Anyone in Illinois (Chicago Suburbs) Just feel that? *Confirmed* Magnitude 4.5 Earthquake

[Savarak]

wow, interesting stuff to be affected by an earthquake in northern illinois... who would've thought....

 

[Evadman]

If you live in the area, and felt it (or not) fill out a report on their site. The map is kinda cool. linky

I am sure the data would be helpful for them since there hasen't been a good earthquake in IL for a while.

 

[MaxDSP]

im near ohare, but didnt feel anything

 

[notfred]

4.5 = teh small

 

[DrumminBoy]

Originally posted by: Evadman
If you live in the area, and felt it (or not) fill out a report on their site. The map is kinda cool. linky

I am sure the data would be helpful for them since there hasen't been a good earthquake in IL for a while.

I just filled one out...only one from my area

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: notfred
4.5 = teh small

We don't live in CA or AK you know. There are not supposed to be earthquakes in Illinois. Well, unless they are 9.0+'s and move the Mississippi river a few miles away.

 

[zephyrprime]

Oh great. Next thing you know, yellowstone is going to erupt.

 

[LongCoolMother]

theres a reason why they call us shakin' cali . shakin' it up in here.

 

[MustangSVT]

Originally posted by: Jehovah

Originally posted by: Amused
I'm in central IL (Springfield) and I didn;t feel anything.

I'm in Bloomington and I felt something . . ..

u sure it was the "earthquake"?

 

[MDE]

I felt something at about that time but it may have been this crashing through the window and a mortar shell blasting off on the sidewalk in front of my house.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: MDE
I felt something at about that time but it may have been this crashing through the window and a mortar shell blasting off on the sidewalk in front of my house.

?????

:Q

 

[Twista]

Didnt feel a thing here. Heard about it on fox news.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: MDE
I felt something at about that time but it may have been this crashing through the window and a mortar shell blasting off on the sidewalk in front of my house.

?????

:Q

Long story worthy of its own rant thread...

 

[Dulanic]

Kinda odd, wondered what that was last night..... That same area has had 2 earthquakes about the same size in the past 150 years or so... it's rare, but it does happen.

 

[SKORPI0]

Magnitude 4.5 - ILLINOIS 2004 June 28 06:10:51 UTC :shocked:

I though I was imagining things.

 

[The Stigenator]

Originally posted by: notfred
4.5 = teh small

4.5 in CA is small, 4.5 in other parts of the US is BIG, especially if the building codes arent set to consider earthquakes.

4.5 is enough to cumble a badly designed concrete house, or even a good one.

I would say its a good size quake in that region, probably the largest in the last 60-100 years. I am guessing here on that time.

 

[djheater]

It woke me up, I wasn't sure WTF it was and couldn't go back to sleep. I checked all the doors and crap, I was freaking out....

Finally I just came into work.... bleh....

Stupid geological forces.

 

[waggy]

hmm i just thought it was because i was drinking.

 

normally i'd be awake at 1:10am, but i took sleeping pills last night
in Rockford btw, a couple hours north

 

[jemcam]

I felt it in Bloomington, it woke me up and I was wondering wtf it was. I figured that is what is was. It wasn't the shaking that woke me up, it was stuff rattling in the house.

 

[fitzhue]

http://www.nbc5.com/news/3467627/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2265994&dppid=65192

 

[johnjohn320]

I didn't feel it, but I was in the basement. People upstairs in my house started shouting, apparently it was felt around here. (St. Charles, IL, 40ish miles west of chicago)