Earthquake In Illinois!
 

I just heard on the news that So IL had an earthquake that measured a 5.2. How wild is that? I did not feel it in TH though, but people just a little south of me felt it. My meds must've really worked well last night! :D

Uh, DM, my local news said that it was a false alarm, that some broad in TH had gas last night.

No~No~ No AMN~ That was the night before on *chili* night. Get your facts straight! Geez!

Just talked to DS and he felt his apmt shake. We have tornadoes, floods, droughts etc in IL, but not earthquakes!!!

LOL, we posted threads at the same time. :)

I'm hoping all our midwest board buddies check in today. We felt a small shake here in central ohio from the Illinois quake.

This is the fifth time in my life I felt a small quake. 2 in NY and three times now in Ohio.

Hi Finn~ Well, it was raining and storming when I went to bed. Even Louisville, KY had damage from it. It was the strongest ever in that area of IL.

I am going to DS's today, so will talk to the people at my DS's business to see what they felt.

DM, reporting from Toad Hollow. Over and out,

Oh DM - I just read it on the news!! Wow - we have them here in Maine every once and a while too....

I POSTED ON THE OTHER THREAD TOO...
I AM TRING TO CATCH SOME DETAILS ABOUT THIS.....

Did it go down into the St Louis area? I have family all over that area up there....

Not to worry, Kay~ The Today Show said St Louis didn't have any major damage. They felt it where my DH works too. *nuke plant*

YYYIIKKKEESSSS DM......... skeeeerrryyyy.........


(thanks MA I can fall back outta panic mode now)

It knocked me out of bed.....:eek:

But, but, you live in AZ!;)

What time was the earthquake? I read somewhere it was at 4:07am, but they didnt say if it was Central or Eastern time.

I woke up several times last night, so I'm wondering if the quake is responsible for the wake up call sometime around 4am. (I was also awake at 5am and 6am...stupid insomnia)

Oh, and that part of the country has had earthquakes before. Big ones, back in the early 1800's. From the New Madrid fault. It's been close to 200 years since there was a "big one" on the New Madrid fault, so we're kind of due to have a big one eventually. Today's was a moderate quake.

I live right on top of a fault line here in Nebraska. The Humboldt Fault. We had an earthquake in the early to mid-90s that knocked my videotapes down in my room. (I had somewhere around three or four hundred videotapes stacked on every flat surface in my room then. They looked like dominoes)

Back in 1989, I felt that big earthquake they had then in California...I was in McDonalds, sitting on a bench that was attached to the wall. Right at the time the quake hit in CA and felt the whole building "wiggle". Went on for 15 or 30 seconds...and I was in Nebraska. So I'm always amazed when I can feel the ground wiggle a bit from a quake that's not centered anywhere near me.

I just dont ever want to be in a quake as large as the one my dad was in when he was stationed in Anchorage, Alaska in 1964. (a 9.2 and the second largest quake in the Northern Hemisphere in the 20th Century) He thought the Russians were attacking...:eek::rolleyes::)

I woke up to hear about this on the news. Didn't feel a thing.

The news just said a second quake, about a 4.0 shook at 10:10am. Didn't feel that either but channel 2 news in Chicago did.

:eek: Geez, that's pretty scary!!! Hadn't heard about it till right now, so thanks for your threads (both of you ladies).

Funny, I lived in the town of San Andreas in CA for several years and never did feel a jiggle.

So I didn't know what the heck was happening when there was one here in Utah. I was trying to get up off the couch cuz I thought the washer was off-balance!!! Lol!!! :o

To be honest Twinks, if there was shaking I would probably think it was Jim since he has spasms in the night! lol

we had some activity here last night, a door that needs to be repaired out on the shed fell, a fan fell out of a window the cats were making weird meows at 430 this morning my kid heard something also fall in the kitchen got up his two cats were acting real weird, hope all are well looks like the closer to it there is some structual damage down in new salem and Kentucky


shake
rattle
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erin it was around 430 central time at least thats when stuff was happening here

Ok, that explains a lot. I just found some books that fell off of a shelf in my dad's office. They werent there last night, so they must have fallen off this morning. (they were right on the edge of the shelf last time I saw them)

It sure woke me up! At first I thought it was premature labor pains, but then realized it was a false alarm. Stella and Wanda can do that to me, you know? :)

Premature or very late!!! LOL!


:D

Some of my family and friends in Iowa and Illinois were pretty "shook up" about the quake.

My sister felt the tremors in Dubuque, Iowa and my friend in Nauvoo, Illinois said she felt it too!

I remember we had one years ago in Toledo and I thought the duPont plant blew up; I couldn't believe it was a quake.

I'd never know if we had one now since I have tremors all the time anyhow! :p

DS said he felt it around 4:30 am. It was enough to rattle his apm bldg which is brick! :eek: One of his employees said it broke a couple of things in his home that fell to the floor. :eek:

Hey Janie~ My DD went to the Univ of Dubuque. *about an hr from me*

If you ever come up this way, give me a holler.



*smacking WIZ and AB's HAIDS together. Knock it off you two.~~ :D

I was in one once in SoCal, if you start walking normally, you'll know.

