Wow, I know that town and have been there several times. It’s right on the way to DeKalb and Northern Illinois University from the NW Suburbs of Chicago.
I felt the one that hit Southern Illinois in the mid-to late 1980s (can’t remember the exact year). It was a little higher on the scale, but down south, not up north...
I haven’t read through the thread yet. I hope everyone is OK... Some beautiful OLD structures in that area of Illinois... A lot of farmland too though (at least a decade go there was...).
I'll bet that it's still there...that darned farmland is hard to move! (LOL)
Still a lot of farmland around here.
NFP
Great little town, isn't it? I hope the courthouse is ok. (Folks, think Everytown, U.S.A., the courthouse has a Civil War statue in front).
I didn’t feel it here (Lockport). The KY quake of 2 years (or so) ago I felt but it was a larger magnitude.
Must be all that global warming we got got this week. I’m still shoveling it.
Most of that farmland is still there, though subdivisions have encroached somewhat. From Rochelle, 18 miles West of DeKalb...
Yeah, we used to feel a little earthquake from time to time in St. Louis when I was a kid. It was weird, you’re vision would go kind of wonky and suddenly you’d realize everythign was shaking. I recall it once in my bed, and another time when I was shoveling snow. Never hard enough to knock anything off of a shelf or anything.
Course, Chicago could be about to get Haitied. The New Madrid Fault cause the big one of 1804 that changed the course of the Mississippi. A good reminder that it could happen lots of places, not just California.
Not where I am though, we’re on mud for a looooong way down.