Earthquake on the GA/SC border! (Near Augusta & the bomb plant)

[Are_grits_groceries]

@mpoppel: UPDATE:
USGS puts magnitude of quake on Georgia-South Carolina border at 4.4, struck at depth of just 2.9 miles

Okay. Who do we surrender to?
Getting old....

[Fumesucker]

1. Felt it just a bit here east of Atlanta

Thought I was hallucinating until my neighbor said something to me a couple of minutes later.

[okaawhatever]

2. A bomb plant near an earthquake fault line? nt

[CherokeeDem]

3. The Savannah River Plant....

My dad worked there many years ago... I think the reactors there have been shut down but not sure.

I was born in Aiken, SC.... never realized there was a fault-line there.

[okaawhatever]

4. Well, if there was an earthquake there was most likely a fault line. There is a huge fault line

running through Memphis, TN. Most people don't realize it. Oh well.

[CherokeeDem]

5. I live in Kentucky now...

and we have a fault line very near by and have had an earthquake along it....

I just Googled fault lines and surprise... SC is a hot spot... Like I said, never knew that in all the years I lived there.

We learn something new every day!

[okaawhatever]

6. I'm in TN, just south of Nashville. I'm glad you get to vote for Alison Lundergran-Grimes nt

[CherokeeDem]

8. Me, too....

So far she is doing quite well... we are encouraged. I'm a bit surprised at the polling numbers she's pulling, although Governor Beshear has done such an excellent job and I think that is helping. If we can get McConnell out... then we set our sites on Rand Paul. In many ways, he's more of an embarrassment than McConnell.

I'm in Lexington.... been to Nashville a lot over the years.

[Are_grits_groceries]

7. South Carolina has a lot of fault lines.

Many of them are extinct but some of them are up to something. One of the largest earthquakes in the US occurred in Charleston, SC in 1886.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earthquake-shakes-charleston-south-carolina

[CherokeeDem]

9. All the years I lived there...

nearly 18, I never knew there were faults there. Thanks for the info on the quake in 1886... very interesting. I wonder if my friends in Charleston know about that... I think I'll give them something to think about. But then you guys have been through enough this week... I'll wait!

[Are_grits_groceries]

10. If they are natives of that area they know.

People are probably still telling stories that were handed down.

People who have moved in? Maybe.

[CherokeeDem]

11. My friends are natives....

Many generations... although I was born in Aiken, my family had just moved there.

I spoke with her last night... she did know. As did my Dad.... I'm the one who didn't have a clue!

[rdking647]

13. a lot of people dont realize that

besides the west coast there is serious earthquake danger in the northeast,around charleston south carolina and memphis tennessee.
a major quake in any of those places today would be among the most devastating disasters in us history.
katrina like or worse

[sorefeet]

12. Will the earth take 10 more years

of fracking???? Or should they try to set off the Yellowstone. Just get it over with.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

14. fracking? in SC... FFS n/t

[rudolph the red]

15. That's the spirit!