Bob McCarty Writes

It’s been another record-setting year at Bob McCarty Writes.  Three days shy of the new year, this blog has logged more than 1.9 million page views and attracted nearly 500,000 unique visitors. Much of this blog’s success is due to the popularity of 25 most-viewed posts published on this blog during 2008.  The headlines and [...]

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The 5.2-magnitude earthquake that struck a northern portion of the New Madrid Seismic Zone Friday put cracks in a purported theory that the fault zone is “cold and dying,” according to the experts at the Institute for Business & Home Safety. While the earthquake, centered five miles northeast of Bellmont, Ill., did not result in [...]

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After being awakened by a rare Midwest earthquake at 4:37 a.m. Central this morning and blogging about it all morning, I decided there’s enough interest in the 5.2 tremblor that a t-shirt was in order; hence, the “I SURVIVED THE GREAT QUAKE OF ’08″ t-shirt is now available in several varieties. To get yours, click [...]

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Is this ironic or what? On the same day as people in the Midwest experienced a rare 5.4 earthquake (see links below for details), the lead story on the “This Day in History” RSS feed from History.com is about an earth -shaker that took place in 1906: The Great San Francisco Earthquake At 5:13 a.m., [...]

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A U.S. Geological Survey map (below) shows the epicenter of the earthquake that awakened people as far away as St. Louis at approximately 4:40 a.m. this morning was located at or near Olney, Ill. UPDATE 4-18-08 7:27 a.m. Central: Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey have updated the information about the earthquake, estimating it measured [...]

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I was right. In my post earlier, I estimated the earthquake that awakened me this morning was at least a 3.5 to 4.0 on the Richter Scale. News accounts at 5 a.m. confirmed it, saying that a preliminary 5.4 measurement is being given to the tremblor that was centered approximately 120 miles east of St. [...]

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I lived in Japan for more than three years and know an earthquake when I feel it. At approximately 4.40 a.m. Central, this St. Louis-area blogger was awakened by an earthquake. My guess — and I haven’t seen any news reports about it yet — is that it was a 3.5 to 4.0 on the [...]

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