Earthquake of 5.2 rattles parts of Midwest

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Associated Press - April 18, 2008 6:04 AM ET

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The U.S. Geologic Survey reports that an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 has struck the midwest.

The USGS Web site says the quake was centered near West Salem, Illinois, or about 40 miles northwest of Evansville, Indiana.

The earthquake was felt as far north as Kokomo, Rochester and Warsaw in Indiana, as well as in Evansville and Indianapolis. It shook tall buildings in downtown Indianapolis.

There were no immediate reports of injuries.

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It's also listed as the breaking news story at CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/

Did anyone feel this? This mostly hit around Illinois (West Salem I believe is where it originated), Central Indiana, and so on this morning. Let me just say I noticed a big shake and felt like my apartment was going to crumble, but I was wondering if some severe weather was coming and didn't know (with strong winds). I looked outside and everything seemed fine. I then felt a little headache and felt was head was going crazy (like I was getting sick). Well, I just went online and heard the news around, so it looks like I wasn't going crazy (since a few Facebook friends of mine said the same thing in their status message).

I know this was only a minor earthquake, but this was just really weird to happen in the midwest.

Now I can't go back to sleep since it woke me up.
 
I felt it too. Seemed random to me, like a really big washing machine on a shaky floor at first. Quite odd indeed but I heard there was a quake around here not too long ago.

I'm near Chicago btw.
 
Felt it here too. I thought it was just a low flying plane. When I hopped in the car to come to work, former NBA player Scott Padgett on my local ESPN Radio said he thought it was just indigestion.:D
 
Bloomington-Normal for me (Illinois), and I was awake when it happened here.

My door sounded like somebody was knocking, and everything was shaking a bit.

At first, I thought my roommate woke up and wanted me to turn my TV down. :lol:
 
We haven't heard reports of injuries yet, but I thought I heard about some damage to a building somewhere.

(CNN) -- A magnitude-5.2 earthquake, centered 131 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri, shook southern Illinois early Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

There were few reports of damage immediately after the predawn quake, which struck at 4:36 a.m. (5:36 a.m. ET), but CNN affiliate WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky, showed footage of rubble left in a street after a cornice fell off a brick building there.

The epicenter of the earthquake was about three miles below ground, six miles northwest of Mount Carmel, Illinois, and 38 miles north-northwest of Evansville, Indiana, according to the USGS.
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People as far north as southern Michigan and as far west as Des Moines, Iowa, reported feeling the quake, according to The Associated Press. Map »

Air traffic was halted for an hour at Indianapolis International Airport while the control tower was evacuated, CNN affiliate WRTV-TV in the Indiana city reported.

At least 30 people reported feeling the quake in Clarksville, Tennessee -- 227 miles south of the epicenter -- according to the USGS Web site.

Buildings swayed in Chicago's Loop and people were shaken awake in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the AP reported.

People as far away as southwest Michigan and northeast Georgia e-mailed CNN to say they felt the tremor.

"It shook our house where it woke me up," David Behm of Philo, Illinois, told the AP. "Windows were rattling, and you could hear it. The house was shaking inches. For people in central Illinois, this is a big deal. It's not like California."

Radio talk-show host George Noory said he felt the quake in his St. Louis home.

"Everything shook," Noory said. "I thought the building was going to collapse."
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Bonnie Lucas, who hosts a morning show at WHO-AM in Des Moines, told the AP she felt her chair move for five seconds.

The USGS said the largest historical earthquake in the region -- magnitude 5.4 -- shook southern Illinois in 1968
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After going to bed at 3, it woke me up at 5:37. :cry:
It scared me, I didn't know what was going on at first. This is the first one I've ever experienced, we don't get too many earthquakes here in southern Indiana. :)
And also, since then they have changed it to 5.2, and say the depth was 3.1 Miles, as opposed to the 7. something that they said before.
 
Wait until the big one happens. The last time the New Madrid fault had a major earthquake it rung the church bells in Boston and moved the Mississippi River.
 
I felt it here in St. Louis. Woke up from a dead sleep to the bed shaking and the closet doors rattling. Took me a minute to figure out what was going on.
 
[quote name='gamegirl79']I felt it here in St. Louis. Woke up from a dead sleep to the bed shaking and the closet doors rattling. Took me a minute to figure out what was going on.[/quote]

My father is on a business trip in St. Louis and he woke up to the earthquake, too. He was staying in a hotel so he was even more confused about what was going on.
 
Yep I felt it here too (I'm near Peoria, Illinois). At first I thought maybe it was just really windy outside as that can sometimes shake my bed. But I didn't hear the wind and the shaking stopped so I just shrugged it off and went back to sleep. Then this morning my dad told me it was an earthquake.
 
[quote name='dank']nothing like waking up to thinking your apartment building is collapsing....[/QUOTE]I live on the top floor of my apartment (which isn't exactly sturdy), so I'm getting worried here.
 
[quote name='The Mana Knight']I live on the top floor of my apartment (which isn't exactly sturdy), so I'm getting worried here.[/quote]


Is it a brick apartment?
 
[quote name='bigdaddy']Is it a brick apartment?[/QUOTE]Partially. It's not really that, but the building isn't told old, and things have already crumbled a little in my apartment building before (partially because they built it up cheaply).
 
