Post by B on Feb 29, 2008 13:12:51 GMT -5
No. I was eleven, but I know about that. It was something like a one or two on the Richter scale.
The Lehigh Valley is Allentown/Bethlehem area, and they're on a different geological structure
than we are. Of course, in Wilkes-Barre we were undermined for coal 'til 1959, when some twit
dug too close to the river, and flooded the mines, so now all the towns in the valley float on the
Susquehanna River. Hope we don't have any prolonged droughts!
earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/pennsylvania/history.php
"A local disturbanceprobably caused by subsidence of an underground coal mine caused damage estimated at $1 million in a five-block residential area of Wilkes-Barre on February 21, 1954. Occupants fled into the street. Hundreds of homes were damaged, ceilings and cellar walls split and backyard fences fell over. Sidewalks were pushed sharply upward by a heaving motion and then collapsed. Gas and water mains snapped; methane gas rising from cracks in the earth presented a temporary emergency. Two days later (February 23), a second disturbance was reported from the same section of Wilkes-Barre. More cracks appeared in ceilings and walls of apartment buildings. Curbs pulled away from sidewalks, and street pavements buckled. Additional water and gas mains were broken."
But back then they'd undermine a neighborhood, and then prop it up with wooden pillars!
Now that we're all floating on water we don't have this sort of thing occuring so much anymore.
And yes, I do live in that part of town, but do I worry?
I mean, just because my house faces a new direction every year, and my back yard has weird bumps
and dips that come and go, am I concerned? Nah, not me! De Nile is a river in Egypt; not Wilkes-Barre! ;D
The Lehigh Valley is Allentown/Bethlehem area, and they're on a different geological structure
than we are. Of course, in Wilkes-Barre we were undermined for coal 'til 1959, when some twit
dug too close to the river, and flooded the mines, so now all the towns in the valley float on the
Susquehanna River. Hope we don't have any prolonged droughts!
earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/pennsylvania/history.php
"A local disturbance
But back then they'd undermine a neighborhood, and then prop it up with wooden pillars!
Now that we're all floating on water we don't have this sort of thing occuring so much anymore.
And yes, I do live in that part of town, but do I worry?
I mean, just because my house faces a new direction every year, and my back yard has weird bumps
and dips that come and go, am I concerned? Nah, not me! De Nile is a river in Egypt; not Wilkes-Barre! ;D