OK, so we live in Paradise and we can manage the hurricanes. Since when do we have earthquakes in the Gulf?
Below is an excerpt for the Pensacola News Journal 9/11/2006
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake ripped through the sea floor under the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday morning, while Pensacola residents relaxed in their usual weekend ways. Even though the earthquake was not strong enough to cause a tsunami, the center received 3,630 reports about it by 5 p.m. Sunday. Eleven reports came from Pensacola.
Emergency officials in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties received no reports of earthquake-related injuries or damage. "We didn't feel anything unusual," said Dave Greenwood, Pensacola Beach water safety supervisor. "I found out about it from the (Escambia County) Sheriff's Office, and I thought the guy was pulling my leg."
Navarre Beach Executive Director Roger Blaylock was astonished as well. "Earthquakes can happen anywhere, in any ocean, I know," he said. "But I've never heard of one here in the Gulf of Mexico." - PNJ
Hopefully this will just be "as we say in the stats world - an outlier". So far our weather pattern for hurricanes in our region as been very good to us this year. We have been advised that if we could get through August the jet stream would help us out. We are all keeping our fingers and toes crossed.
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