# Earthquake in Florida

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/earthquake-in-florida/200246>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [September 10, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/earthquake-in-florida/200246 "2006-09-10T16:24:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![ar1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@ar1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ar1)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/earthquake-in-florida/200246/1 "2006-09-10T16:24:01Z")

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Hey people. At around 9:56 am eastern time the middle of gulf of mexico got hit by an earthquake. The aftershocks actually reached my home, around Orlando. The earthquake measured at 5.8 on the ricter scale.