Where in Alabama did the recent earthquake occur?
The 2003 Alabama earthquake took place on Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 3:59 A.M. Central Daylight Time (local time when the event occurred) eight miles (13 km) east-northeast of Fort Payne, Alabama Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
The town of Rockford got a little rocked early Tuesday morning, and Ruby Self felt every bit of it while lying in bed, all 5 seconds of a rumble she knew could not have come from an airliner. “I was in bed and the floor and windows rattled. It was a sound I had not heard before,” said Self. Hundreds of others heard and felt the same thing but more than a few slept right through it including Self’s daughter and 6-year old granddaughter. “Mom asked me if I had heard the quake this morning and i said ‘noooo,’ said Tina Fuller. “I think God is just letting us know He’s still in control,” Fuller surmises. No damage in Rockford. The funny thing is Ruby Self and her granddaughter, Savannah, were just talking about earthquakes two days ago. “She’s in kindergarten and we were looking at a National Geographic program and she asked, ‘Granny, earthquakes don’t happen here, do they?’ and I said, ‘no we’re not in the part of the country where an earthquake hits,’ Self said at the time. The earthquak
On Tuesday morning, a 3.8-magnitude earthquake occurred several miles north of Centreville, Alabama in Bibb County, southeast of the city of Tuscaloosa. Sources: WSFA news at http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=10224132&nav=0RdF and http://www.wtok.com/news/headlines/43335277.html.
