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Author Topic: I felt the earth move, under my feet.  (Read 2983 times)

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I felt the earth move, under my feet.
« on: April 18, 2008, 07:00:20 AM »
Did anyone else feel the effects of the quake in Illinois this morning at 5:37 EDT?

I was drinking coffee in the kitchen when I thought the washing machine was out of balance.  Then realized it wasn't turned on.  Only about 5 to 10 seconds was all I felt in Louisville KY.

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Re: I felt the earth move, under my feet.
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2008, 07:26:22 AM »
I felt nothing in the foothills of NC.  :-)

> useless trivia warning <

They said it was a 5.4, same magnitude as the one that struck in 1968.
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Re: I felt the earth move, under my feet.
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2008, 07:51:43 AM »
I felt it in Indiana.
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Re: I felt the earth move, under my feet.
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2008, 08:14:43 AM »
I felt a rumble as I was reading this in New York - but then realized it was the Pope and his Pope Mobile, along with throngs of gay men er. . . priests walking behind him.  So I guess it wasn't an earth quake, just a quack.* 





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Re: I felt the earth move, under my feet.
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2008, 09:13:56 AM »
That was me givin' it to Mrs. Sixpack.
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Re: I felt the earth move, under my feet.
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2008, 10:59:58 AM »
They have since downgraded it to a 5.2.  Along with moving the epicenter.  I don't quite understand how that happens but they did.

Here the only damage I heard about this morning was one new building in the old part of downtown had the brick facade fall off to where they had to block the street off.  Along with a water main break which they weren't sure if it was related or not.

For weeks now everyone will be anticipating the after shocks.
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Re: I felt the earth move, under my feet.
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2008, 11:07:40 AM »
Earthquakes are something I have never experienced in my lifetime. Perhaps because I live in Kansas. Or maybe because they happen at 5:30 in the morning and tornadoes a block away overturning my neighbor's cars can't even wake me up.
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Re: I felt the earth move, under my feet.
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2008, 11:20:47 AM »
Actually by going http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/37.39.-89.-87.php here there have been seven in Illinois this morning.

I only felt the one.
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Re: I felt the earth move, under my feet.
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2008, 07:38:09 AM »
On aftershocks:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351771,00.html

Kinda sounds like "We really don't know, but beware anyway," like there was an anti-earthquake device you could set up in your yard.
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Re: I felt the earth move, under my feet.
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2008, 09:41:23 AM »
You reside in Illinois? I live in near the Chicago area, I heard that the earthquake spanned for 900 miles and that it was felt up to Michigan but I didn't feel a single thing.
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Re: I felt the earth move, under my feet.
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2008, 07:18:35 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Fault

It is a pretty good fault line.  I'm glad it's on the western end of this state.  There is a link at the start of that Wiki page for the Friday quakes.

In 1811 or 1812 it rang bells in Boston.

It was funny/scary Friday morning.  Within a minute of the occurance here my, son was calling me from Owensboro about a hundred miles from here and about 60 from the epicenter wanting to know if we felt anything.  Those shock waves do travel quicikly through the bedrock around here.
« Last Edit: April 19, 2008, 07:23:02 PM by dcrog »
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