5.4 Earthquake Olney IL

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19 miles SSE of Olney, Illinois (ID 851141) APR 18 2008 04:36:57 CDT 5.4

Woke up to the bed shaking in Columbia, MO

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House shook here n Lebanon, Indiana. We are about about 15 miles nnw of Indianapolis.

[slugbug]

Woke up to bed shaking here in east central Indiana too...

[MetalHeadConservative35]

i live in detroit, we felt a small tremor about 10-15 minutes ago

[bahblahbah]

It woke me up. I live about 40 miles north of olney so I guess I was 60 miles away.

[jennyjenny]

Awake here on the NS of Indy. It seemed to last about 20 seconds or so.

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Here it is on another thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003345/posts?q=1&;page=72#72

[Always Right]

Fairly strong one. Doubt if there was much damage though.

[hoosierham]

Woke to bed shaking which seemed to last about 30 seconds,and stuff rattling on shelves.At least one item fell off shelf to floor.House here is massive foot thick native stone walls from early 1800s,will look for damage in daylight.

Power and phone were uninterrupted.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Wow! How does this happen. Olney is in that area of Illinois known as "Egypt" because the soil is so rich. The whole area over to the river at Vincennes is an alluvial plain.

Call me confused.

[Cindy]

Ping.

[kimmie7]

Woke me up in Bowling Green, KY

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Earthquake Details
Magnitude 5.4 (Preliminary magnitude — subject to revision)
Date-Time Friday, April 18, 2008 at 09:36:57 UTC
Friday, April 18, 2008 at 04:36:57 AM at epicenter

Location 38.501°N, 87.898°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region ILLINOIS
Distances 10 km (6 miles) ESE (103°) from West Salem, IL
10 km (6 miles) NE (55°) from Bone Gap, IL
13 km (8 miles) N (4°) from Bellmont, IL
39 km (24 miles) WSW (239°) from Vincennes, IN
66 km (41 miles) NNW (333°) from Evansville, IN
204 km (127 miles) E (93°) from St. Louis, MO

Location Uncertainty Error estimate not available
Parameters NST=021, Nph=021, Dmin=263.2 km, Rmss=1.07 sec, Gp=119°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=1
Source West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center/NOAA/NWS

Event ID at00851141

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FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO FELT IT... PLEASE FILL OUT A SHORT REPORT

Did You Feel It?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/dyfi/

[Keith]

hehe....filled that in within minutes...felt it here in st. lou.

[camle]

I gots in-laws out there in Olney. We often tell bad jokes about the sheep - you know the “Olney ewe”?

me wife’s brother and their families and kith and kin. we’ll have to call out there this morning to make sure everybody is ok. if anybody has any info, feel free to freepmail me.

thanx

[Proud Legions]

My wife and I felt it. We are in Fort Knox, Kentucky. It was O-dark-thirty (meaning I’m not sure of the exact time, but early this morning) and we both said, “What was that?!”

[econjack]

Man...I'm glad to know this. I live in Indy and I awoke at around 5:30AM to hear a strand of New Orleans beads rattling against the mirror on a dresser. I thought maybe I was dreaming, until I saw the beads still moving.

[BallandPowder]

Powder..patch..ball FIRE!

Shook bed and building in Hillsboro, MO...

[Hoplite]

This is exactly why I live in California.

It's only a matter of time before everything east of the San Andreas slides into the Atlantic.

= )