:ROTFLMAO::ROTFLMAO::ROTFLMAO:

We live about 45 miles east of the epicenter in West Salem, Ill. My husband was up getting ready to go to work. He said that he heard a big rumble then the house started shaking. By that time, I had woke up because of the shaking. This was at 4:37 AM. He went to work, I looked outside and didn't see anyhting so I went back to bed and immediately went to sleep. when I got up around 10, I turned on the TV and couldn't find out any info about it so went to the geological website and got the info there. While I was at the computer, I felt the biggest shockwave of 4.6 at about 10:15. We had no damage here. The 6 o'clock news showed the early morning broadcaat that started at 4:30 and they showed what the station looked like at the time it hit. They even showed a Louisville station when it hit. It was really weird. It was felt as far away as Atlanta. i don't want to go through this again.

Our schoolsystem does earthquake drills twice a year. Yesterday was the drill! Odd.

If there is anyone here that went to the old Braintalk boards Spring fling in New Harmony Indiana several years ago, it did do some minor damage there.

We got three aftershocks today! I just heard it on the news. LOL, never felt a thing (I must be numb or something).:confused:

An earthquake in Illinois DM? ..... Toad Hollow? ..... OMG!!! http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...s/4_6_200v.gif

Here am I reading the news.....MAJOR earthquake hits TH, and you expect me to stay calm???? http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...s/4_6_218v.gif

I mean 5 point something on the Richter Scale....that's a biggie!!

Tell me it isn't so....tell me TH escaped ....OMG! ....OMG! ....

I didn't feel anything here, but many, around my neck of the woods, did.

Pal didn't wake up or growl or anything, like he does during a thunderstorm.:rolleyes:

Yep Cindy, I know I was numb..LOL

Oh my dear Koala~~ You are so darn sweet! I didn't feel anything here in TH, but some did. I was medicated!!! :D:D

My DH said I woke him around midnight last night tho and told him we were having an earthquake. I don't remember it, but he said my eyes were wide open and I was a lil frantic. But, then again, I also had a dream that wild animals were chasing me. (I remember that) Not to worry tho, I GOT AWAY!

So, does that mean I need less meds at night or MORE????? :confused: ha!

Yest when they had an aftershock a
little after 10am, like Doydie said, I was in Petco and didn't feel a thing, but my DS felt it. I was an hr south of TH.

:eek:

I am glad you are all okay ....even...you know who. (the one that needs to take more drugs!) Hugs to all!

SHUDDER THE THOUGHT!!! Seems the earth is waking up in strange places....we had a 5.2 last week, but since we rock and roll all the time it never makes the news. We are overdue for another big one...last bad one was 1964 and was a 9.2 and it lasted over 5 minutes :eek:

I hope we continue with just rolling quakes....not looking forward to a shaker like the last big one!

Glad all are OK!

I don't know enough about EQ's to quote anything, but the one we had this wk. oringinated in West Salem, IL and there is a fault line there. It was a 5.2, which is big for IL.

I always think about them w/the earth opening up and swallowing everyone. Here goes another nightmare tonight!! :eek::eek:

I'm from the Midwest and I was never scared of a Tornado even though I have been through several bad ones but the idea of an earthquake?? Golly Wally!

It just scares the puddin' outta this old lady!! :eek:

I never knew! When you think about the fault lines you usually think CA in this country. These recent ones in Nevada (?) and IL have just amazed me. Most of ours are deep in the earth so its a little rattle...sometimes you can hear the rumble of them coming. I always stop and consider if this is the one to run for cover. To date, only a few have made my heart race.

I was in a 7.0 in Southern CA back in '72 and I think Mom was more scared than me. I was too little to understand what had happened. As an adult I ponder the magnitude of a "real" one.

The one here in 1964, DM, did open up the earth :eek: Cars and buildings collapsed into the ground in our "Down Town" district where the high rises are today....There is also a part of town called Earthquake Park where the hill fell right into the ocean....houses were riding it down to the sea. Now the state will not allow anyone to build there, and the park is just waves and waves of earth heading to the sea. Gives me chills just thinking about it! We also get Tsunami warnings here. The waves will bounce of AK and HI.

Okay!! Enough :D I'm getting goose bumps :grouphug:

My dad has photographs of the store fronts in downtown Anchorage that had fallen into the hole. I've got books with very similar pictures to my dad's photos in it, showing people looking down into the hole.

My dad was telling me a story about the '64 earthquake...he had this really wonderful parka that he'd been issued when he got to Alaska. Had the real fur collar on the hood, and was probably the warmest thing he had to wear while he was there.

He was at work at the hospital the night after the earthquake, and I guess they were pretty busy with some people who'd been injured. He was helping with someone, and had taken his parka off and sat it on a chair.

Someone came in and asked if someone could come help him with something that was on the other side of the base. My dad remembers hearing someone ask if there was a coat that they could borrow. Later that night, when he was done working, he went to go get his parka. It was gone!

My dad guessed that whoever asked for a coat had stolen his. He still misses that parka. He said that the new one they issued him was never as good as the one that he'd had first.

Australia had a 5.6 earthquake (Newcastle for anyone who's an Aussie) back in 1989 and even at 5.6, 13 lives were lost, and the damage bill was $4 billion.

Illinois' could have been worse. I'm just so glad it wasn't.

Those stories really are scary.
Things can just change so fast.

I see another nightmare tonight w/my name on it. :eek::eek::eek::eek: