~ MADRID E.Q. WATCH - TENNESSEE!! ~

Louisville, KY thanks you for the information.

Those in Louisville and throughout Western Kentucky felt the New Madrid 8.0 plus magnitude quakes of 1811 and 1812 very very well.

Thus, I have been watching the seismic activity out of Guy, Arkansas very closely.

I think the New Madrid fault is getting ready to slip and badly. I feel the ground rolling underneath my house these days several times a day almost every day. It is very noticeable and there is usually nothing noted on the USGS when I check.

Alot of quakes are simply not being reported by the USGS to the public.

This lack of reporting is probably being done to quell massive panic.

That doesn't make it "right". The USGS doesn't have the right to suppress information like that.

People need to know so they can prepare by stocking up on provisions and water. People also need to be able to mentally prepare themselves so when "the big one" does happen, they don't snap.

Taking weighty objects off the shelves here Boss.

Unfortunately, the USGS is funded by our government mostly and they have to do as they are told, if anyone is harboring information it is the government, if there is a large quake on the horizon they will not tell the public because it covers too large of an area and would create mass panic, perhaps killing more people in the panic to get out than the earthquake itself, and we all know what kind of loss of revenue this would create in those states if everyone left.
I do not side with the government in this it is our right as citizens and taxpayers in this country to know when disasters may strike if they are forewarned by USGS.
This is just another example of why our government needs to change the way it does things for the peoples sake.

most people dont realize that a quake there will not just affect us in the few state area. If a big one goes off The world could lose half of its rice and soybean supply in an instant. That would snowball into the nation losing half of its poultry supply because Arkansas poultry farmers rely on their own state to be able to grow enough agri to make feed for the birds. It would be a worldwide food famine like no other...

Totally agree with your statement.

I agree with your summation of events. It looks as if something big may be in the works. I don't normally reply to these threads when seperated into several but together they make for a bigger picture and of course a possible event. We will all be impacted soon - some more than others.

Do you think this might have anything to do with the Madrid EQ Watch?





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~ Thanks, y'all, for sharing!

~ I've been wanting to share this with people... it's nothing scientific, or verifiable with photos, etc. but it's what I've come to realize could be personal observations and indications that something is... not quite right. Or, of course, it could be nothing, or attributable to other factors. Nevertheless, I'm going to share it now (PLEASE skip if you bore easily LOL!!)...

~ I was away from the internet this weekend, traveling through NC and SC, and only just saw all the activity in Arkansas today over on the other threads. Ever since I got back late Sunday evening, here in Knoxville, I didn't have my usual 'ah, it's soooooooooo good to be home!' feeling that I get when I come back. Nothing was wrong, it was just a vague feeling. I chalked it up to hours of driving. I turned on the internet, to jump on GLP to see what I had been missing.

~ For the very first time, I got a black screen that said something like my power source was 'jacked in' incorrectly (can't remember the exact message, I'll write it down the next time I power down/power up) and had to hit F1 to continue. I thought nothing of it. Until I noticed several 30 second long shutdowns of the cable box for the TV throughout the evening and into the morning. Still thought nothing of it. I did notice that ALL of my lights in the house were almost imperceptibly dimmer, though. STILL thought nothing of it. I fed and walked the dogs, who seemed a little rambunctious, as if there was the scent of another dog in the air or something. Nothing too unusual, though, as there's raccoons and possum and kitties galore around my neighborhood here. Got them back in for the night. Fed the kitties, who were their usual lazy-assed selves and sleeping. Then, I ate something, even though I wasn't hungry, kinda had to force myself (this girl NEVER has to do that, lol... this time of year my Scandinavian genes seem to want to put on winter weight, especially on my hips LOL...) and it was then that I noticed that chewing the food gave me a headache. Then as I ate, my ears began to pop, as if there were pressure changes. I put some raw garlic in the food, just in case I 'rubbed elbows' with a bug somewhere this weekend, and again, didn't think much of it. But I did notice that my teeth, and my gums, and my jaw was sore, after I ate. Odd, but not 'supernatural', by any stretch of the imagination.

~ Soooooooo I stepped outside for a final smoke before bed. When I first stepped out, I could swear that I saw what looked like a 'sky-wide' flash, not blinding at all, but kinda like heat lightning does from far away. But it illuminated about a 1/3 of the sky for a split second. I saw that there were no clouds WHATSOEVER in the sky, so I chalked that up to eyes adjusting to the outside, after looking at the laptop screen. After a couple minutes, it happened again, but from the OTHER side of sky. Again, I thought nothing of it, really. But I do remember someone saying something here once about geo-magnetic storms. As I was stepping in I heard a kind of boom, and instantly thought, 'Ah, it IS heat lightning', but it was more like the boom of a dump-truck unloading it's bed, a good distance away, which quite honestly, it could have been, I guess, even though it was somewhere around 3 or 3:30 in the morning. Again, because I was tired, and feeling sore-ish and a little agitated, even bitchy (chalked THAT one up to reading a few threads here on GLP lol), I really didn't pay it much mind. Took a multivitamin, brushed my teeth (painful), and started to tuck into bed.

~ I tossed and turned, even though I was tired, for what must have been about 30 minutes. My bed is like a cloud, and I love it, but I just couldn't get comfy, it was like a strange bed, and any way that I laid on it, it made me feel sore. Eventually, though, I drifted off to sleep.

