[UNEX] Strange vibrations/rumbles in my locale

[Hansa44]

Hmmm-- probably getting ready for a quake where there usually aren't many. Remember reading about the severe quake in Charleston, SC in the 1800's. Y'all are really scaring me.

I agree it is scarey, but I for one, prefer to know what may be happening. (or not)

What is really scarey is so many people are experiencing these things and we didn't know it till MTK started this thread. Thanks Max!!!!

So, if we have this many with just registered tb2k'rs, than how many and where that are not tb2k'rs are experiencing it all over and no one is talking about it? Are these rumblings a new phenomenon or is it a common thing? Guess we'll find out .

Forgot to mention there have been quite a few quakes about 100 miles off the Oregon coast in the last year.

 

[Plantlady]

Do you have, or can you get, any data on changes in well water static levels?

Shacknasty, sorry I really don't know much about that or have any data. You might check Jim Berkland's site to see if that is mentioned, or you can ask that question there.

http://www.syzygyjob.net/


The only New Madrid quakes listed for the past four days are these:

map 1.6 2005/01/27 19:58:48 36.530N 89.550W 2.2 7 km ( 4 mi) SSW of New Madrid, MO
map 2.7 2005/01/27 11:52:55 35.200N 92.220W 4.0 2 km ( 1 mi) WNW of Enola, AR
map 1.7 2005/01/27 03:55:13 36.700N 89.510W 9.1 9 km ( 6 mi) SE of Matthews, MO
map 1.5 2005/01/26 13:55:05 36.550N 89.810W 4.8 7 km ( 4 mi) S of Parma, MO

Whether that's all we're going to get or if we have more coming, I don't know.

The lost and found ads here today are down to 10 today (from the high of 14). I hope that's a sign that the above minor quakes are all we're going to get.

 

[American Rage]

Read the book "8.4!" It's about what would happen if an 8.4 quake hit the New Madrid fault today. Scary stuff!


Rage

 

[TIK]

I really wasn't going to post anything into this thread--but I can't help it. Two things come to mind...

I was born and raised in Pasadena, California, so I'm pretty dang familiar with earthquakes. Been in plenty of them. I usually don't "hear" quakes--even the Northridge quake--but I sure feel them. But all of these posts in this thread made me think of something that happened back when I was in high school (80-84). I had a friend of mine who I had gone to junior high with--a fellow trombone player and band geek. This guy was REALLY eccentric and ended up on drugs in his adult life. He lived about 1.5 miles north of me, which put him closer to the San Gabriel Mountains. But while in high school, he came up to me not once, but several times, and would claim that he could hear "the atomic diggers under the mountains". When I asked him to explain, he said he had very sensitive hearing and theorized that the continual rumbling he heard at nights was some kind of underground tunneling going on under the mighty San Gatbriels, and he was convinced that these were atomic powered machines (that's why I regarded him with a raised eyebrow and wondered what he was smoking). When I would explain to him that it was probably the Union Pacific that goes through Pasadena at night he would say no no no...that he KNEW what that sound was. This was different. Odd...

The other thing that came into my mind was how I could hear at times a faint rumbling in Orange County. I moved down from Pasadena back in 1990 and have been hear ever since. I too know the difference between trains and jets taking off at John Wayne, but these were different. Just a very faint but definite "rumble" sound.

Oh yeah...and don't forget...I'm famous. I was the 911 dispatcher about 7 years ago that reported on a UFO newsgroup about the VERY documented "sky quake" that occured out here in Orange County. I have the 911 tapes to prove it--our lines lit up BIG time from folks all the way from San Clemente up to Yorba Linda, and Riverside and San Bernardino County Fire Departments also were getting calls from folks from Elsinore up to Corona and into Chino Hills. I checked with Camp Pendleton and they had no flights, and the shuttle wasn't up. Lots of theories saying it was the Aurora.

 

[Hansa44]

I just talked to my dad on the phone about these rumblings and quakes and he just told me something I feel I need to post.
About 3 years ago when he lived in AZ he could hear these deep rumblings every night when he would put his head on his pillow. This went on for about 3 months and then suddenly stopped and he never heard them again. He lived in the central mountains 50 miles west of Flagstaff and 50 mi. north of Prescott.
He said these were not truck sounds. Highway too far away. He described it as almost as if it was heavy duty machinery. He couldn't hear it unless his head was on the pillow.

