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  • Appleseed

    Feb. 10, 2010 6:00 p.m. Appleseed Dork

    Earthquake.

    In Illinois.

    Last night.

    Yes.

    I was up last night doing "work" on the PC and I felt/heard a rumble and the big ol' CRT monitor starts shaking. I thought "Christ, did the furnace blow up?" Not kidding, I freaked out a little. Empty house at 4:00 in the morning a things are shaking?

    According to the news:

    Reports indicate that a 3.8 magnitude quake hit Sycamore in Illinois today about 45 miles away from Chicago. Generally the quakes are not noticeable, but this one was bigger than usual.

    The quake struck about 3.1 miles underground and thus was not a significant or dangerous quake by most means. There were some damages but no reports of injuries. The quake was felt from Illinois to Indiana.

    California's got nothing on us.

  • spriteracer

    Feb. 10, 2010 9:36 p.m. spriteracer New Reader

    We had one in New Orleans a few years ago that made people's pool water rock back and forth. I think it was around a 3.0 and I did not feel it.

  • mtn

    Feb. 10, 2010 9:53 p.m. mtn SuperDork

    I was fast asleep on a bunk bed in a 28 story tall building. Did not feel it. I have a feeling if I were at home I would have, one of my prof's said he felt it. My mom said Ralph (the dog) woke up and went crazy over it.

  • Opus

    Feb. 10, 2010 11:03 p.m. Opus Dork

    Appleseed wrote:

    Earthquake.

    In Illinois.

    Last night.

    Yes.

    I was up last night doing "work" on the PC and I felt/heard a rumble and the big ol' CRT monitor starts shaking. I thought "Christ, did the furnace blow up?" Not kidding, I freaked out a little. Empty house at 4:00 in the morning a things are shaking?

    According to the news:

    Reports indicate that a 3.8 magnitude quake hit Sycamore in Illinois today about 45 miles away from Chicago. Generally the quakes are not noticeable, but this one was bigger than usual.

    The quake struck about 3.1 miles underground and thus was not a significant or dangerous quake by most means. There were some damages but no reports of injuries. The quake was felt from Illinois to Indiana.

    California's got nothing on us.

    3.8...

    They need another quarter. the bed will keep shaking that way. It takes a 5.0 to even wake us up any more.

  • Capt Slow

    Feb. 10, 2010 11:08 p.m. Capt Slow HalfDork

    Appleseed said:

    Reports indicate that a 3.8 magnitude quake hit Sycamore in Illinois today about 45 miles away from Chicago. Generally the quakes are not noticeable, but people in this area are Bob Costas.

    There I fixed it for you

  • GlennS

    Feb. 10, 2010 11:19 p.m. GlennS Dork

    you can feel a 3.8?

  • Jamesc2123

    Feb. 10, 2010 11:44 p.m. Jamesc2123 Reader

    About 8 years ago there was a quake around the Adirondacks area in NY. It didn't wake us up in Watkins Glen about 200 miles away but my dad's four dogs just went absolutely batnuts. We joked all morning about "haha, maybe it was an earthquake the dogs could sense but we can't", then we turned on the news a few hours later....

  • friedgreencorrado

    Feb. 10, 2010 11:52 p.m. friedgreencorrado Dork

    GlennS wrote:

    you can feel a 3.8?

    ROFL! You sound like my sister & BIL in Seattle. They turn around to find their coffee cup's moved an inch or so from where they set it down on the countertop and say, "..oh, we must have had a tremor.."

  • mtn

    Feb. 11, 2010 12:18 a.m. mtn SuperDork

    GlennS wrote:

    you can feel a 3.8?

    When you live in an area that the biggest tremors come from trains and semis, yes.

  • hotrodlarry

    Feb. 11, 2010 10:54 p.m. hotrodlarry Reader

    Jamesc2123 wrote:

    About 8 years ago there was a quake around the Adirondacks area in NY. It didn't wake us up in Watkins Glen about 200 miles away but my dad's four dogs just went absolutely batnuts. We joked all morning about "haha, maybe it was an earthquake the dogs could sense but we can't", then we turned on the news a few hours later....

    I remember that one. I felt that quake here in NH. Thought it was the train going by the apartment I was living in at the time. The train tracks ran about 75 yards behind the building.

  • ClemSparks

    Feb. 12, 2010 9:53 a.m. ClemSparks PowerDork

    For us folks who live on stable ground, it's quite unnerving the first time you feel an earthquake (we had one a year or so back that I felt here in MO...I think it was in IL somwhere).

    In any case...I did not realize that I had this very simple assumption my entire life up until that point:

    "The earth does not move."

    Having that assumption shattered left me feeling a little out of sorts. I wasn't freaked out...I enjoyed it, but it's funny to have an "Earth Moving" moment like that...

    Clem

  • minimac

    Feb. 12, 2010 10:01 a.m. minimac Dork

    ClemSparks wrote: "The earth does not move." Clem

    Gee, Mrs.Mini tells me she feels the earth move sometimes when we are 'intimate'!

  • slefain

    Feb. 12, 2010 10:11 a.m. slefain Dork

  • Duke

    Feb. 12, 2010 11:29 a.m. Duke SuperDork

    Appleseed wrote:

    Earthquake.

    In Illinois.

    Last night.

    Yes.

    California's got nothing on us.

    D00derama. The New Madrid Fault runs right up the middle of the country and it is overdue for a big release. Last time the New Madrid really let go (about 170 years ago), the Mississippi flowed NORTH for a bit. When it actually drops the big one, it's going to make Loma Prieta look like a bar fight.

 

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