Southern Illinois Earthquake

[SweetWitch]

It struck at 4:37 AM CDT. The epicenter was West Salem, Illinois and was felt in Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and beyond. People as far away as Chicago could feel the tremor.

It registered 5.2 on the Rictor, considered a moderate quake, but there is still some significant damage.

Anyone else feel it?

 

[tickledkitty]

Nope. It was scary though, wasn't it? We had one here several years ago that scared the bejesus out of me. I'd never experienced one before, and this is the last place I'd expect one.

 

[SweetWitch]

Nope. It was scary though, wasn't it? We had one here several years ago that scared the bejesus out of me. I'd never experienced one before, and this is the last place I'd expect one.

It's a pretty serious fault line we have here. Some say it's more dangerous than the one in California.

 

[ltnsfr007]

It's a pretty serious fault line we have here. Some say it's more dangerous than the one in California.

LMAO on the West coast

 

[SweetWitch]

LMAO on the West coast

Go ahead. Yuck it up. If the West Coast goes, it falls into the sea. If the Midwest goes, it becomes a new sea that splits the continent in half. I suppose it's all in how you look at it.

 

[ltnsfr007]

Go ahead. Yuck it up. If the West Coast goes, it falls into the sea. If the Midwest goes, it becomes a new sea that splits the continent in half. I suppose it's all in how you look at it.

Watch out for those cracks SW

 

[glynndah]

I felt it. I live about 40 miles away from the epicenter. The science guys/gals are saying it wasn't the New Madrid fault (the really big one) but the Wabash fault (a smaller one that runs under the Wabash River). Lots of bed shaking that lasted a couple of minutes, but nothing alarming. I have a collection of found glass bottles that didn't even move. Of course, that was probably due to the thick layer of dust cementing them in place.

 

[rgraham666]

Here's hoping everyone involved is OK.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Go ahead. Yuck it up. If the West Coast goes, it falls into the sea. If the Midwest goes, it becomes a new sea that splits the continent in half. I suppose it's all in how you look at it.

Well, and people here totally don't know what to do and most of the structures couldn't take it. It would be mass chaos at the very least.

I felt it, rattled me right out of bed down here northeast of St. Louis.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I live in the St. Louis area, IL side. It woke us up, roaring and rattling our windows and windchimes. I sat up in bed and asked my boyfriend, Holy shit, was that an earthquake? I've never felt one before.

 

[tickledkitty]

I felt it. I live about 40 miles away from the epicenter. The science guys/gals are saying it wasn't the New Madrid fault (the really big one) but the Wabash fault (a smaller one that runs under the Wabash River). Lots of bed shaking that lasted a couple of minutes, but nothing alarming. I have a collection of found glass bottles that didn't even move. Of course, that was probably due to the thick layer of dust cementing them in place.

Ooo, I didn't know dust could act as cement! Well, now, that's as good an excuse as any not to dust.

 

[mansome]

I felt it. I live about 40 miles away from the epicenter. The science guys/gals are saying it wasn't the New Madrid fault (the really big one) but the Wabash fault (a smaller one that runs under the Wabash River). Lots of bed shaking that lasted a couple of minutes, but nothing alarming. I have a collection of found glass bottles that didn't even move. Of course, that was probably due to the thick layer of dust cementing them in place.

Yep.. my bed was shaking too.. but not for the reason I wanted it to.

 

[Gizzmotick]

I live in the St. Louis area, IL side. It woke us up, roaring and rattling our windows and windchimes. I sat up in bed and asked my boyfriend, Holy shit, was that an earthquake? I've never felt one before.

I was sound asleep at the time and didn't wake up with the quake... at least not that I registered it as an earthquake. We live fairly close to a set of railroad tracks, so the passing trains shake our house on a regular basis. Kat says she didn't feel it at all, although she felt the one about 5 or 6 years ago.

Personally, I grew up (single digit years) in the Bay area around San Francisco.... so I got very accustmed to earthquakes. Can't say I like them at all.

