re: Does Louisiana get little earthquakes?

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There's actually a fault that runs right underneath Catholic High

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but it's not the church's fault

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Baton Rouge had an earthquake in 2010

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1988 too!

LC

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I LOL'd.

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There's actually a fault that runs right underneath Catholic High

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I thought it was the old Woodlawn high?

it is possible. i know the Pontchartrain has small faults in it, which is why the ground sank and it became a lake.

i live in kenner

Several years ago I visited the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) out in Livingston Parish. See LIGO to better understand the research.

When I visited their control room, one of the monitors that is used to detect changes in the laser had been shut off for a short period of time before I arrived. They explained that they have to shut off the monitor when there are earthquakes.

That took the visitors by surprise due to the fact, as Louisianians, we never feel earthquakes. They elaborated further that LA experiences hundreds to a thousand quakes a year, typically daily, but that we never feel them because of our soft soil. Most are small and virtually imperceptible to us because of our soil conditions. However, their laser monitors easily pick them up.

Thus, the simple answer to the question is yes, but we don't feel them.

Experienced my first earthquake last night I was yelling at my wife like a little bitch had not one clue what to do. I was all maybe we should get in a doorway. It felt like the longest minute of my life feeling my apartment building sway back and forth and shite falling off the walls and counter tops. It really felt like the building was going to collapse.