“I know a lot of people did, but I didn’t,” La Russa said. “Nope.”

Obviously, it's because he was sloppy drunk.

La Russa has had success against the Giants following earthquakes.

My brother called me this morning and said he slept right through the whole thing.

Obviously, it's because he was sloppy drunk.

And he was driving, so the vibrations of the road didn't bother him.

Eh. I was awake at quarter to five and couldn't get back to sleep.

I lived in California and usually I wake up for these things (usually I'll wake up for some random reason, then the quake would hit and then I can easily go back to sleep)


I was passed out and missed the entire thing, I had to listen to people consider this an 'event' all day long..

A 5.2 magnitude quake, believed to have involved an extension of the New Madrid Fault in the Missouri Bootheel, struck before dawn.

Oh shi---

BTW, I didn't notice anything when the earthquake happened. And people farther to the West than me had reports and everything.

the Science Channel had a really neat special on the new madrid fault a month or two back. It was one of those doomsday type specials, but it was pretty cool. Apparently this fault kicks out huge sand blows, which i though was kind of cool.

February 7, 1812. It got its name from its primary location in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, near New Madrid, Louisiana Territory (now Missouri).

This earthquake was preceded by three other major quakes: two on December 16, 1811, and one on January 23, 1812. These earthquakes destroyed approximately half the town of New Madrid. There were also numerous aftershocks in the area for the rest of that winter. As a result of the quakes, large areas sank into the earth, new lakes were formed (notably Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee), and the Mississippi River changed its course, creating numerous geographic exclaves, including Kentucky Bend, along the state boundaries defined by the river. Some sections of the Mississippi River appeared to run backward for a short time. Sandblows were common throughout the area, and their effects can still be seen from the air in cultivated fields. Church bells were reported to ring in Boston, Massachusetts and sidewalks were reported to have been cracked and broken in Washington, D.C

You think Katrina was bad? Wait till this plate shifts.

Mississippi River changed its course, creating numerous geographic exclaves, including Kentucky Bend

Granted, if it weren't for New Madrid, the government would have just routed the Mississippi to go south of the Bend, creating an oxbow lake south of New Madrid.

Dr. Browning was off by a little over 17 years.

Wait till this plate shifts.

It's not the result of plates banging against one another, like on the West Coast. It's a rip from a failed attempt at the plate splitting in two way back when.

The part where the earthquake was centered was part of the features they've found under Illinois and Indiana (relatively recently), and IIRC they don't know the extent of that system, because they're rather different than more familiar West Coast features. Also, a Midwestern earthquake is going to have more punch than a Western earthquake of the same magnitude, since we're not on as solid of ground.