Recently he moved to St.George Utah and now lives with my brother and his wife. Last week they both felt an earth tremor. They reported it but there is no record of it.

What is going on folks????? My family are very reliable witnesses to these things and would not exaggerate or make any of this up.

Are these just ongoing earth changes that we just never paid any attention to or is there something more

 

[Tiberius797]

Just to add a little humor .....have you checked your house for termites....they are pretty strong resilent bastards.....

On a more serious note...maybe a call into Coasttocoastam with George Noery and ask if anyone else has felt the "quakes" or vibrations.

 

[Tiberius797]

Sorry for double post.... But yesterday a friend of mine and I were discussing the topic of the solar flares that are happening right now. We proposed a theory that what if the solar flares are interfering with our magnetic fields and gravity, causing an increase in stronger earthquakes and strange rumblings around the planet as of late?
Any opinions.

 

[Y]

First to TIK, I haven't heard about a sky quake. Is there a web site where I/we can read more?

Now to business, it seems that these reports are spread too far and wide for New Madrid to be the sole cause, although it has been unusually active this past week or so. It may have caused this current event, and other faults may cause others.

I experienced this when I was a teenager in North Little Rock AR. When I lay on my bed I could hear/feel the vibration, but when I got up, nothing. It was reported the next morning as a mild tremor in New Madrid.

It occurs to me that sound travels better through solid matter than in air. Here in Mississippi you have mostly sand and clay, you don't hear much. In northern Arkansas you have a lot of granite, you may hear/feel a lot more.

So for those of you who have experienced this, what is your area like? Hard Rock, loose sand, packed dirt? It could make a difference.



Y

 

[LeViolinist]

What we experienced was very loud = enough so to make everyone come out to where I was in the dining room,... and there was even music playing. It was similar to a large jet going over unaturally slow, and loud.

One person in our home can tell what kind of airplane or jet is overhead by the sound- very accurately - and to him this 'sound' was startling- and he thought it sounded more like a very long explosion.

Violinist wrote ====in other post >

Sometime the end of last week.

It was about 9pm. __We're in FLorida__

We were all in different rooms of the house working on our computers.
There was a long massive rumble that vibrated the house - my pc is by the glass doors and they were rattling.

Everyone came out of their workspaces to where I was, and we all went out on the lanai. (Our birds were covered - sleeping - not a peep)

Our first two concerns, like this was a massive explosion somewhere, or a sinkhole. Florida has had several large ones lately. Or even that it could have been an unusually large jet going into the space station near Cocoa, but I've heard several of the sonic booms from the shuttle, -----and this was similar, but lasted much longer.

I have been in MANY earthquakes. And this was not an earthquake. Though it lasted a bit less than a minute. (?)
LeViolinist
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[nanna]

By me is shale, bluestone and gravel, mostly. Some granite, but that's some miles away.


nanna

 

[MaxTheKnife]

Y, good question. Our house is build of solid field stone with 16" walls on a very thick concrete floor and foundation. And it's all sitting directly on top of solid rock. We live on top of a high ridge and it's said that this ridgeline runs all the way across the state of Arkansas from East to West. Anyway, you can go anywhere you want on this flat ridge top and dig down two feet or so and hit solid rock. There are two East/West ledge rock ridges on our place down the hill from us and they go as far as you would care to walk in either direction. So our house is built on solid rock. That would probably make for a very good attenuator, wouldn't you think? That may be why we could hear/feel the sound better from inside the house. I've heard small rumbles a time or two this afternoon. But each time I went outside I couldn't hear anything. Go figure.

 

[Dixielee]

One other thing...

We have several ponds on our property that have held water since way before we came. In the past year, 2 of them have started leaking. We are also on solid rock. We have 2 other ponds 10 foot above bedrock that are holding water well. Maybe no connection? Maybe something related. Also, during the past 6 years small cracks have appeared in our rock house. This is an old house that has over foot thick walls, and did not have any cracks when we moved to the property. It does make you wonder what might be going on.

 

[summerthyme]

What LeViolinist describes is EXACTLY what we heard/felt last summer. My first thought- although the weather simply wasn't "right" for it- was "tornado". That's the only thing I've experienced which had the same, prolonged, deep, powerful rumble...

