NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The ground is still shaking in northern Parker and Tarrant County. A system of seismic monitors is still picking up small movements. However, it’s been more than a month since the last 3.0 earthquake in the area. The Texas Railroad Commission is still in the process of hiring a seismologist to help look into more than 30 quakes since the fall.
People have been shaking from unexpected quakes in Oklahoma, Ohio and Arkansas. When it happened north of Little Rock, however, the state took action, and the quakes there, have all but stopped.
The home Freddy Miller raised his family in, is now the home he doesn’t want to sleep in anymore.
‘I don’t,” he said. ‘I’m looking for a firm piece of ground somewhere.”
(credit: CBS 11 News)
(credit: CBS 11 News)
Miller’s home has doors that don’t shut, walls that won’t stay together, and a pool that keeps draining. It’s damage, he said was never there three years ago.
‘People in this area know what has happened,” Miller said. ‘They know especially right here close to our home what has happened.”
Miller’s home was right in the middle of a sudden swarm of earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. There were more […]