News of actual North Texas earthquakes make this morning’s metro shift far less boring

by PegNews wire

Having just written up a blurb about Fred Baron passing away and then discovering that someone else on staff had beaten me to it, I scrambled around looking for another story worth posting and discovered that the earth actually moved here overnight.

The U.S. Geological Survey (and we don't hear from them very much here in North Texas) reports that two minor earthquakes shook DFW, the first (measuring a hearty 2.5 on the Richter Scale) at 11:25 p.m. on Thursday (Oct. 30) and the second (measuring 3.0) occurring at 12:01 a.m. this morning (Oct. 31).

Both quakes were centered in the mid-cities, the first in Grand Prairie and the second in Irving. And I slept right through it.

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Alex Bentley, says:

See what happens when I leave town for a few days?

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Travis Bush, says:

I bet this is the best day in geology class EVAR...

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Clay213, says:

I always suspected DFW Airport was located above the Hellmouth.

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alexander troup, says:

Swiss chesses is the kind of hole in the hill formation when you dig for gas, while the folks from California are moving in the state, bringing in their fault lines, maybe....than again, the Grand Priaries are under water in 50 years, A.T..Geologist in the Science fiction..