It sounded much like a heavy plane or jet- but it stayed more or less stationary (at least, the sound didn't rise or fall in intensity or seem to get louder or farther away) for a good 7-8 minutes.

Oddly enough, at the same time, we could hear traffic on the closest main road, a good 3 miles away.

We're not on any normal fly patterns, and only see a heavy military plane maybe once or twice a year.

Something is definitely odd.

Summerthyme

 

[LilRose8]

MAYBE ELF

I posted earlier on this subject and thought I would give you an alternative thought to earthquakes......can this be GOVT experimentation with ELF or HAARP? See below and link.
http://www.earthpulse.com/haarp/vandalism.html


The military says the HAARP system could:

• give the military a tool to replace the electromagnetic pulse effect of atmospheric thermonuclear devices (still considered a viable option by the military through at least 1986).
• replace the huge Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) submarine communication system operating in Michigan and Wisconsin with a new and more compact technology.
• Be used to replace the over-the-horizon radar system that was once planned for the current location of HAARP, with a more flexible and accurate system.
• provide a way to wipe out communications over an extremely large area, while keeping the military's own communications systems working.
• provide a wide area earth-penetrating tomography which, if combined with the computing abilities of EMASS and Cray computers, would make it possible to verify many parts of nuclear nonproliferation and peace agreements.
• be a tool for geophysical probing to find oil, gas and mineral deposits over a large area.
• be used to detect incoming low-level planes and cruise missiles, making other technologies obsolete.

 

[Freeholdfarm]

Reading this thread made me think of something. During the twelve years I lived in our house in New Hampshire, every so often I would hear a noise -- sounded like someone had hit the side of the house with a baseball bat really hard. It was loud enough to make me jump. But I could never find any sign that anything had hit the house. That house sits right on top of a fault, in fact there was a 3.0 earthquake shortly after we moved in, and now I'm wondering if those sounds might have been coming from underground. I never found any other reasonable explanation for them.


Kathleen

P.S. I've been talking to Grandma about whether we can secure our many dozens of jars of home-canned food in some way, so they aren't destroyed if we ever have a bad earthquake here. In spite of the fact that she was IN Valdez at the time of the big Alaska Earthquake, she isn't taking me seriously! More worried about the mess it would make than losing all that food, that might not be replaceable for months, if ever!

 

[Past Tense]

Could HAARP have anything to do with this?

It may very well play a roll in this. One must remember that there are other Ionospheric heaters beside HAARP. Steve Qauyle stated there are ten more, I assume owned and operated by Russia and China. Sad, isn't it.

 

[MaxTheKnife]

Mike, how can Russia and China influence land movement here in Arkansas? That doesn't make any sense to me. Please explain.

 

[Rex Jackson]

I think the entire planet is heating up.

heating = expantion

expantion of rock = noise

Heating of Earth = noise, volcanoes, melting of the polar caps, besides that? who knows.

Why?.....the Sun, maybe... but I don't think so. I think what ever is effecting Earth is effecting the Sun, and the other planets....perhapse the speed of the rotation of our galaxy is changing. Not many people have access to that speedometer....

 

[cooter]

bump....

BTT

 

[mistaken1]

I went outside a month ago and noticed a crack in the ground behind the house. It had been raining a lot and the ground had been muddy. It finally dried up and my first thought was dry ground cracking. However it appeared rather suddenly (1-1/2" wide) and was one long reasonably straight crack (as opposed to the interconnected drying cracks). I thought it strange at the time, it happened around the time of the big 9.0 quake in indonesia.

Also have noticed a new crack forming over the front door. I will keep an eye on it to see if it suddenly grows.

I am in the nwMO/neKS area.

 

[Tweakette]

Max, the only earthquake I've ever been in sounded just like an 18 wheeler going by - it was the 5.2 that they had in Lake Placid NY about 3 years ago, which is about 60 miles from me and across Lake Champlain. It started out soft, then the rumbling got louder, then the house started to shake, then the rumbling tailed off.

When it first started I ran to the front window, pissed off because our road isn't rated for large trucks and I thought there was one going by. No truck.
Then the shaking started.

I'm thinking that it could be earth movements that are enough to make noise but not enough to be felt, or that you are sonically picking up sounds from earth movements going on in another area that are being transmitted through the granite.

