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Who was closest? And who felt it furtherest away this morning?
According to my GPS I'm 60 miles SE (and 3.5 miles above) the epicenter.

I was in the shop drilling blanks at the time, the lights swayed back and forth quite a bit, a small bottle of CA was sitting crooked on some wood ships and it turned over. No harm done.
 
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I guess I slept right thought it, in Arizona. :) Don't know what's going on yet, just working on my first cup of coffee and smoke.

Jim, don't you know, 5:30 is the best time to drill blanks, nice and peacefull and quite except for the occassional earthquake :D
 
Hey folks - I saw this thread and took a looksee - because I was awakened in Bloomington, IL at 4:40 AM today by a small earthquake - something I have never experienced before. It was disconcerting to feel my house and bed shaking while all the doors rattled in their frames. Does anyone have any more information?

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Roger Garrett
 
Originally posted by PenWorks

I guess I slept right thought it, in Arizona. :) Don't know what's going on yet, just working on my first cup of coffee and smoke.

Jim, don't you know, 5:30 is the best time to drill blanks, nice and peacefull and quite except for the occassional earthquake :D
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Anthony; I would worry more about the neighbor with the shotgun! [B)]

:D
 
My step daughters live in Champaign and Mohamet, ILL.... heard through her brother this morning that the daughter in Champaign felt the quake.. she has a metal spiral staircase in her house and it rattled enough to wake her and her 17 year old daughter.. haven't heard from daughter in Mohamet yet.
 
Wife's from a little town in southern Ill. called Pinkneyville and they had light damage and most of her family now lives in DuQuion and Carbondale with light to mod. damage.
 
Heard about it on the news this morning. Have some family in the area; all are fine. Hope everyone here is o.k.
mark
 
My cat woke me up going nutso before it happened, so I was awake when it happened. It felt like a heavy truck passing by outside close to the house
 
You were drilling blanks at 5:39AM?
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I was drilling blanks at 4:39 am in Central time zone. I almost always work on pens from 4:00 to 5:00 am. That is the only free time that I can count on every day.

There was another after-shock just now.
 
The Mississippi river valley has a history of earthquakes that people just don't remember. Same is true for the Carolinas (in Charleston SC, a very historic city, you can still see earthquake damage on some of the buildings dating from the 1800's)

While the midwest and east don't have quakes in the frequency that the west has, they can cause more damage as buildings in these parts of the country have not been built to withstand the types of preassures that quakes put on them.

I live in Monterey CA for a year while I was in the Navy. Quakes there were a weekly if not daily occurance.
 
I am 110 miles south of Louisville Ky and it gave us a good little shake---I was making breakfest when it happened.
It scared the wife ----her first quake--.
 
I survived the Kobe quake of '95 and was about 20 miles from the epicenter. It was a bugger - 6000 killed!

4.0 and 5's, when shallow can do as much damage just as a 6+ that is 25 and 30 miles down.
 
With the exception of the New Madrid area, we don’t get as many earthquakes in the mid-west, but the few we do get are of a different breed than most costal area quakes. The rock structure in the mid-west and east is more rigid and therefore it transfers the shocks over longer distances. The great New Madrid quake of 1812, was probably about 8.0 on the scale, and the shaking was felt strongly over 50,000 square miles and moderately over a million square miles. By contrast the great San Francisco quake of 1906 was of about the same magnitude, but the limits of its moderate impact were only 6,000 square miles. The 1812 quake in New Madrid, Missouri reputedly caused church bells to ring in Boston. That would be like a San Andreas quake shaking up Denver.

A big area of Southern Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Western Kentucky, Tennessee and NE Arkansas are fractured with fault lines, sometimes directly from the New Madrid hotspot, but often independent.

As a result, the moderate quake this morning was felt in many states: Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, possibly Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, possibly Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; maybe more.
 
Originally posted by Russianwolf

The Mississippi river valley has a history of earthquakes that people just don't remember. Same is true for the Carolinas (in Charleston SC, a very historic city, you can still see earthquake damage on some of the buildings dating from the 1800's)

While the midwest and east don't have quakes in the frequency that the west has, they can cause more damage as buildings in these parts of the country have not been built to withstand the types of preassures that quakes put on them.

I live in Monterey CA for a year while I was in the Navy. Quakes there were a weekly if not daily occurance.
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Wolf is right about Charleston. I lived there for several years while finishing my B.A. Many of the really old buildings have massive screws (similar to a 20ft turnbuckle) that run through them that originally were supposed to "straighten up" some of the crooked walls, and then be removed. But they were left, and the fear now is that if another quake happens, the inward-pulling pressure from these screws will cause the old stuff to implode in on itself.
 
Felt one a couple years ago here in IL but slept through this one. Of course I was on a fishing trip years ago in WI and woke up with a tree in the bedroom and across the foot of the bed after a tornado passed. I guess I cant complain about not sleeping well.
 
Originally posted by Chasper

By contrast the great San Francisco quake of 1906 was of about the same magnitude, but the limits of its moderate impact were only 6,000 square miles.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I read the SF quake of '06 was only about 6.9. Very localized though and probably shallow so lots of damage.

I was in Sunnyvale in 1979 when Hollister had a little 2.2 or so that they almost didn't feel, but it knocked our phone system out for about 3 days... the company had just spent mega bucks for a computerized Rhone system that did everything you might ever want to know about your phone bill, but afraid to ask... phone switch sat on ground floor in main building, but was shaken loose from it's pennings.. I was on a mezzanine floor in secondary building and we got rattled pretty good.
 
I have seen and heard a lot about the possibility of earthquakes in the mid west and that sort of area. By the way some of the info I heard is that a 5.2 there will not feel the same as a 5.2 in california. It would feel much stronger. Has to do with how much the plate is fractured under you, and how well it can transfer the energy. hope everyones everybody is ok. We had a 4.something once that I actually heard before I felt it.
 
I was south of Cleveland, OH and I felt the quake there....daughters live in southern Indiana, where it really rock and rolled, including an aftershock
 
The fear mongers around Memphis are sure the big one is coming, Geologists said this recent quake could have released enough stress on the tectonic plates to really let the New Madrid fault plates have some room to move. I went trough the 72 Newhall quake, we lived in Santa Ana about 80 or so miles away, It took about 3 or 4 minutes to get out of a water bed, I remember one in the early 50s that was centered in Tehachapi,<sp>, it broke windows in our house in Huntington Park which was 10 miles east of Los Angeles, about 120 miles from the epicenter, I don't like Earthquakes!!! I've been through several of them , one Tornado and one Hurricane. I think I prefer Hurricanes, there is probably more energy in a Hurricane, it just isn't thrown at you quite as fast.
 
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