The Great Milwaukee Earthquake of 2004

In article , Wolfgang
wrote:

"Russell" wrote in message
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Tough call. I mean, the surfing is better on the left coast (or so I
hear, anyway), but the right has better Atlantic salmon fishing.
Personally, I guess I can't see any real problem with living on an
isthmus.

Wolfgang
a man, a plan, a canal....oconomowoc.......hm........that needs some
work, i think.

I guess it would make sense that the Atlantic Salmon fishing is better
near the Atlantic vice the Pacific ocean but then Ihave caught
Landlocked Atlantics in Pass Lake less than a 1/4 mile from the Pacific
(well, Puget Sound) . Guess there's less sense in a name than ever
before.

Allen

"Tim J." wrote in message
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Based on purely scientific data, this appears to be the outcome of the
"big one"
centered in the Midwest:
http://css.sbcma.com/timj/pics/earthquake.gif
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HTH,
Tim
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Thanks for sparing us, Tim. But could we trade Texas,Mississippi, and
Louisiana for Montana, Wyoming and Colorado? Just for the fishing, y'know.
BTW, I see you've appropriately renamed Florida.

Danl

"Wolfgang" wrote in message ...
woke me at shortly after one o'clock this morning.
"Hm........earthquake," thinks I. I went back to sleep.

Wolfgang
who, having now lived through one, still doesn't understand what all
the fuss is about.

They can be a lot of fun.
I was on the 32 floor of a building in downtown San Francisco when
there was a "mild" one ( can't remeber the Richter #s ). The guy in
the next office said " Don't worry, if it's bad, at least for 30
seconds you get the best view in the world."
When I was a kid earthquake would shake the cans and jars off the
shelves at Safeway. The jars would break and all the labels would
come off the cans. Safeway would sell the cans twenty for a dollar.
It made for some interesting meals. Thats how we discovered gorbonzo
beans, gooseberrys, and other interesting things.

Allen Epps wrote:



I guess it would make sense that the Atlantic Salmon fishing is better
near the Atlantic vice the Pacific ocean but then Ihave caught
Landlocked Atlantics in Pass Lake less than a 1/4 mile from the Pacific
(well, Puget Sound) . Guess there's less sense in a name than ever
before.


They're farming Atlantics on the West coast. The last I heard, there
have been escapees that have attempted to spawn in some streams.

Willi

"Willi" wrote in message
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Allen Epps wrote:



I guess it would make sense that the Atlantic Salmon fishing is better
near the Atlantic vice the Pacific ocean but then Ihave caught
Landlocked Atlantics in Pass Lake less than a 1/4 mile from the Pacific
(well, Puget Sound) . Guess there's less sense in a name than ever
before.


They're farming Atlantics on the West coast. The last I heard, there
have been escapees that have attempted to spawn in some streams.

Hell, they've been farming Europeans all over North America for five
centuries. Escapees have spawned successfully literally everywhere on the
planet.......um........presumably, a few have done so outside the Earth's
atmosphere as well.

Wolfgang
gonna have to get up pretty early in the day to hijack MY thread!

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:06:09 -0400, "Tim J."
wrote:


"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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woke me at shortly after one o'clock this morning.
"Hm........earthquake," thinks I. I went back to sleep.

Having an earthquake in the Midwest puts an entirely different perspective on
things. Will everything west of Milwaukee slide into the Pacific, or will
Milwaukee have beach front property on the Atlantic? Hmmm. . .


I've been wondering what a really good one would do to some of the
Great Lakes and the rivers near them? What if Lake Michigan decides
to flow down to meet the 'Sippi? What if Lake Superior cracks just a
bit and starts to empty down the St. Croix river?

And the cities? Eeek! The Midwest has never built with earthquakes
in mind. Chicago would be, uh, twisted and shattered. And they
thought that when Nachez Under the Hill (the local slum, I gather)
became a literal name it was a disaster. It'd be a worse one in these
days.

Up here in St. Paul my daughter noticed the one that happened in
Columbia in South America. I didn't because I was sleeping and
because our house was built on the kind of ground that shook when kids
ran through the yard for a short cut. Another one on the New Madrid
could be more interesting than rattling all the stuff in the
cupboards.