~ I awoke with a jolt, one of those 'walking on thin ice pre-dreams', for lack of a better term I guess, and that's happened to me in the past. BUT: this is when one of my cats, who is 18 years old, and deaf as well, kicked up a SERIOUS fuss. She was yowling, and 'squacking', I will call it, and because she's deaf, she was REALLY loud! She's NEVER like that! The way she was carrying on, I thought that she had hurt herself or something, or maybe had a nightmare, so I brought her in with me. She was VERY happy to be with me, and wouldn't leave me be for like 15 minutes. Uncharacteristically affectionate. The other cat was up and about, I assumed the older cat's agitation had woken her. The dogs were also up, and similarly, I thought that the old gal's plaintive yowling had upset them. So, after awhile, she calmed down again, and we went to sleep.

~ We, or at least I, eventually fell back asleep. But twice more during the night, she woke me up with her loud yowling. I was worried about her, being old and all, but when I spent time petting her and holding her, she calmed down, so it didn't seem like she was injured or ill.

~ I didn't sleep well. My day kind of sucked. My hours at work were cut today, everyone's were, and everyone was in a bad mood, and so was I. Almost everyone I talked to today complained of being congested, and sore, and one co-worker said she was up all night with nose-bleeds. Could be change of seasons, allergies, I don't know.

~ It's just that the more that I think about it, the more I began to think that maybe, just maybe, these were tiny indicators of something much bigger than merely unrelated randomnesses.

~ Again, I don't mean to bore anyone, or to go on and on, and it could all be nothing, but I just thought I would share what my day was like, in case anyone else had experienced anything similar. Right now, the dogs and cats are sleeping like logs, and I'm soon to turn in. A bit of a headache (drank water, taken advil, still there, though...) and some slight body aches, and my ears just popped again, but I'm tired and looking forward to some dreamless, uneventful sleep. ESPECIALLY after last night!

~ I agree! It's better that people know, THEN they can act responsibly on the information. Panic happens when people are experiencing the fear of the unknown!

~ Be safe up there!

From 2008
Government Warns of "Catastrophic" U.S. Quake
[link to www.rap-con.com]

Link to full article from that page.

earthquakes are harmless

~ Thank you. And yes, it's true, it must be a hard call to make for those 'in the know', even when there's overwhelming evidence supporting the possibility that a disaster may occur. All of the variables, will it happen or not, the logistics of evacuations. Glad I'm not the one making the decision for thousands upon thousands of people.

~ But, of course, if the government is sitting on ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE that the Madrid is about to go off, they have a DUTY _AND_ A RESPONSIBILITY TO INFORM THE PUBLIC.

~ But, you and I both know... well, we'll just leave it at that!! lol ;)

I live in North Alabama and I am watching all this very closely too. Great thread!

~ DEFINITELY! I'm actually glad I live in East Tennessee, and have a few hundred miles between me and the Madrid. Though, if the old first-hand accounts are heeded, I would feel more comfortable if I had another few hundred miles more between me and that rift. Also, after seeing the gas basins beneath the state, makes me feel a little iffy about things.

~ The thing is, the last big one recorded was a DOOZY, but there is the possibility that it could pale in comparison to the next one... I guess only time will tell.

~ It DOES seem like we're each bringing pieces to a jigsaw puzzle together. HOPEFULLY, we can solve it, and together see the whole picture, before it's too late...

~ I've been through all kinds of things, but I have to admit, nothing else makes one feel TRULY SMALL and fragile like the very earth beneath your feet trembling and bucking and giving way... again, HOPEFULLY, none of us will experience this, or at least, the worst case scenarios of it...

Yeah, me too, and here I am up at 4am feeling incredibly stressed and no reason to feel that way. In fact, just before I came to glp, I wrote in my journal, "what the hell's wrong with me tonight? Stressed is hardly a good word for it. It's beyond that tonight."

Then I come here and opened this thread.

My daughter who lives in this area too said she had a horrific headache all day.

Maybe just a big weather change. Hope it's something as simple as that.

Last Edited by JustinCase on 10/12/2010 04:58 AM

~ Thank you The Order of Nine... TRULY chilling video, though it is VERY interesting. Cayce's possible map of a future U.S. would spell doom and disaster on a scale never before seen in human history... The Madrid fault line is perhaps the wild card that our nation CANNOT prepare for, and should it go, as indicated in the video, well... let's hope and pray that we never see it!

~ Thanks for the link, Looky! It's true, a disaster of the proportions possible in a major Madrid fault earthquake would mean death and destruction for millions upon millions of people, and we would quickly find that our emergency services would be unable to cope with the wide-spread severity of it...

~ Thank you for the lightheartedness! ;)

~ Thank you Kristina! I'm going to be keeping an eye on all of this as well... the south is SOOOOOO beautiful, it pains my heart to think of it being so fragile... Be safe down there!! =)

~ EXACTLY!! I'm going to be VERY aware of myself and my surroundings, but deep in my heart I'm hoping that this will all just pass, and as some have suggested on other related threads, that these smaller quakes will allow built-up pressure along the Madrid fault line to dissipate nearly harmlessly.

~ You and your family be safe!! =)

I'm a little farther north.. but was raised in Southern Illinois and all my family still lives there..

So I am keeping an eye on things too.

~ Hey Butterfly Girl! Well, if you look at the above video, and bear in mind the Cayce map of the future U.S., you and I may be sharing a row-boat to go visit them somdeday!! lol

Have you gotten any sleep OP?

-anyway-

I've been watching the EQ threads since yesterday too.
I am a state or two north of TN - but would likely feel a quake if a major one went off.

Keep us posted, I'm adding this to the list of favorites.

Animals do that, especially old deaf ones, I SIT UP AND LISTEN!

how much has the mississippi flooded ? The liberty man said when the miss swells up to a certain size then there will be a huge quake of 9+. And before all of this happens there will be flooding on the east coast, then west coast, and then boom. Which has already happend.

In both the upper and lower basins, there is no significantly high water levels at this time. [link to www.riverwatch.noaa.gov]