EarthQuake!!

[TheGreatSatan]

About 20 minutes ago here in Illinois, we just had an Earthquake!! I woke up about an hour ago and as it was happening I was thinking: "I know I'm tired, but the whole house is shaking not just me".

It was a magnitude of 5.4!

[Eclecticos]

Wow! Thats crazy.
I hope you and your family are okay.

[simon275]

Wow nuts. I am thankfull I live in a geologically stable area.

[BerticusPryme]

wow what part of Ill do do you live. i got family in Rockford

[Aero]

He's in southern IL if I remember. Thats odd. Illinois never get earth quakes. Hmm, I'll have to talk with my family up in Gurnee. Plus one of the guys I live with (down the dorm hall) has family in Rochester. I wonder where the epicenter was.

[TheGreatSatan]

Apparently people from Iowa to Indiana felt it!

[Airbozo]

Shake! Rattle and Roll!

I too am surprised by this. Not sure I have ever heard of a trembler in that part of the country. We get them here all the time to the point that if it is below a 5.0 no-one even bats an eye. (I live mere miles from the Loma Prieta faultline)

Glad it just woke you up and didn't hurt you.

[TheGreatSatan]

Just happened again! Less than a minute ago right here at my Desk R2-M5 started a little dance!

[Aero]

Just happened again! Less than a minute ago right here at my Desk R2-M5 started a little dance!

sweet jebus. 2 Earthquakes in 8 hours?


Apparently people from Iowa to Indiana felt it!

My mom had a meeting today with someone from the far north shore of Chicago, who felt it. Plus I think there were reports from Wisconsin too. This is f'ed up.

Friggen felt in Ontario! http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h_s7fFI31UHoYSQ1Af-ecQ9RK1IA

[halcyonforever]

WoW... that should make some interesting news..

We get earthquakes in Oklahoma alot, but they are 2 and 3's so nobody feels them, they just show up on records...

[Airbozo]

You guys are moving today...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/38.40.-89.-87_eqs.php

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/38.40.-89.-87.php

[TheGreatSatan]

I think this one was a 4 point something....Technically we've had 8 earthquakes in the past 10 hours or so, but most were very small.

[Okele]

I told my wife things with the weather and ecology were changing. She didnt believe me. And this is further proof! We dont get earthquakes in california anymore, we get tornado's now. And now illinois is getting the earthquakes. Next up Nevada will have a tidal wave and montana will get a hurricane.



And hope everyone is ok.

[Airbozo]

I told my wife things with the weather and ecology were changing. She didnt believe me. And this is further proof! We dont get earthquakes in california anymore, we get tornado's now. And now illinois is getting the earthquakes. Next up Nevada will have a tidal wave and montana will get a hurricane.



And hope everyone is ok.

uhm, we get earthquakes _daily_ in California...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/

...and that tidal wave to hit Nevada will be from California sliding into the ocean...

[chaksq]

Oh wow this is messed up, haven't noticed anything strange up here in NY other than it actually being nice out.

[Drum Thumper]

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/an-earthquake-rattles-the-midwest/?hp

Turns out that the midwest is actually quite earthquake prone. So I'm not too surprised.

Glad to hear you're ok TGS.

[Drum Thumper]

...and that tidal wave to hit Nevada will be from California sliding into the ocean...

California will go north, not slide into the ocean. You'll just have to annex Oregon, Washington, BC, and Alaska eventually. :D

[Trace]

In my 15 years, I've never experienced an earthquake in California. (That I felt)

[BigJohnson]

I live near Chicago and I didnt feel anything. But a guy I work with lives in a 25 story apartment building and it woke him up. But we didnt feel the aftershock. Though from what I hear they seem to be pretty powerful. Glad that everyone is ok.

[Airbozo]

In my 15 years, I've never experienced an earthquake in California. (That I felt)

What part of California are you in? I have felt at least one a year since living in California. Granted most of them felt like a large truck driving by, but a few of them woke me up and one in particular that happened last year sent me running outside because it lasted so long. I felt like George on that episode of Seinfeld where he throws everyone out of the way to escape a fire...

