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Central U.S. Earthquake Info
ronbo142 writes "The United States Geological Survey site has real time (or close to it) information on the now two significant events of the day. Check out their site to enter your experience and view other event specific information."
With the supplied link, you need to click through to the Illinois data set.
Or, just click this one: http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/
I woke up at about 5:40 to the bed vibrating a little bit. I live in south central Michigan near the Ohio/Indiana boarders. At first I thought the cat jumped up on the bed, but he didn't then I thought maybe my wife was shaking, but she was still. It sort of felt like the massaging neck pillow I have, but all over the bed. I got up and took a shower. My wife came down a little later and I said "I think we had an Earthquake." She told me I was crazy, then she saw it in the news a little later in the day, and sent me a link for the USGS. I filled out my info earlier this morning.
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My girlfriend claims her bed shook from the earthquake last night and woke her up... I couldn't break the truth that it was really me! (zing)
Seriously though, it did wake her up and we live in Dayton, OH.
(note: I know no one will believe me that a slashdot person has a girlfriend, but she is a civil engineering major, and thus also a geek)
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
The summary makes it seem like there have been two different big quakes. In actuality there was a moderate 5.2 followed by what is apparently a 4.6 aftershock.
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That giant ring of fire is on it's way, just like TV predicted!
Blar.
The submitter is talking about two earthquakes today in the US.
Which proves what I already suspected. My snoring is worse than an earthquake!
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
20 min south of the loop (downtown Chicago), I didn't feel any earthquakes, and I've been up working all night/morning.
However, suburbs north of the loop (Evanston, Wilmette, etc) definitely felt it.
Odd--not exactly a common occurrence in Illinois!
I live just west of St Louis. My kids showed up in the doorway while the first one was happening. The news didn't bother to report it until almost 20 min later. The second one happened while I was sitting at my desk at work. The crap on one of our bookcases started to rattle. USGS shows the 2 that I felt and a bunch that didn't seem to make it all the way.
Sort of brought me back to the days I lived in Bremerton WA.
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I actually live 30 minutes outside of Chicago in the Joliet area. It was definitely one of those "WTF" moments, you didn't think earthquake because most of them out here go unnoticed and it was such a gentle rocking back and forth. There have been several aftershocks since the first one early in the morning. My roommate said around 11pm central time there was nice aftershock.
PS, I honestly thought there was a monster under my bed last night during the initial shake.
I've been saying all along, it's only a matter of time before the entire state of Illinois slides into Lake Michigan.
So I guess this makes Iben Browning right!
17 years late. And off by a magnitude of 3.
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Biblical fiscal responsibility
is it? Why the fuss? Was it not 5.2?
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
Apparently this is the largest one in the Midwest since the magnitude 5.4 one in 1968 that was also in Southern Illinois.
... maybe this is just a buildup to a bigger mega-quake as some of the wonderful reporters on CNN were suggesting. I mean really though, what are the odds of that hap
I keep telling myself I'm not the desperate type.
Reports state that the quake was felt as far away as Chicago. Speaking with everyone I work with, it was only felt by people who live in tall buildings above the 5th floor. I live on the ground floor of my building and didn't notice a thing.
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What I don't know is whether there is anything comparable in the areas affected by these central US tremors. A description of experiences is useful, but plenty of reports will have those. Those are easy to come by. Much rarer is actual raw data, actual hard information on the nature of the quake. A quantitative experience, rather than a qualitative one. There will be much more to the story than what could be felt or described through experience, and that "more" bit is the bit that seperates understanding from simply witnessing. The latter facilitates understanding but is not a substitute for it.
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See if she's heard this one. A mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and a civil engineer are discussing God. They all agree he must be an engineer, but what kind? They each present their case. The mechanical engineer says, "look at the human body, the perfection of the joints, bones and muscle. Obviously, God is a mechanical engineer." To which the electrical engineer counters, "But look at the human mind and nervous system! Surely God is an electrical engineer!" They both look at the civil engineer, who shrugs and says, "Who else would put the sewer outflow in the middle of the entertainment district?"
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my wife was awake for the 5.2 and was at her computer working on a writing assignment. She immediately went to the USGS site to check out what had happened and then filed an online report there of where she was and what she experienced.
I was awake and in my office for the 4.6 aftershock. It rattled some things, but nothing fell off shelves, etc. No panic, although I did have some thoughts about the 100+ year old brick wall of the adjoining building that forms one side of my office.
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I didn't even hear about it until I got into work, otherwise I would have called in quake. (just like the bad old days)
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
Ground rumbled a bit, a few things fell over. This is nothing major so I don't know what the big deal is other than it's a slow news day. I remember there was a rumble in Ohio in '87 that got about this much attention. There was also a fun man made earthquake I witnessed in the Middletown, Ohio area in the late 90's. It was caused by an underground blast furnace explosion at AK Steel and other than the booming roar of the explosion, it felt like a real earthquake and sent stuff falling off shelves at the Meijer store I worked at several miles away and blew windows out in homes near the plant. Thankfully no one was hurt or killed at the plant that night.
We have far more to worry about with industrial accidents, dangerous railroad crossings and crazy weather around here.
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
Here in Illinois, it woke me and my wife up. a couple of the cats were running around, the dog was howling. Book shelf rattled, but we're less then 100 miles from the epicenter. We went back to bed and got the kids up about 80 min later in the morning.
