03:11 AM
Does a little pittlyass 4.6 bother you guys or something?

Wake me up when it exceeds 6.0. A 6.0 is 25 times more violent.
Drachen
10-21-2011, 08:13 AM
Does a little pittlyass 4.6 bother you guys or something?

Wake me up when it exceeds 6.0. A 6.0 is 25 times more violent.

Thank you for letting us know how the scale works. I am sure there is someone here who is unaware. However, no one is pointing to its strength. They are pointing to the fact that it actually happened.
spursfan09
10-21-2011, 10:14 AM
It's okay. SA is strong. We will rebuild