[topher]

Apparently, Mount Carmel did get quite a bit of shaking.

It is the most populated area (7,000 people) to feel almost the full force of the earthquake.

Here is an image from USGS of the intensity.

Mount Carmel is in the VI area -- the most violent for this earthquake.

[Just mythoughts]

Thank you for the image. My power had gone out the night before and my guess is from a lightening strike. The power company was very soon out and about to fixed the problem. However, it was pouring rain and I heard and saw their attempts down the road by loud explosive arching of electricity and the power vehicle then leaving the area. My neighbor got his generator up and ‘roaring’ which kept me from falling asleep as I had nothing to drown out that roar.

The first thing I hear when I awoke in the morning after I figured out how to ‘reset’ the cable on my tv, was a local report of people here in Kansas City area feeling an earthquake that hit at Mount Carmel, Ill.

So after doing ‘chores’ around here and getting my computer back up was to see the when this quake hit to see if there was any correlation with my power outage... No correlation but the name Mount Carmel, which I did not know was a place in Illinois, reminded me of another Mount Carmel.

I personally did not feel the quake, or the after shocks, but I heard later that MO DOT was out checking bridges on the eastern side of the state for bridge damage.

I do thank you for your updates, as I had other things I needed to get done and sometimes there is no other place to find out the details of events, except here on FR, of which I am thankful exists.