Timely earthquake follows yesterday's report on lowered risk from Midwest earthquake
This morning's earthquake centered in downstate Illinois follows a published report in yesterday's Science Daily about a recently presented scientific study that lowered risk estimates for the New Madrid fault. Science Daily reported: The dangers posed by a major earthquake in the New Madrid and Charleston, South Carolina zones in the Midwestern and Southern parts of the United States may be noticeably lower than current estimates if seismologists adjust one of the major assumptions that go in read
As I was getting ready this morning, I suddenly felt my entire home tremor. The tremor lasted only a few seconds and occurred at about 5:40 a.m. Startled, I started thinking of reasons for the shaking. Was it a train rumbling by several blocks away? I often feel the vibrations of trains as they travel across the St. Marys River trestle at Van Buren and Main Street and head east through Fort Wayne. Was it a large semi of some kind that had passed by? Sometimes those vehicles also trigger vibra read
Rock ‘n’ Roll !! 0 Comments Published by Buster April 18th, 2008 in General, News, Iowa, Enviroment, History A 5.4 earthquake that appeared to rival the strongest recorded in the region rocked people awake as far away as Milwaukee early Friday, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a powerful Midwest temblor. The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered 6 miles from West Salem, Ill., and 66 miles from Evansville, Ind. It awakened people in neighboring Indiana and even Milwaukee, Wis., read
Who else felt this morning's 5.4-magnitude Illinois earthquake? Mods, feel free to delete this if need be. I don't know if this is an accepted use of MeTa or not, but I didn't see anything about the earthquake on the blue, and couldn't think of a non-chatfilter AskMe question about it. While I understand that bigger earthquakes than this happen on a regular basis in other places, and in fact do happen fairly regularly on the New Madrid fault as well, this was still a pretty big one for us in the read
Not exactly the way you expect to wake up in the Midwest. A 5.4 earthquake in Illinois has rocked people awake as far away as Indiana, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a large temblor in the Midwest. Yes, you west coasters may be sneering at our puny 5.4. But remember the record of this area is enough to make people nervous. So, did you get rattled out of bed this morning? Update [2008-4-18 6:32:54 by Devilstower]: And as a complete coincidence, today is the anniversary of the read
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