Sunday night Earthquake felt in the Ozarks, USGS reports two in Guy, AR Wow.., and Uh-Oh.. Excerpts:
SPRINGFIELD —
Just after 11 p.m. (11:00:50) Sunday, a 4.7 magnitude earthquake registered near Guy, Arkansas.
The quake was felt as far north as Ebenezer and Ozark, Missouri, as far west as Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and as far northeast as Cabool and Willow Springs, Missouri.
The USGS reports, 18-minutes later, an apparent aftershock. A second earthquake near Guy registered at 3.8 magnitude.
So, wow.. Earthquake, huh? I guarantee Monday will be a busy day for the insurance agencies.. Lots of policies bought today.. Lots of hillbillies, jawin' at the grocery store. And a lot more people will now take the possibility of a catastrophic earthquake in the SW Missouri NW Arkansas area seriously, that's for sure..
I didn't feel it. And that makes the odd sounding thunder I half paid attention to actually earthquake booms.
At this time, we (The area effected is my area..) are still under a tornado watch until 3 a.m.. My dog's been acting very aloof and generally odd today, which isn't like her at all. I wrote her behavior off as pre-thunderstorm nerves, but in hindsight, maybe it was earthquake jitters.. We might have sedated her maybe once before in the last almost eight years, (I got a prescription for doggie downers a couple years ago, but forget to use them until it's too late. Events that effect her happen infrequently, and I get a little scattered.. I should be more proactive, but am not..) but this was, at the most, the second time ever for her. She was flyin' highhigh at 11:00, but did lift her head for the booms, got up to run, but was just too.. fluid.. to go too far. So she laid back down. It appears that she enjoys the sedation.
A little while later I heard some more thunder from the oncoming storm, which almost magically, according to the radar, split open and missed us, save for a little rain. The dog is now on a blanket on the couch, almost snoring. The house is almost quiet.
And here I sit, staring, typing, staring, and hoping this was not a foreshock or an omen, portending a larger, more active future, while the spectre of Earthquake rises, almost simultaneously, within the Ozarkian populace.
I hope that History never writes the passage, "At 11:00 p.m. on February 27, 2011 the first earthquake hit. Locals felt the rumbling over a large area in both Arkansas and Missouri, but viewed the quake with curiousity, rather than as a warning. That perspective turned out to be catastrophic.."
Creepy, right?
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