Earthquake

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:46 am

Yep! I felt it! I sleep like a rock, but the Mrs. woke me up at 4:35 this morning while the house was shaking. Windows were rattling and I could hear a rumbling like big trucks or trains moving off to the southeast. The epicenter of the 5.4 was about 60 miles northwest of here about three miles under the little Illinois town of West Salem. The New Madrid fault runs through here and it's said that there will be a 'big one' someday. Better tie these tubas down, huh?

josh wagner · Post by **josh wagner** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:53 am

I felt that one this morning. Was well lets just say a rude awakening. It's kind of funny because i woke up and signed onto AIM and noticed that everyone else was signing on and changing their status to "EARTHQUAKE!!!!" Oh well, hopefully no damage was done. guess we'll find out when the sun comes up.

Jeffrey Hicks · Post by **Jeffrey Hicks** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:51 am

I slept right through it. You would think it was the end of the world with the way the news was covering it here.

Thomas Maurice Booth · Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:26 am

http://archives.zinester.com/13183/1074 ... on1895.JPG

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/El ... -fault.gif

http://www.zetatalk.com/index/lou0629.htm

Those are links detailing the New Madrid Fault so you can learn more about the Midwest's geological characteristics.

TMB

josh wagner · Post by **josh wagner** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:15 am

now that i look at that picture my actual home home was like ten miles away...

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:21 am

10:35am....

Just had another one! About the same as the one this morning. I could see them tubas shakin'!

Actually, I just checked the USGS website and this is the fifth one recorded today. Apparently there were three others between the first one at 4:35am and the one a few minutes ago.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/rec ... es_all.php

Just sittin' here.... waitin' for the 'big one'!

MaryAnn · Post by **MaryAnn** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:10 pm

I grew up in Indy. I remember one time when I was in high school, I had been out in the family car running some kind of errand. I got home, put the car in the garage, and went upstairs. My younger brothers were home and they wanted to know what I had done with the car to make the house shake! I was disappointed that we'd had an earthquake and I hadn't even felt it, due to being in the car (It was on the news later.)

So....yeah there are quakes in the Midwest!

MA

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:15 pm

TubaTinker wrote:Just sittin' here.... waitin' for the 'big one'!

Hey, maybe New Jersey will slide into the ocean!

(don't even want to think about the trail it would leave!

)

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:56 pm

bloke wrote:
TubaTinker wrote:Just sittin' here.... waitin' for the 'big one'!

Ha!

I forgot about that 'big one'.

Alex F · Post by **Alex F** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:16 pm

I felt it up here on the NW side of Chicago, having just gotten up to tap a kidney. It's hard to aim when . . .whatever.

JHardisk · Post by **JHardisk** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:21 pm

Actually, the star was misplaced. It should have been in Indianapolis. And, there was no Earthquake at all!

Tony Kniffen was warming up in the morning!

Serisouly though.. that's kind of unsettling to think that faults run all over the midwest. I'm much happier being ignorant to that fact! (Brain dumping now)

MMM... donuts!

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:51 pm

JHardisk wrote: Serisouly though.. that's kind of unsettling to think that faults run all over the midwest. I'm much happier being ignorant to that fact! (Brain dumping now) MMM... donuts!

If you think the geological fault lines through the Midwest are frightening... take a look at the underground coal mines in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. The available maps are unsettling enough without even considering many thousand miles of tunnels that were not charted. Most of those old mines are abandoned now and filled with water.

josh wagner · Post by **josh wagner** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:28 pm

mmm gotta love potential sinkholes

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:57 pm

Did anyone notice their pets doing anything strange doing the earthquakes? I didn't see it, but my dog Bear apparently came running down to the living room during the 10:15 aftershock, barking his head off for no particular reason. My mom, who was there at the time, said she didn't really feel anything out of the ordinary but Bear was still going crazy. Then again, he's kind of an idiot, so it might have been nothing in particular...

Aaron

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:39 pm

Greg wrote:my cats went crazy. One of them went all in on a pair of Jacks with an Ace showing on the turn

As long as it wasn't all in with aces and eights. Now THAT would be creepy...

PWtuba · Post by **PWtuba** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:07 pm

The quake was felt out here in central Ohio, apparently. All over the local news. I heard that it was even felt out in upper Wisconsin?!?

I didn't feel it, nor did any of my schoolmates.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:25 pm

As a native Southern Californian, I have experienced over 500 earthquakes in my lifetime. I missed a few, especially since I've been in Vietnam for the past eighteen months.

But back in October (I think it was October) we had a doozer. I was still in my sixth floor apartment (American seventh floor) about 9 pm on a Wednesday evening, when the room started gently swaying back and forth. I hadn't felt anything like that in over a year. Later, it was said that that was only a 3.5. But there isn't any part of Vietnam which gets earthquakes on a regular basis.

I should say I never joke about earthquakes. I have a lot of respect for them.