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We just felt a 4.9 earthquake from Texas!
A place called Toyah, directly south of Carlsbad, about the same distance south of the border as Carlsbad is north. Maybe 200 miles from us on a SE diagonal? Very brief duration, just a couple of seconds.
Now, the funny thing is we had literally just completed filling in the word Tremor in a crossword puzzle! I thought Russet was shaking the couch as a joke, but nope, it was real! I could see the TV vibrate as it doesn't have a very good stand. The dogs didn't react, they're lying on the couch next to where we were sitting. Nothing fell and we didn't hear any breakage.
Keep in mind that we're literally on top of a mountain at 8,800'! (2,682 meters) There's lots of fracking on the eastern half of the state, also in that part of Texas, part of the Permian Basin which is a major oil production area.
Now, the funny thing is we had literally just completed filling in the word Tremor in a crossword puzzle! I thought Russet was shaking the couch as a joke, but nope, it was real! I could see the TV vibrate as it doesn't have a very good stand. The dogs didn't react, they're lying on the couch next to where we were sitting. Nothing fell and we didn't hear any breakage.
Keep in mind that we're literally on top of a mountain at 8,800'! (2,682 meters) There's lots of fracking on the eastern half of the state, also in that part of Texas, part of the Permian Basin which is a major oil production area.
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I don't know if fracking quakes are different than other types of seismic disturbances. Maybe they don't have the build-up that a fault slip does.