Somewhere on the Web is a site showing all the faults in the middle of
the country. To no one's surprize, it concentrates in the Mississippi
River valley and some of its tributaries. Hmm. Think that's how it
got to be the Mississippi River Valley? Some of us might not wind up
with ocean front, but there might be a very much wider river in the
end. Once it settled down from bursting through all the dams and
levees that'd be at least strained by a good 'quake.
--

rbc:vixen,Minnow Goddess,Willow Watcher,and all that sort of thing.
Often taunted by trout.
Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli

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On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:06:09 -0400, "Tim J."
wrote:


"Wolfgang" wrote in message
...
woke me at shortly after one o'clock this morning.
"Hm........earthquake," thinks I. I went back to sleep.

Having an earthquake in the Midwest puts an entirely different
perspective on
things. Will everything west of Milwaukee slide into the Pacific, or will
Milwaukee have beach front property on the Atlantic? Hmmm. . .


I've been wondering what a really good one would do to some of the
Great Lakes and the rivers near them? What if Lake Michigan decides
to flow down to meet the 'Sippi? What if Lake Superior cracks just a
bit and starts to empty down the St. Croix river?

And the cities? Eeek! The Midwest has never built with earthquakes
in mind. Chicago would be, uh, twisted and shattered. And they
thought that when Nachez Under the Hill (the local slum, I gather)
became a literal name it was a disaster. It'd be a worse one in these
days.

Up here in St. Paul my daughter noticed the one that happened in
Columbia in South America. I didn't because I was sleeping and
because our house was built on the kind of ground that shook when kids
ran through the yard for a short cut. Another one on the New Madrid
could be more interesting than rattling all the stuff in the
cupboards.

Somewhere on the Web is a site showing all the faults in the middle of
the country. To no one's surprize, it concentrates in the Mississippi
River valley and some of its tributaries. Hmm. Think that's how it
got to be the Mississippi River Valley? Some of us might not wind up
with ocean front, but there might be a very much wider river in the
end. Once it settled down from bursting through all the dams and
levees that'd be at least strained by a good 'quake.
--


Well, to put things in perspective, when the New Madrid quake(s) occurred in
1811, 1812, they were accompanied with in excess of 1800 quakes of the
magnitude of the Great Milwaukee Temblor of 2004. I think there's no reason
to fear the visit of St. Paul anytime soon.

--riverman

"riverman" wrote in message
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Well, to put things in perspective, when the New Madrid quake(s)
occurred in
1811, 1812, they were accompanied with in excess of 1800 quakes of
the
magnitude of the Great Milwaukee Temblor of 2004. I think there's no
reason
to fear the visit of St. Paul anytime soon.

Sure, it's easy to be dismissive when you're enjoying the good life in
some safe place. You don't know what it's like out here in the danger
zone.

Wolfgang

Cyli:
Some of us might not wind up
with ocean front, but there might be a very much wider river in the
end. Once it settled down from bursting through all the dams and
levees that'd be at least strained by a good 'quake.

Growing up I read Allan Danzig's short story, the Great Nebraska Sea. It
has always been more of a warning than amusement to me. Now its also fodder
for folksingers. Lyrics are linked below

Living in MO, the New Madrid fault was all too real and made its presence
known with more or less subtle reminders that the quakes of 1811 were
tremendous in scope. In 1976, a 4.2 quake centered near Blytheville AR,
at town that currently sits 9 feet below the Mississippi River as a result
of subsidance in 1811, caused the elevator I was in at a hospital in St.
Louis to sway and its breakers to trip. The radial distance was about 250
miles. In 1990, there was a quake guru who predicted a major event on the
New Madrid fault. Every hospital in MO was directed to take precautions to
quake proof as far as possible. We bought every inch of velcro available in
town to strap all of our lab equipment to the benches. When I left that
facility, it was still untested.

When I answered the wrong ad and wound up living in Blytheville AR for a
time, there was one other fault related item that amused me. A
fundamentalist group from S. California had picked up and moved en masse
from CA to Caruthersville MO. According to their leader, God had promised
to destroy CA by earthquake and had directed them to Caruthersville MO for
safety. Cartuthersvilles sits sqaurely astride the New Madrid Fault.

http://www.efn.org/~bch/songs/nebraskasealyr.html

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

Well, maybe when you experience one where, say, people actually DIE you
might change your mind.

Wolfgang
who, having now lived through one, still doesn't understand what all
the fuss is about.