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Really?

I gotta get some peanut butter

Yes. We sometimes use the Cape Horn turnoff to access Deadwood Res. Stanley must have gotten a pretty good shake.

I told my wife it was the wind lol. Eventually I looked out the window and the trees weren't moving and oooohh [bleep]

I'm not talking about finger nippers. I'm talkin about pullin bear hair. Same reason weiner dogs ain't used on hogs.

Them lap dogs are fun and all; but when it gets real, ya need a dog.

Between the A and the T

Very strong here in Florence shook my house pretty good. Walls looked like waves of paper.

For anyone interested, this is a good link to all earthquake activity worldwide! Date, time, and magnitude. It’s pretty interesting to see how active some areas are! memtb

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/

I am about 40 air miles from the epicenter of todays quake I was in the basement and the floor felt as though it was rippling there was a bit of wall movement and a lamp swayed some, a quick inventory did not show any apparent structure damage but I will take a better look tomorrow.

For anyone who may be familiar with the area it appears that the epicenter was in the Cape Horn area, my best guess would be somewhere near Sheep Mountain there is not a lot around there to be damaged unless it caused some landslides or slid in some backcountry roads which are not open this time of year anyway. That area is about 10 air miles west of Stanley and perhaps 5 miles north.

drover

Wondering, any fracking in that area? Aren't earthquakes kind of rare in Idaho?

No fracking. Oil has never been found in Idaho. It's just a natural phenomenon.

This is Highway 21 near Lowman. The only damage I've seen reported is stuff like this, no buildings.

We either didn't feel it down here in Ogden or I slept through it - which is likely.

No oil in Idaho. If you drilled there, you'd hit lava. And that's no joke.

The news says it was felt in Salt Lake. Another thread here said they felt it in Calgary. This this was wide spread.

Southern Idaho is very volcanic. The lava beds cover 1000's of square miles and go deep. They figure that the hot spot that's under Yellowstone was under so. Idaho before the No. American tectonic plate moved west. What would happen if you got a bazillion gallons of raw oil up to volcano hot?

I can recall twice in my life being awakened by earthquakes that were slamming me into the wall that the bed was up against, once in the Philippines around 1970 and once in Northern New York, up on the Canadian Border, in the early '80's, probably '81 or '82.

I'm in Twin Falls, 100 miles south. Similar experience for me. In the basement loading shells, felt like someone was shaking my chair back and forth, concrete floor felt like it waved. Looked up and the walls and shelves were moving. Went up stairs and the chandelier was really moving, wife was freaked out. Pretty crazy. Niece in Pocatello said they felt it, Daughter in Boise and Aunt in Sandpoint all were on Facebook talking about it within minutes. Saw where it was estimated to be about a 5 by the time it got down here. Pretty serious shake.

I remember the Borah quake in 1983 also. This one felt very similar, chandelier swaying, walls and floor shaking. That one was in the morning though. Pretty spooky.