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Did anyone feel the small quake this morning? This house shook and it's the old style brick, my wife thought I was falling out of bed. It was something that happens in Indiana from time to time feels very strange. It was felt in Ohio also. Did anyone else feel it? If so how far did it go I wonder?
Richard
On the news, they said it stretched from Georgia to Michigan. I remember us having one in Illinois in the late 60s-early '70s.Quote:
Originally Posted by ford2custom
I heard it originated in Illinois
Was it California finally slipping off into the Pacific??:whacked:
This is from Fox:
"The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered six miles from West Salem, Ill., and 45 miles from Evansville, Ind."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351698,00.html
I felt in SW Indiana it woke me up from a dead sleep. It did originate in IL and it registered a 5.2 on the Richter scale. My wife thought it was a tornado until we looked outside and saw the clear sky and then we knew. There have also been aftershocks all morning. Not something we are used to having in IN.
slept right thru it and alarm went off about 4:50 am . Last one of this size was back in 68 or so.
Nope were still here!:LOL: :D :whacked:Quote:
Originally Posted by IC2
Jeremy536
We live in North Central In.
I've been gone for most of the day but my wife said that on news they called it a rare large earthquake 5.2 and it started in Il. They felt it in Cincinnati, Ohio. This was second time I felt one; I first one was in the late 80's. I was setting in a metal chair on the concrete patio, the chair was moving I had never felt one before it was strange. They say this is a fault line.
Richard
didnt exactly feel like a "small quake" here in evansville, IN. woke me right up. scared my 6 yr old daughter but my boys slept right through it. i just froze in bed until it stopped. freaked me out!
im on the boat and this A.M. i was just above evansville indiana northbound
there was a lot of chatter goin on the radio but i didnt feel a thing out here..
im glad no one was injured..
malibufreak
I used small because I haven't been around too many but this brick house was shaking. It was like a Jet flying low overhead, for a brick house to rattle it was more then a small one. It's like being the only person to see a UFO until someone else says they saw it to, you don't know what is happening. After the house was shacking then a second smaller one came. Could you imagine being in San Francisco when they had the last big one in the 80’s?
Richard
I was here! 45 miles north in my 1858 home. In the early 1990's We had three 6.0 and greater earth quakes(all separate faults) in a 48 hour period while I was in school at Humboldt State. First one sounded like a football team on the roof, threw my roomates truck into the street right off the drive way, lifted the concrete up two inches, second one hit while at school, and third one right after, third one actually leveled the drive way again. 45 miles to the south of us on the lost coast, the sea floor lifted 12 feet into the air. everything in the tidal pools started to die being up about 10 feet above the water. I was a marine biologist then and it was a facinating thing to see and study. Earth quakes unnerve us, but tornados that some of you guys get scare the bagejesus out of me, and lets not forget the Hurricanes!:D
That was unbelievable what I can remember highway's looking like sandwiches people being trapped. I can't remember the exact year but I know it was after 86 because my wife, daughter, and I went across the golden gate bridge and thought how nice everything was. Just goes to show anything can happen anyplace anytime. It's hard to believe people can get back to going about their business after that. We have had some pretty bad tornados in the mid west when they leave they pretty much level the ground.
Richard
I remember as a kid going with my father to Coalinga, about 1.5 hours from my house (except we used to fly in his plane so was faster). this was mid-80's, big earthquake had leveled many many homes and businesses there and he was rebuilding.
I have wondered since I heard the blurp on the news earlier today if that fault is the one I heard about in geography 10 years ago. supposedly there's a horrible fault that lies between chicago and new orleans, runs through st. louis I think, (not good with map but trying to go from memory here) teacher had said that it had the potential to level every city along it from new orleans north, chicago on bedrock so ok. this is the fault that last time it really gave way in the 1800's the mississippi ran backwards for 6 hours.
Red
I Too can remember seeing a program about the fault line. Unless they talk about it pretty often we forget like I have until you mentioned it. It looked pretty scary.
Richard
Small quake???? Is that like being a little pregnant?????:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
I guess so there are going to be some people getting shaken up!!!
RICHARD
5.2 isn't exactly small! It is very fortunate that there was not more damage and injury from the one in Illinois. Consider that the Richter Scale is a logarithmic scale: a 5 is ten times greater than a 4, and a 6 is ten times greater than a 5. Most of the seriously damaging shakers in California are between 5 and 6; the ones greater than 6 are really rough.
Back in the eighties, the Whittier Narrows quake, which was, if I recall, a 5.4, did a tremendous amount of damage to buildings and infrastructure; it moved a power transformer in one of our substations, about six miles from the epicenter, off of it's pad: the transformer weighed 850,000 pounds, and was welded to steel plates anchored four feet deep in a monolithic concrete pad 25 feet wide, 50 feet long, and seven feet deep. Perhaps it would be more correct to say that the quake moved the pad out from under the transformer; but, never the less, a lot of serious power is released in one of those shaky things. At the station where I was based, about forty miles away from the epicenter, all of the towers and lines and structures took on the resemblance of a vertical "spaghetti garden" for a quite a few seconds; they all waved and danced around like they were made of some soft wiggly stuff, instead of heavy steel, and many large flanged joints were shaken loose; we had oil and water leaks galore.
Our house is double brick with a lot of big windows, the way the house was shaking I was surprised it didn't do any damage.
Richard
just got woke up to another one a few mins ago!
Never got experience earthquakes here in Oklahoma, we are to busy dodging Tornado's!
Surprisingly, we do get a few earthquakes in the northeast. Had one a few years back with an epicenter about 25 miles east. Whole lot of shaking going on that evening. I thought someone had run a truck into the side of the house. Yesterday we had two tornadoes touch down a few miles up the road. Fortunately not much damage there or here. We also get an occasional hurricane and my place routinely gets winds between 25 and 45 mph. :(
Tornadoes scare me most of all and having experience two here a few years back and one in Olathe KS a few years ago, I just don't think I could live where they roam frequently. I'd be having mini-strokes every time it thundered. :eek: :eek:
It's funny what scares us. My house sits on a huge slab of bedrock, I believe(my middle brother is the geologist in the family). It survived the 1906 earthquake in S.F. that demolished most of the old victorians North and South of me. Our town supposedly has this deep slab of rock, that buffers and protects it in earthquakes. Petaluma is known to have some of the finest collection of old iron fron buildings in California, because they all survived the Big one(1906).
We added 1500 square feet to the back of our little shack a few years ago. It took over a year for the permits, and in the end the plans included a huge steel beam to be built into the rear frame work for earthquake retrofitting. The problems we encountered were interesting. First of all the new structure is tied to the old house with sort of a slip joint. The fear was in an earthquake, the new addition would be stiffer than the 1858 original portion and would litterally tear the old house apart in the event of an earthquake.
Well shortly after it was built we had a 4.something with an epicenter closeby hit. I've never heard anything like it in my life. I asked my wife to run to the driveway, because I thought someone ran their car or truck into the side of the house. Something about the steel beam, made this almost car crash jolt and sound.Here is a picture of the beam. The engineer for our plans builds bridges for a living so I know it was a bit overkill at the time, but that's ok with us!:D
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/c...vens/beam3.jpg