Tweak

 

[dimensiondancer]

Max: Went to my cabin in Ouachita Mts. this weekend and was close to Poteau Okla. (38miles from Ft. Smith). Saturday (1/29): I heard nothing other than several large trucks drive down the highway and also several helicopters in the area.

We are on top of mountain ridge, so maybe we didn't hear much for that reason.

What tunneling???

 

[MaxTheKnife]

I didn't say something about tunneling dimensiondancer. I'm innocent, I tell ya!

 

[dimensiondancer]

I think it was Rafter:

The tunneling must be getting close to you.

I heard it a few years ago. Woke us up in the middle of the night.

Its very strange isn't it?


Max, I have heard trucks and felt rumbling before up in that direction, but we are off of 270/271 and that is a very travelled road. We too are on one of those East/West Ridges but overlook a lake to the South and Poteau to the North. Actually, we felt and heard helicopters last month and went outside to see absolutely nothing, but we still heard them.

I've often worried about the New Madrid fault line since my little place is just a wooden cabin.

 

[DuckandCover]

Well, I live very close to New Madrid, MO. I haven't heard or experienced anything out of the ordinary lately and haven't heard anybody else mention anything, either. However, I haven't been paying attention to such stuff, either.

I'll pay special attention tonight while laying in bed to see if I hear anything. Since I'm sure everybody knows I'm quite the skeptic on such matters, if I report that I heard something, you know there is *really* something ususual going on.

 

[library lady]

Speculation that a 12 EQ is pending

Hello all,

For those interested, urbansurvival.com has recently updated its daily news page with information from a Latin American website and a Russian geologist. It speculates on a near-term mega quake, in part based on the latest web bot run results.

Worth making note of, just in case.

library lady

 

[MaxTheKnife]

What are you trying to say, DuckandCover?

Do you have some inside information on whats going on where I live?

 

[DuckandCover]

What are you trying to say, DuckandCover?

Do you have some inside information on whats going on where I live?

Nope. Fraid not Max. Since some of the conversation on this thread involved the New Madrid fault, I was just offering my observances to add to the discussion, since I literally live right on the fault.

Didn't mean to sound like I actually knew anything. As my wife will tell ya, I'm pretty clueless!

 

[lisa]

Okay..about a weekand a half ago we heard here in Panama a sound at night. It lasted several seconds and we were all like,"what the heck is THAT?!" It sounded just like LeViolinist described,"It was similar to a large jet going over unaturally slow, and loud. "
We arent in any flight path...it was just weird. Haven't heard anything else for a few days now though.

 

[Tundra Gypsy]

Can anyone tie the rumblings to an earthquake? Probably not. I believe is it tunneling that is going on. When was the "first time" that anyone has experienced this strange event and posted it on this board? Is this is something that recently just started happening? Did this start happening after 9/11? There has to be a tie-in here; the government may be stepping up their efforts to go underground. I know, I know, this is conspiracy stuff. But how many people in this country are feeling these vibrations? What is in your area? Military bases, government property? Granite mountains, areas where big trucks could move soil out without being detected? See any unusual construction going on;extra cement trucks? Large covered trucks moving something?? I have. Right up the dirt road past my house. They drive up into a hilly valley and onto a supposedly "private" game preserve. Concrete trucks up and down the little dirt road along with large "covered" trucks...what do you think is going on in my neck of the woods?? I don't, but I keep watching and wondering.

 

[Telyn]

Years ago, before the internet, I read an article in Scientific American that said the limestone of the land East of the New Madrid fault carries earthquake waves much more intensively than the bedrock of the West Coast. It is one reason the New Madrid 1800s earthquake reached as far as Boston and Charleston. I haven't been able to find the reference, maybe a better searcher will have more luck. It would stand to reason that sound waves might also carry further through the Eastern US limestone.

 

[nanajo]

Have had the same type of noise happening here. Sounded like a big train or heavy equipment. We live next to farmland and forest bordering an Indian Res. I went outside and tried to figure out where it could be coming from. My closest estimation was the northwest to northeast. Also thought maybe aircraft but didn't sound right for that either. What's going on?

 

[Tempus]

I would think from what I know that animal behavior is a good thing to watch for if it is earthquake releted.

Ants swarming out of the ground, worms leaving the earth to be on the cement walks, birds flying into windows or buildings are a good start and shorter to the event the things I would watch for are the missing dogs and cats in the newpaper ads.

