Posted on 04/18/2008 2:45:28 AM PDT by dinoparty
Decatur, Illinois
My wife and I just felt a very noticeable earthquake.
sic ubi semper ubi?
Slight correction -- more off the southern Oregon coast. Could have just as easily been off WA, however.
I lived in Southern California for 18 years and I can attest that our dog sensed earthquakes before we did. They sense the ULF (Ultra Low Frequencies) generated by the earth about minutes before an eartquake starts.
The second quake at 10:14 central time has been upgraded slightly to a 4.6
(10:14am) 4.6
2008/04/18 15:14:16 38.483 -87.891 10.0
10 km ( 6 mi) ENE of Bone Gap, IL
(6:55am) 2.6
2008/04/18 11:55:57 38.465 -87.854 10.0
9 km ( 6 mi) NW of Mount Carmel, IL
(5:46am) 2.2
2008/04/18 10:46:24 38.440 -87.880 17.8
7 km ( 4 mi) NNE of Bellmont, IL
(5:36am) 2.4
2008/04/18 10:36:33 38.460 -87.860 17.8
9 km ( 6 mi) NNE of Bellmont, IL
(5:15am) 2.5
2008/04/18 10:15:35 38.648 -88.222 10.0
6 km ( 3 mi) S of Noble, IL
(5:03am) 2.5
2008/04/18 10:03:59 38.453 -87.805 10.0
5 km ( 3 mi) NW of Mount Carmel, IL
(4:37am) 5.2 2008/04/18 09:37:00 38.450 -87.890 11.6 7 km ( 5 mi) NNE of Bellmont, IL
Not yet.. But I'm still waiting for the Global Warm..errr.. Climate Change causes earthquakes hysteria....
Should be any minute now.... maybe CNN or Fox can break it first...
Due to the harder, colder, drier and less fractured nature of the rocks in the earth’s crust in the central United States, earthquakes in this region shake and damage an area approximately 20 times larger than earthquakes in California and most other active seismic areas. Even though large earthquakes occur much less frequently in the NMSZ than in California, the long term average quake threat, in terms of square miles affected per century, is about the same because of the approximately 20 times larger area affected in the central United States.
City people! LOL!!
OTHS Class of ‘72
I checked in with my mom and brother who still live in the area. Brother in Catlin felt both quakes but dear Mom says she didn’t feel a thing out in Fithian : ) But then again Mom sleeps on a waterbed and was out driving when the aftershock hit, so it’s no wonder she didn’t feel it.
I remember one back in the late 60’s or early 70’s that really rattled the windows.
Semper ubi sub ubi ubique!
I love this website.
You will be glad to know that the cow theory has been ruled out, due to their scarcity in the area.
At dinner, the beef was Rare.
I sure hope that's not a sign that the fault is waking up.
Thank you! I know I had it wrong; but as usual, didn’t stop me....
It woke me up! I wasn’t sure that I hadn’t dreamed it until I heard the news reports later! LOL! My son didn’t feel it but about 5 minutes after I asked him we both felt the little aftershock. Did the Mississippi change course? ;)
My thoughts exactly. If they get another big one in the Mississippi Valley, and the river changes its course again, I wonder which direction it would take??
OTHS...Oakwood Township?
The Kos Kids say this earthquake happened on the Bush’s fault.
:P
The worst series of earthquakes in US history occurred in New Madrid, MO in 1811.
They’re projected to have been in the 9.o-9.1 range. The flow of the Mississippi River was reversed for a time and the channel was changed. Geysers of sand shot hundreds of feet into the air from huge holes that opened up in the ground.
Churchbells rang and windows cracked in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo from the shock.
If one were to hit the Midwest region there today of such a magnitude, St Louis, Memphis, and Louisville would be destroyed. And you know Midwestern cities do not have the architectural and structural engineering earthquake resistance that West Coast buildings must have.
San Francisco in 1906 and Anchorage in 1964 would pale in comparison.
That part of Indiana is on the northern edge of the New Madrid fault system.
If this was ever believed, it was a long, long time ago.
The latest scholarship puts the biggest of the New Madrid 1811-1812 earthquakes no larger than magnitude 7.5.
Thanks for the link.
East.
Washington sucks everything in like a black hole...
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