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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 05:52 AM Original message |
Earthquake Hits Illinois |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 05:56 AM Response to Original message |
1. I felt an earthquake tremor outside of Chicago when I was in high school |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:00 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. wonder what kind of fault line runs thru there |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Probably a flaw within a plate. |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:16 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. The New Madrid Fault line runs up into Cairo, IL |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:18 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. listening to the chicago radio right now, says its a 'bedrock defect' |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 02:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
34. That's all the way at the other end of the state |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:35 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. That's true |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:31 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. all I remember is a bit of noise and all my books sliding off my bed |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 07:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
20. Way back in the early years of my being we felt some small quakes here in northeastern OK |
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bigworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 08:08 AM Response to Reply #1 |
24. That was in 1974. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:03 AM Response to Original message |
3. About half the magnitude of the one in Haiti. |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:18 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Magnitudes Are Not Linear, But Logarithmic |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:42 AM Response to Reply #7 |
14. OK thanks for the education. |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:20 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Richter scale operates on orders of magnitude |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:03 AM Response to Original message |
4. more from the geological survey |
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Saturday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:29 AM Response to Original message |
10. I felt it, my house shook. |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:32 AM Response to Original message |
12. It was just Steven Lee Cohen falling out of bed with the nightmare of spending |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:40 AM Response to Original message |
13. seems as though DU has scooped the big sites today |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:48 AM Response to Original message |
15. I slept right through it. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 06:51 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. ahh Ill bet my son snored thru it too in chicago |
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Ghost of Tom Joad (651 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 07:19 AM Response to Original message |
17. I remember two |
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carla (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 07:35 AM Response to Reply #17 |
38. Had much bigger before... |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 07:19 AM Response to Original message |
18. I felt it - it woke me up |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 07:25 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. callers on wgn radio this morning |
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spiritual_gunfighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 07:52 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. I had no idea it was an earthquake either |
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spiritual_gunfighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
21. I felt it! |
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JoDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
23. I didn't feel it |
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ChicagoSuz219 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
25. Slept thru it. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
26. just downgraded to 3.8 , heard it on the news and |
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sharesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
27. I was sure that a snowplow had smashed into the living room. |
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CanonRay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 08:57 AM Response to Original message |
28. Had a 4 something when I was a teenager in the 60's |
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LibertyLover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 09:28 AM Response to Original message |
29. I went to college in Chicago |
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cactusfractal (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
30. The people of Chicago made a deal with the devil... true story! |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
31. We had one here in New York back in 1998 - that was very weird. |
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goclark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 10:41 AM Response to Reply #31 |
39. Los Angeles checking in ~ I was here for the Northridge |
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Kota (658 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
32. I thought a snowplow hit the house. |
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Mugu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 09:25 PM Response to Reply #32 |
37. I live just outside Sycamore and was writing an email when this occurred. |
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LeftHander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
33. Illinois Earthquake Panic 2010!! |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
35. The weather reports around here are starting to sound like an Al Gore movie. nt |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. Earthquakes aren't weather. (nt) |
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