Illinois Earthquake

[ColonelPanic]

I was getting ready to take the dogs out before I went to work this morning and the building started shaking and rocking back and forth, the windows were rattling... It was surreal, it makes you wonder when it was going to stop! This is the strongest earthquake I've felt to date (5.4 preliminary.) The epicenter was quite a ways away from where I'm at too...http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqc...8qza6/Who else felt it? So far I've read news reports of places like Milwaukee and Grand Rapids feeling the tremor... I'm interested to know who else had a rude awakening this morning. Hopefully those closer to the epicenter have no damage.edit: I'm watching a news stream out of Evansville, IN and they mention reports of it being felt in St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Knoxville, somewhere in Kansas, and even Washington DC...

[Kari]

I just watched a video from WFIE in Evansville, and it looks like we had more intense shaking here than they did, curiously enough, since they were so close. They didn't seem to be feeling anything in the studio that felt like more than a train going by, and the towercam was shaking, but the weatherman thought it was just strong winds. It was pretty obviously an earthquake here...interesting that Evansville must not have had the same intensity we did.They said on Fox this morning that part of the reason we may have felt it more intensely than other areas, even from as far away as we were, is the ground makeup being so close to the river...it's softer than bedrock and tends to move more with quakes.

[kevera]

Since I caught both of you together,what's with your avatars?Mikey has the same one also.

[Renthorin]

Ann Arbor Michigan checking in. Felt it

[VforVIBE]

Quote, originally posted by kevera »Since I caught both of you together,what's with your avatars?Mikey has the same one also.+1... sorry, gangs aren't allowed on GVC.Glad to hear everyone's ok so far

[scherry2]

felt it at 5:35 this A.M. near Ft. Wayne, Indiana

[Kari]

Just felt another tremor here in Louisville...I'm at work now and it made the metal walls rattle in our large building. 11:15 a.m.

[BlueCrush]

I read about this online this morning before work. Nothing felt here in Mpls/St.Paul. Doesn't happen too often in the midwest that it gets on the news. Hope that is all there is...

[ColonelPanic]

Yeppers, you just felt the latest one, a 4.6 not far from the original quake's epicenter at 11:14 EDT. (link.) Didn't feel anything here at where I'm at though. But a guy at work's wife called him to say she felt it too.

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[tribalman]

according to the link it was at 4.30 am.i was up, working on my computer. didn't feel a thing. i'm ~ 14 miles outta chicago too.

[ColonelPanic]

Yeah, the first (biggest) one was at 4:37 AM CDT. The other large one happened at 10:14 CDT.There were 5 others in the 2.x range not long after the first one.

[zionzr2]

for more on the event:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...quake

[Kari]

Interestingly, we felt it upstairs, but they didn't feel it downstairs. They didn't hear the walls rattle either. I saw the power lines start swinging out the window too. I guess the 4.x range from our distance could only really be felt higher up than the ground floor.

[jimincalif]

Quote, originally posted by Kari »Interestingly, we felt it upstairs, but they didn't feel it downstairs. They didn't hear the walls rattle either. I saw the power lines start swinging out the window too. I guess the 4.x range from our distance could only really be felt higher up than the ground floor.Being born and raised in California, I've had my share of earthquakes. There are all kinds of variables that will affect the motion you feel, from soil type, depth of the earthquake, distance, whether you are sitting, standing, upstairs, etc. You will definitely notice more motion on upper floors. A couple times while sitting in a firm chair on a ground floor, I've been able to feel the wave and tell generally what direction it came from. Once of the most violent shakers I ever felt was a 4.x where the epicenter was just 3 miles away and I was on the second floor of an office building. I've always been at least 50 miles away from the really big ones to hit SoCal, at that distance we usually get more of a rolling motion that will wake me up but usually not damage anything.Glad to hear no major injuries or damage.

[WaveAction]

thats crazy, i remember we had a very little earthquake like 6 years ago somewhere around here..felt like a helicopter went over my house, but glad everyones okayhere's a link from CNN covering the quakehttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/....html

[ramenboy...]

sorry i'm a bit late to the party...i was up early on the 18th, didn't feel a thing. its weird how random it was in terms of who felt it and where they were.