Also look for ball lights at night. Quite often as rock reaches its failure point, it will emit electrical energy in the form of ball type lights above the impending fracture.

Good luck and stay safe.

Tempus in Spokane

 

[sleepymarie]

Last week, tuesday morning I think, our Yorkie dashed out of the house and into the snow. THe kids were leaving for school and usually the dog runs halfway up the street and runs back. Its too cold for her to get too far this time of year.
This time she starts running madly down the street crosses over and starts running towarsd the kids school a mile away, she got one more block, by now one of the kids had run back to the house crying becasue the dog was running away and I am throwing on shoes to go get her when A neighbor passes by offers to take the kids to school and the dog runs up to the house. this all happened in a matter of five minutes.
What happened was that my neighbor saw a little dog running down the street, realised it was mine called out her name and the dog stopped, turned around and ran all the way back home. Very wierd.
She has never done that before, it was 14 degrees out, I never expected her to run off. So I made some jokes about her being like the whales that get confused and beach themselves. Now that I have read this thread I think its worth mentioning.

but no rumbling noises here. there aren't earthquakes here in NJ

 

[RC]

Reading this thread made me think of something. During the twelve years I lived in our house in New Hampshire, every so often I would hear a noise -- sounded like someone had hit the side of the house with a baseball bat really hard. It was loud enough to make me jump. But I could never find any sign that anything had hit the house. That house sits right on top of a fault, in fact there was a 3.0 earthquake shortly after we moved in, and now I'm wondering if those sounds might have been coming from underground. I never found any other reasonable explanation for them.

!

Did they happen during the winter? In Minnesota, this is relatively common. Things expand and contract, and some of them expand and contract at different rates. So if one board has moved an eighth of an inch and another one hasn't, eventually something's gotta give, and you'll hear a loud snap.

I suppose the same thing could happen during extremely hot weather, but around here, it's a winter phenomenon.

 

[Freeholdfarm]

I heard them at any time of the year, winter or summer. It wasn't a 'snap', like I said, it sounded like someone had hit the house really hard with a baseball bat.


Kathleen

I should add that being from the Interior of Alaska, and having spent twelve winters in NH, I have heard the sound of things contracting in the cold at different rates, so I know what you are talking about. This definitely wasn't that, plus sometimes I heard it in the summer.

 

[Mail Lady]

Has anyone here thought about building a hanging pendulum device, with a possible sand base below, to record any ground/plate movement? I know people on the west coast have these devices but I thought it would be interesting if someone could do it here in the midwest or east of the Mississippi. I would do it except I have kitties. They would love that new toy.

 

[vampire]

This thread's timing couldn't be better. I live on the Eastern Shore of VA and over the last few weeks my wife and I have heard/felt quite a few rumbles. Usually they have occurred between 11 and 12 at night. I went outside to try and locate the source, but like another wrote it was barely audible and did not have the sound of the typical car stereo boom system. Yesterday morning while I was getting ready for work the house shook so hard and for so long I was genuinely worried about the structural integrity. (looks new on the outside but still just an ol farm house at heart) The shaking lasted long enough for me to put down my shirt and tie, close my closet door, walk to the window and say "What the f&$K?" The windows rattled and a couple of pictures dropped but that was all. I've heard quite a few sonic booms when the navy pratices manuevers over the bay and this did not fit the profile. We have a NASA and Navy base nearby and I've watched alot of sounding rocket launches, many I can see from back yard, but this didn't fit the profile of that either. Starting to really freak me out.

 

[Tundra Gypsy]

Yikes, our ship is running aground! We can't get off because there's no place to go except into the sea. I don't like this, I don't like all this rumbling and vibration that's going on. Yikes, Mother Nature is gettin' ready to get even with us for pumping all that oil out of her and taking her coal, polluting her rivers and oceans, and messing with her whales and dolphins. I'm sorry Mom. If the wise Hopi Elder have disappeared into their underground shelters; then I'm getting my shovel out and going to start diggin' in myself. Is this the prelude to SHTF? Gulp! Nice knowing everyone....

 

[Tundra Gypsy]

Hey everyone, I just read the thread "12.0 coming? eduador Lookout! in the Unexplained Phenomena section. At the bottom area it said that residents living on the Nicobar Islands heard "groaning" from the earth and unable to sleep....oh oh. What does that mean when we're hearing the same noise in the U.S.??