I'm in Bloomington-Normal, and I didn't hear any noise, but the ground was surely ashakin'. It woke me up, which sucked, coz it took me a while to get back to sleep. Just felt the aftershock a few minutes ago.

People up in Trillville (Naperville), which is a Chicago suburb felt it too, so that musta been some serious shit.
 
[quote name='The Mana Knight']Partially. It's not really that, but the building isn't told old, and things have already crumbled a little in my apartment building before (partially because they built it up cheaply).[/quote]

The old 100 stack brick buildings that are only 4-5 stories tall will fall apart like nothing during an earthquake.
 
I'm in Northeast Missouri (Kirksville) and apparently we felt it pretty good. I'm a real heavy sleeper though and didn't feel a thing and no shit in my room fell down. A lot of people in my classes were woken up by it.
 
[quote name='The Mana Knight']I live on the top floor of my apartment (which isn't exactly sturdy), so I'm getting worried here.[/quote]

yeah me too, my building is old and creaks all the time plus there is a crack in the ceiling.
 
[quote name='Chacrana']

People up in Trillville (Naperville).[/quote]

what is that supposed to mean? are u trying to call naperville gangster or something?
 
[quote name='dank']what is that supposed to mean? are u trying to call naperville gangster or something?[/QUOTE]

the most gangster.

BTW, I like the Tim avatar... or Casey, I guess.
 
ah yes, naperville, where the median income is over $80,000 and houses range from the 200-500,000 dollar range.
 
Hey man, what can I say? Gotta roll in style. Besides, we're next to Aurora, so the afluent-ness of Naperville kinda balances out as a result.
 
When it started, I thought for sure my wife was just trying to wake me up. Then once I heard the walls in my house sounding as if they were going to crumble, I realized it was something much more serious. Talk about a wake up call.

Then I just felt another rumble an hour ago and figured it was just after shock. I will admit, I thought it was rather scary, but I really wasn't all too sure what was going on, especially that early.
 
I'm in Champaign, IL and I proceeded to sleep through the whole thing. Then again, they are doing construction work right outside where I live, so I'm used to loud noises and crap.

I guess I can join the ranks of my grandfather who slept through the last major earthquake in California (the one in the early-mid 90s).:lol:
 
[quote name='dank']naperville...aurora....rofl[/QUOTE]

What can I say? I have expensive tastes.

Ahem...

yeah, I know I'm not an O.G... :cry:
 
I've never been in an earthquake before, I'd like to experience one before I die though. Of course, I don't want to die because of it....
 
I assumed it was a severe storm this morning. I woke up and my windows were rattling and the room was shaking a bit. I'm about an hour east of St. Louis. The aftershock actually seemed to have more impact here.
 
I felt it. The damn thing woke me up. I got up thinking what the hell was that. I didn't last long and I went back to sleep. I thought just before I went to sleep it was an earthquake. I'm over by st. louis.
 
I was just crawling into bed in Knoxville, TN right when that happened and I actually felt my bed shaking a little. I first noticed my ceiling fan rattling a little and then I felt my bed shake enough to notice it. I was actually kind of worried about it where I am, so I can't imagine how it must have felt for those who were closer to it.
 
I live in Champaign, IL and felt both of the earthquakes today. I woke up around 4:45 AM to what I though was someone shaking me and noticed my closet door was shaking back and forth. I'm an extremely heavy sleeper and didn't think too much of it, so I just went right back to sleep. During my morning class, around 10:15 or so, I felt my desk move slightly left and right but just attributed it to testing taking place (I was in a laboratory building on campus) on the floor below me. As of then, I still had no idea of the previous earthquake and didn't see any reason to relate the two events. It wasn't until I checked my email after class and found several messages from professors and classmates, that I found out what happened.

I'm a civil engineering student with coursework focusing on structural and geotechnical engineering, so the earthquakes were a topic of interest in my classes and the guest lecture I attended today. My soil mechanics professor does research on paleoseismology, or historic earthquakes, so he spent the beginning of class talking about today's events. Apparently the quake originated from the Wabash fault (an extension of the New Madrid fault), which I believe he said experienced an earthquake of this magnitude approximately every 6000 years (I'm not positive of the number though).
 
Did they say what fault line this was centered on? I didn't think there was anything that could/would cause an earthquake in the midwest, outside of the Yellowstone Caldera (which isn't active, making it a rather unlikely culprit...).



[quote name='the3rdkey']We need to find a way to redirect these quakes to DC when all the smucks are there pretending to run shit and care.[/QUOTE]

What a rebel.
 
Omg, I actually feel like a dickweed...

I'm sleeping and wake up to loud rattling. I look up and see my shelf to my left shaking and see my my stereo cabinet with my hamster cage on it also shaking. I'm not quite with it as I'm almost still asleep. My hamster can be rather loud and he has woken me up in the past. So, I automatically assumed it was him, poor guy. I actually scolded him and put his cage in a different room. Never once in my sleepy state did I even begin to imagine that we would feel the aftermath of an earthquake in lower Michigan.

So, the overall point of this story is that I'm a bad hamster owner.
 
Friend of mine partially slept through it, he thought another train had derailed outside his house AGAIN and went back to sleep.

I wonder about him. A LOT.
 
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