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So, yeah, woke up to a tremor from an Earthquake down near Evansville Indiana, near the Indiana Illinois border.

First Earthquake I felt.

Stupid Earthquakes, I could have gotten another hours worth of sleep.

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/S ... splay.html

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/

So anyone else feel this 5.4 baddie?

Supposedly we got one at 3:30 last night.

But honestly, my week has been so hectic that I'm dead tired and have been a zombie and I was stumbling about at work anyway.

So I didn't even notice.

Senor Hugo wrote:So, yeah, woke up to a tremor from an Earthquake down near Evansville Indiana, near the Indiana Illinois border.

First Earthquake I felt.

Stupid Earthquakes, I could have gotten another hours worth of sleep.

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/S ... splay.html

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/

So anyone else feel this 5.4 baddie?

A 5.4 is chump change compared to a 6.8 like I was in Seattle, I was in a 5.2 in california and it felt like a large construction vehicle bouncing down the road...maybe it was the constructicons ?
http://www.ess.washington.edu/SEIS/EQ_S ... lcome.html

I must ask though how long did it last ?

The tremor that I felt lasted about 20 seconds.

So I would guess it lasted about that long when it happened.

Took about 7 minutes to go from Illinois to Fort Wayne.

Anything break?

Here in Cali, we're supposed to be due for another big one, like the one in '89.

hanauta wrote:Anything break?

Here in Cali, we're supposed to be due for another big one, like the one in '89.

I saw that report and it was ridiculous! They acted like this was something new and ground breaking but anyone could have predicted that within a 30-40 year time span!

It was like saying "a plane will crash somewhere in the world within the next 30 years" ...it's going to happen somewhere sometime.

It's been all over the news here in St Louis all day long...It supposedly happened about 4:30am my time (I had JUST gone to bed)...and I felt nothing! My cat felt nothing that he made me aware of. They said it was felt well into Indiana and Ohio to the east and as far north as Albert Lea, MN and as far south as the outskirt-area of Dallas (so I have heard from others). It was just so small! Not even my precarious shelf of toys went disturbed, which is odd since when the wind blows oddly, some of the contents of that shelf come down.

Must have been quite a teeny ground-shaker!

5.4? Not all that bad. I was in California for the Northridge earthquake in '94. That was a man's earthquake.

Its weird to hear that the middle of the country got this.Almost as weird as if Florida had gotten one

Wheeljack35 wrote:Its weird to hear that the middle of the country got this.Almost as weird as if Florida had gotten one

It's not weird that the Midwest got a ground-shaker! The largest fault line on this continent runs from the southern tip of the North America all the way to the Yukon, and right through like 8-10(maybe more) tectonic plate systems in the Midwestern US alone! A lot of non-Midwesterners have never heard of the New Madrid fault, but it is over twice as large as the San Andreas, but not at all as active. The last big shaker happened here in the early 1800's...quake lasted for over 6 min....made the Mississippi river run backwards for 5 hrs and rang church bells in Phillidelphia! Naturally, St Louis was destroyed by it, as par for the course of bigger cities back in that era.

Been that long since we got a whopper on the fault.....we are due.

Pyrostrata wrote:

Wheeljack35 wrote:Its weird to hear that the middle of the country got this.Almost as weird as if Florida had gotten one

It's not weird that the Midwest got a ground-shaker! The largest fault line on this continent runs from the southern tip of the North America all the way to the Yukon, and right through like 8-10(maybe more) tectonic plate systems in the Midwestern US alone! A lot of non-Midwesterners have never heard of the New Madrid fault, but it is over twice as large as the San Andreas, but not at all as active. The last big shaker happened here in the early 1800's...quake lasted for over 6 min....made the Mississippi river run backwards for 5 hrs and rang church bells in Phillidelphia! Naturally, St Louis was destroyed by it, as par for the course of bigger cities back in that era.

Been that long since we got a whopper on the fault.....we are due.

Its weird to me

Since 90% of the time they come from Cali

I know about the midwest history of them but they happened close to 200 years ago

Wheeljack35 wrote:Its weird to me

Since 90% of the time they come from Cali

I know about the midwest history of them but they happened close to 200 years ago

Well, the New Madird fault is still there and still active, and in the course of time, will cause a ground-shaker that will make the San Andreas fault look weak and lame....Just a matter of time!

Something to remember about faultlines: The longer they stay dormant, the bigger the disruption when they do decide to slip....thus meaning more devastation to humans' stuff because we have short memories!

You are all forgetting the fact that geological time is WAAAAY longer than our concept of it. By that reckoning, the 1800's quake was actually fairly recent, and the 'soon' you speak of could be a hundred years or more. And the quake we just had relieved some of the pressure that had been building up, meaning we should be good for a while longer... longer than we would have if the quake hadn't happened.

I live in the American Midwest and I slept right through the damn thing.

That earthquake wasn't something I expected. In Kentucky. At 4:30 in the morning!

I lost some sleep, but it was all the talk at school the next day, but I'm just glad nothing I own was wrecked.

Ahaha, if you don't like quakes don't ever come to NZL, we get them all the time, especially where I live! I actually notice when we don't have them and I miss them.

While, just before christmas, there was a 6.8 at Gisborne, which is about a 2 and a half hour drive from where I am, and it was so big **** fell off my shelves and I actually thought about getting under the desk. When you live where I do, we don't often given quakes that amount of cautious get under the desk, consideration.

But especially don't go to Wellington, our capitol, there's a st. called the Terrace, a huge fault line runs right under it, houses and all!

Apparently, I am due for a very large earthquake (Magnitude of ~8.0 to 8.5) here in the Pacific Northwest. The last big one was January 1700 according to the Japanese because they received a tsunami that came from the Pacific Northwest. I have been told that the large earthquake cycle for the Pacific Northwest is every 300 years...