[Quakken]

I am only posting this because for a split second I though it was addressing me with an "earth" before my name.

Oh, never felt an earthquake in colorado. They probably happen sometimes but are probably small enough to not be felt.

[Airbozo]

I am only posting this because for a split second I though it was addressing me with an "earth" before my name.

Oh, never felt an earthquake in colorado. They probably happen sometimes but are probably small enough to not be felt.

I was born and raised in Colorado and never felt one there either. Now I do have a scary story about a tornado... In Westminster of all places...

Oh and if you want I think I could arrange to have your name changed to EarthQuakken... LOL!

[Airbozo]

Here is a no ****ter;

When I married my SO there was an earthquake when we moved into our first Apt. Then when we moved to Huntington Beach. Then another when we moved into a temporary Hotel. Then again when we moved into our first house in San Jose. Another when we moved into a rental house in Scotts Valley and finally there was one 2 days after we moved into our current house. Our friends and family asked us to stay put.

[Quakken]

Oh and if you want I think I could arrange to have your name changed to EarthQuakken... LOL!

Then I would be one of those "earth" people. Who wants that?

The tornadoes, although uncommon, are pretty much the worst natural disaster that really happens here. Doesn't flood much (my house is on a hill anyway). Hurricanes are out of the question. Not a huge earthquake chance. No volcanoes...

The only thing I really worry about is the constant threat of UFO/Nuclear annihilation. The UFO's would come here because of all of the centered-ness of the continent (think about it- where should our leaders be? At the center of the continent.) and the nuclear warhead thing because of NORAD being close enough.

[SgtM]

I heard reports that it was felt here in Akron, OH as well.

[Aero]

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/an-earthquake-rattles-the-midwest/?hp

Turns out that the midwest is actually quite earthquake prone. So I'm not too surprised.

Glad to hear you're ok TGS.

Yeah, I forgot about that until my dad reminded me of it. But its still unusual to get anything this powerful from it. If the fault were to produce a "big quake" there would be some issues in Chicago for sure, none of the buildings that I know of were designed to handle earthquakes.

[TheGreatSatan]

Glad to hear you're ok TGS.

I'm just happy my Computer's are

[Eclecticos]

My only question would be how are they occurring there?

When the tectonic plates are here?

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4157/techplates1lq7.gif

Is the earth breaking up? :D

[Aero]

My only question would be how are they occurring there?

When the tectonic plates are here?



Is the earth breaking up? :D

essentially yes, or it started to at one point. Its called the New Madrid Fault Line, http://www.showme.net/~fkeller/quake/

Only this fault is buried under millions of years of dirt. Its a split deep underground that didn't completely crack the tectonic plate.

[XcOM]

im in the uk, and were right in the middle of a plate, and we had an earthquake a while ago (5.something) and one in the 70's that was over 5, between now than then we have had a few minor ones that most people didn't even feel.

You might not be on a fault line, but when a plate moves, the shock can be transfured through the entire plate and appear anywhere it feels like,

[DaveW]

You guys want to hear something really fugged up?

It's sunny. Right now.

In freaking Glasgow.

That's messed up man.

-Dave

[TheGreatSatan]

Last night.............er, this morning at 1 a.m. I felt another tremor! Some scientists are worried that this is a warning of something bigger coming

[Quakken]

Oh snap.

[Computer-Geek]

Last night.............er, this morning at 1 a.m. I felt another tremor! Some scientists are worried that this is a warning of something bigger coming

Yup!

A strong aftershock shook Southern Illinois on Monday, three days after a magnitude 5.2 quake rattled the region.Geologists say the temblor just before 12:40 a.m. registered 4.5 magnitude at its epicenter about 5 miles northwest of Mount Carmel. The location is in the same area as Friday's early morning earthquake, which shook a wide area of the Midwest and caused minor damage.
The Monday morning aftershock was the 18th since Friday and the second strongest, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The strongest was a 4.6 magnitude shaker about 5 1/2 hours after the original quake Friday morning.

[halcyonforever]

So get this... there was another quake today... only a 4.2 and it didn't make news because it mostly affected farm country...