Illinois gets a rare earthquake.

[nick1985]

This happened right where I work. Its all everyone is talking about today (obv). Some of the older women are being overly dramatic about it, acting like they survived some big disaster.

 

[Lotheron]

when did the off topic start directing to P&N?

It happens about 30% of the time. It just happened to be this thread.

 

[BillGates]

I read an article about this and police near the epicenter said they received hundreds of calls -- why the F do people feel the need to call the police when there is an earthquake when they are not in danger, injured or in any other sort of emergency situation? MORANS

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

LMFAO 4.3 r u srs? How do you even feel that?

 

[FelixDeCat]

2010 Earthquakes

Haiti
Illinois

California?

 

[Brainonska511]

4.3? I felt nothing, though I'm in Chicago. I live 200ft from some heavy freight/commuter tracks. Some of those freight trains shake my apartment more than a 4.3 earthquake ever would.

Overall though, it's not surprising to see a quake every now and then in the region, considering the nearby New Madrid fault line.

 

[five40]

I live in IL but didn't feel it. And all the stupid west coast morons going LMFAO OMG....we have to listen to all your "OMG 1 INCH OF SNOW" threads, so shut up already.

 

[CRXican]

USGS say it was a 3.8. Buch of pansies.

 

[TheNoblePlatypus]

LMFAO 4.3 r u srs? How do you even feel that?

Shaking homes are the first sign. Homes don't shake around here.

USGS say it was a 3.8. Buch of pansies.

That's the refined number, at 5AM they were saying 4.3. Los Angeles actually celebrates a pit filled with tar, so allow us a little geological excitement.

Wow. I didn't feel a thing, and I live right next to Algonquin.

I'm sure how your house is constructed and where it is has a lot to do with it.

 

[secretanchitman]

i was up and felt it. didnt last more than a few seconds though. i remember another earthquake happening like in 2004 in the summertime at like 2-3am. no one knew about/believed it though except for my classmate and i.

 

[Evadman]

It is now a 3.8 according to the usgs. I live a few miles away, and felt nothing. The 4.5 we got a few years ago shook my house slightly though, like someone was moving around on the roof.

One of my work friends had his basement floor crack from 1 side to the other. He said it is about 1/4" wide now.

 

[fitzhue]

Something to keep in mind:

Amy Vaughn, of the USGS, said they were getting reports from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa of people having felt the quake. Vaughn said the sediments are less packed in the land east of the Rockies. She said they are softer and less concrete than they are in the west and earthquake waves travel further through looser sediment.

"A 4.3 in California would be felt probably about ten times less than it would be felt in the east, so that's why we're getting reports from a wide area within the eastern United States region," Vaughn said.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=7268309

 

[BurnItDwn]

Sweet, I survived an Earthquake and a Blizzard within the same 24 hour period ! And my only real complaints are that my back hurts a bit from shoveling so much, and the extra 10 minutes added to my 20 mile commute kinda sucks....

(slept through the quake)

 

[fleshconsumed]

I'm in Naperville and it woke me up this morning right about 4am. Only lasted 5-8 seconds, but it was strong enough to shake the walls.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Actually there have been some major inland earthquakes along faults that are nowhere near plate boundaries. I think there was a huge one near Kansas a hundred years ago or more.

There's a large fault right near the Mississippi. One happened along it back in the 1800s that was supposedly strong enough to ring bells in Boston.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone

Wow, I didn't know that them strengthening Tuttle Creek Dam was a $150 million dollar project.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/may/02/shaking_kansas/