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Earthquake rattles midwest - The Horrible Esthete - 04-18-2008
The baseboard heaters in my house rattled for a few minutes, waking us. Anyone else feel or hear it?
Early morning earthquake ripples through the middle of the country
An earthquake shook a large area in the Midwest at 4:37 a.m. CT, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Seismologists say the epicenter of this magnitude 5.2 temblor was in southern Illinois, about 66 miles from Evansville, Ind.
As of right now, there are no reports of serious injuries or damage.
"It shook our house where it woke me up," David Behm of Philo, 10 miles south of Champaign, tells the Associated Press. "Windows were rattling, and you could hear it. The house was shaking inches. For people in central Illinois, this is a big deal. It's not like California."
Tremors were felt hundreds of miles away. We found reports from people who felt the quake in Kansas City, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Madison, Wis., Des Moines and near Atlanta.
Gary Patterson, a geologist at the University of Memphis, tells the Evansville Courier-Press that this is the first quake in that area since 1968. He explains why it was felt so far away: "Obviously, it depends on what the soil is where you're at, and what type of building you're in. A person jogging down the street in Kansas City didn't feel this, but a person in a 20-story building there would have felt it."
Re: Earthquake rattles midwest - sullivand - 04-18-2008
Wow. My wife felt it. She didn't know what it was till I menioned this posting to her. She'd just woken up randomly about 4:30 a.m., and she says as she was trying to get back to sleep she felt the bed shaking. She doesn't think it would have woken her up from a sound sleep, and I certainly slept through it. Crazy stuff.
Re: Earthquake rattles midwest - The Horrible Esthete - 04-18-2008
It also coaxed a chorus from the 800 dogs who live in the neighborhood.... :roll:
Re: Earthquake rattles midwest - NegPhil - 04-18-2008
It's weird you guys got a quake. Today is the 102 year anniversary of the great San Francisco quake of 1906. (That's nineteen aught-six in old timey prospector dialect.) I've been expecting a shaker here in the Pacific North West. Scientists at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center have recorded more than 600 earthquakes in the last 10 days off the central Oregon coast.