 

[mansome]

I was sound asleep at the time and didn't wake up with the quake... at least not that I registered it as an earthquake. We live fairly close to a set of railroad tracks, so the passing trains shake our house on a regular basis. Kat says she didn't feel it at all, although she felt the one about 5 or 6 years ago.

Personally, I grew up (single digit years) in the Bay area around San Francisco.... so I got very accustmed to earthquakes. Can't say I like them at all.

That's exactly what happened to me this morning...................the train never wakes me up though, that's why I thought it was strange to wake up from my bed shaking.......... then I heard the news this morning....

 

[Gizzmotick]

That's exactly what happened to me this morning...................the train never wakes me up though, that's why I thought it was strange to wake up from my bed shaking.......... then I heard the news this morning....

I have a curio cabinet above my bed... and when the heavier frieght trains roll through, the house rattles a bit. Sometimes the rattling of the nik-naks in that curio cabinet against the glass door of it, sometimes that will wake me up... briefly. That's assuming the train horn did not already wake me up. But I've gotten used to it.... Trains go by here about every hour to every two hours... all day... all night.

I heard about the earthquake from Kat as she was leaving for work.. very casual and non-chalant.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I have a curio cabinet above my bed... and when the heavier frieght trains roll through, the house rattles a bit. Sometimes the rattling of the nik-naks in that curio cabinet against the glass door of it, sometimes that will wake me up... briefly. That's assuming the train horn did not already wake me up. But I've gotten used to it.... Trains go by here about every hour to every two hours... all day... all night.

I heard about the earthquake from Kat as she was leaving for work.. very casual and non-chalant.

Same here, we live about 50 yards from railroad tracks, but usually trains will just rattle the glass in the windows, not make the bed and furniture sway side to side.

 

[cloudy]

There are reports that it was even felt this far south, but I didn't feel it - or didn't wake up, at least.

I guess I got accustomed to the small ones growing up in SoCal.

 

[Darkniciad]

Must have slept right through it. Don't see anything on the ground that my son didn't leave there

 

[TxRad]

LMAO on the West coast

The Missouri earthquake in or around 1835 was estimated to be on the scale of a 9.2. The Mississippi River ran backwards for three days. It was felt as far south as New Orleans. A small lake in northwestern Louisiana moved over night 35 miles to the southwest to now lie across the state line with Texas. When Caddo Lake moved it killed all of the Caddo Indians. Wiped out the whole tribe.

So don't scoff at what you don't now about. I lived in California for ten years. In that time there was one mild roller quake. I wasn't impressed there either.

 

[Darkniciad]

*Laugh* The house just shook a second ago, though. Question is whether it was another quake, or whether it was a mine blast or something.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

*Laugh* The house just shook a second ago, though. Question is whether it was another quake, or whether it was a mine blast or something.

It was another one. I felt it too.

 

[Darkniciad]

In before CNN

About 20 miles north of Terre Haute, right on the Indiana/Illinois border. This one was enough to have my monitors rattling pretty good, if well below crashing to the ground level. The house creaked quite a bit, and it felt like there was a longer "buzz" after the shaking. Shaking 5 seconds, the buzz was probably 7-8 seconds.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

In before CNN

LOL. Lit: You heard it here first.

I guess I can let go of my desk now.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

For a little more info on this. Over the past two weeks the USGS has been going nuts here because there have been 600 moderate earth quakes off the Oregon coast, then St Helens started acting up again. Suddenly it all stopped and got quiet. A few days later you get the rumble in the midwest.

Really sounds like the plates a banging into each other all around the Pacific rim and moving the American plates too.

 

[mansome]

For a little more info on this. Over the past two weeks the USGS has been going nuts here because there have been 600 moderate earth quakes off the Oregon coast, then St Helens started acting up again. Suddenly it all stopped and got quiet. A few days later you get the rumble in the midwest.

Really sounds like the plates a banging into each other all around the Pacific rim and moving the American plates too.

What did it record on your "give-a-fuck-o-meter"?