# TennDopers:  Did you feel a tremor?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tenndopers-did-you-feel-a-tremor/323557
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 26, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tenndopers-did-you-feel-a-tremor/323557 "2005-09-26T21:02:48Z")
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### Author: ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tenndopers-did-you-feel-a-tremor/323557/1 "2005-09-26T21:02:48Z")

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Seriously, did any Nashville/middle Tennessee Dopers feel a tremor at about 1:50am last night? I’ve checked the U.S. Geo Survey’s website and the closest tremor I could find happened yesterday afternoon in the very southeastern tip of Missouri. It was a one-pointer.

All I know is that I woke up from a dead sleep and my bed was rocking side to side. I live in a very quiet neighborhood where the only real noise at 2 o’clock in the morning is from airplanes coming and going at Nashville’s airport. They don’t shake my bed, though.

It definitely wasn’t a dream because I got up and had some water. Anybody else? Anybody?

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### Author: ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tenndopers-did-you-feel-a-tremor/323557/2 "2005-09-26T21:12:58Z")

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Amazingly I was asleep before 2 last night. But I didn’t wake up from my sleep to feel anything.

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### Author: ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tenndopers-did-you-feel-a-tremor/323557/3 "2005-09-26T21:15:01Z")

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Do you think maybe it was from the New Madrid fault? They keep saying we’re going to get ‘the big one’ ™ at some point…

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### Author: ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tenndopers-did-you-feel-a-tremor/323557/4 "2005-09-26T21:24:19Z")

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[Last quake information for Tennessee](http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/states/tennessee/last_event.html) - I love this website.

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### Author: ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tenndopers-did-you-feel-a-tremor/323557/5 "2005-09-26T22:23:04Z")

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There were Tornado warnings last night in Williamson county. Maybe wind shear?

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### Author: ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tenndopers-did-you-feel-a-tremor/323557/6 "2005-09-26T22:31:02Z")

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Oooh, fun site, **DeVena**. A little more searching found [this activity](http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/nmhwb0926a.htm) within the last day, just over the border in Missouri. A measly 1.5, so no way this is what **Hung Mung** felt. According to that site, that’s the _only_ activity east of Utah within the last day.