As Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's movie, San Andreas, approaches the big screen to place California's fears of "The Big One" once again into cinematic wonder portraying the destruction of West Coast cities, a place not used to quakes, Texas, just got rattled by a "not so big one" that was big enough to jar people into a position of taking notice. A 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck an area near Venus, Texas, just south of Dallas-Fort Worth and Arlington, a shallow trembler that is being blamed for foundation damage in at least two homes. The earthquake struck last night, May 7, 2015, at 5:58 pm, and is considered the largest quake to hit north Texas, and one of the largest to hit Texas in general in quite a while.
California deals with quakes of this size often, and residents have been preparing during my entire lifetime for the "big one," which is expected to be a 7.0, or larger. Meanwhile, in Texas, the largest earthquake on record hit the State in 1931, at 5.8. A 5.7 magnitude quake shook Alpine in 1995.
The earthquake, however, adds insult to injury, as Texas is under Tornado watch and a flash flood warning, and works to recover from an episode of Islamic terror when Muslim gunmen were killed trying to disrupt a "Draw Muhammad" contest in Garland, Texas, a suburb northeast of Dallas.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
4.0 magnitude quake in Venus, south of Tarrant County, rattles much of North Texas - Dallas Morning News
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