Archive for April 20, 2010
Earthquake in Maryville—you just never know
Yes, we had an earthquake in Maryville,TN this morning about 5:30 am. It was a 3.3 and it was loud and shook the house. At first, I thought thunderstorm, but, it really didn’t sound like thunder. I said, “Well it was either a thunderstorm or an earthquake.” Turned on the news about 7:00 am and sure enough it was an earthquake. I have wondered all day how close my house was to the center of the earthquake. I found out, pretty darn close! I got the coordinates of the quake and the coordinates of my house. They were close and so I found a reverse Geocoder and plugged in the numbers. So how close were you? I won’t tell you the address because that would take all of the fun out of the search.
The Lat. of the quake was 35.731904 degrees (no, I couldn’t find the symbol)
The Longitude was -83.971218 degrees
Reverse GeoCoder http://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com/find-address-from-latitude-and-longitude.php
Finding Latitude and Longitude of your address: http://geocoder.us/
Have fun with it and let me know how close you were. Let me know when I should tell you how close I was.