Neither of them made my chimney fall, so its a good thing I guess.
One of these days the Wabash and New Madrid faults are going to wake up and this whole area will be in a maze of chaos.
~DF
I live in Greenwood Indiana and just purchased a house. My wife and I were hoping it's not haunted. Then the closet door started to shake. Then the dresser, and the bed started to jump. We just stared at each other and finally I'm like earthquake. It's okay sweetness the ghosts would throw something at us. :D
"I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian."
Any thoughts been expressed yet on if these are foreshocks to something greater, or if these are just it?
I'm currently in Kokomo, IN -- about 50 miles straight north of Indianapolis and about 180 miles northeast of the epicenter.
:-) :-)
It woke me up with moderate shaking, which lasted about 10 seconds. I remember thinking "that was a big damn truck that went by", and going back to sleep. It knocked pictures askew, but didn't cause any damage.
It is, however, VERY SUSPICIOUS!
The two nights prior to the earthquake there were UFO sightings and hundreds of 911 calls reporting large explosions in the air. The Air Force later claimed that on successive nights (Tuesday and Wednesday) F-16 pilots doing training exercises "accidentally" exceeded the sound barrier and created sonic booms. One over Logansport and one over about Kokomo. During that time, they were also dropping flares. Supposedly it was the 122nd Fighter Wing out of Fort Wayne, IN.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=kokomo%2C+in&btnG=Search+News
I'm going to check the weekend news for crop circle reports.
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The main earthquake and the aftershock are on an fault line known as the New Madrid fault line. This fault line is known for making earthquakes up to 8 on the ricther scale. Last time that did happen was in the 19th century.
I am fairly sure that this event now is part of normal movement of the fault line, due to happen every 20 to 50 years.
People in the area should expect aftershocks in the next one or two weeks, maybe longer. Btu the aftershock pattern depends on many factors that I don't know all.
For those interested the waveform of the earthquake was recorded by people interested in recording earthquakes in nearby states. The plots can be seen here, http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/othersten.htm
But I have collected them into one nice web page. The data is near real time and is updated every 5 min, at least that is the case for most of the plots
Our first thought was that animals are supposed to behave strangely during earthquakes, or after them, or before them, some time around earthquakes. It was 4:40 in the morning so we were hazy on the specifics. Anyway, eager to experiment we leaped out of bed and ran into the front room to where our cat Geoffrey sleeps on the couch. We yelped at him, "Geoffrey! Geoffrey! Earthquake! Do something!"
Geoffrey looked at us with an expression that said, "Who the hell are you?" Then it changed to, "Leave me the #$#! alone." And finally it went to, "As long as we're all up you might as well feed me."
Our conclusion is that animals don't give a crap about earthquakes.
15 mile north of Indianapolis - I work nights, and was just, literally, flopping into bed when it hit - I was kind of going "I didn't hit the bed *that* hard when my mother (My name is on the mortgage - my mother lives with me dammit!) knocked on the door really concerned about what the heck *that* was. We thought it might have been a large truck or something.
Didn't find out about the quake till this afternoon, although I'm fairly sure I got woke up by an aftershock.
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Those USGS maps would be even cooler if they were just a layer in Google Maps or Google Earth. Then I could correlate them to all kinds of other local data, share them with other people, insert 3D buildings designed to handle the shocks...
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Earthquake lights.
The National Guard scrambled F-16's for "UFOs" and ended up waking people when one of their pilots freaked out and went super sonic. It makes much more sense than "training" and "flares" since flares aren't pseudo-stationary for 30+ minutes, and pilots don't go super sonic in that area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light
http://inamidst.com/lights/earthquake
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/faq.php?categoryID=8&faqID=103
http://geology.about.com/od/earthquakes/a/EQlights.htm
Do flares look like this?
http://www.wwki.com/Article.asp?id=661887&spid=21432
No aliens.
The USGS shows 3 earthquakes on the 18th. One in Indiana at 04:36:58 CDT. The two others in Illinois at 05:36:33 CDT and 10:14:17 CDT.
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If a Midwesterner wants to get back at a Californian for being pussies about earthquakes, all they have to do is mention tornados. Or even just thunderstorms.
Yea, growing up in Florida friends of mine and I had this saying, "You can tell a true Floridian from a transplant when a hurricane comes along. While the transplants throw their arms up in the air and scream 'let's get out of here' the Floridian says it's tyme to batten down the hatches.
On a business trip to Milwaukee two clients from CA literally crying and trying to hide under the hotel bed after a nearby lightning strike.
I was helping one of my friends build a new house and after working for the day we were driving back when it started to storm. We were in the back of a pickup truck when a lighten strike hit a tree just as we drove by not 20 feet away. The next day we topped to look at the tree and it had a burn mark circling the trunk.
FalconShould there be a Law?
Now that should be a big concern for people who worry about Global Warming. For those who don't know Yellowstone is a Supervolcano which when it erupts will emit more greenhouse gases than man can think of.
FalconShould there be a Law?
Anyone else here remember the '70s? Huh? Anyone? Hello?
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Huh. I did not know that. In fact, I didn't even know it was possible to have a fault line of any significance in the middle of a tectonic plate like that. Interesting.
"Many faults occur far from active plate boundaries.
FalconShould there be a Law?