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Earthquake in Illinois...wtf?Follow
Anyone else feel the Earthquake tonight? Happened around 1AM.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/
4.5 on the Richter Scale
I live about 1 1/2 hours south of Chicago. Absolutely crazy! Though we do live on a fault line, I never heard of Illinois getting earthquakes. We thought something hit our house.
do it again!
Edit: Me Edumacitation be shown'
Edited, Mon Jun 28 04:20:02 2004 by Molish
do it again!
Edit: Me Edumacitation be shown'
Edited, Mon Jun 28 04:20:02 2004 by Molish
Did not feel it this time, but then, I live close to the train.
Not many people know this, but the most active fault line in the country is in southern Illinois. Of course, the quakes aren't the biggest, and most can't even be felt, but it is the most active.
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Jophiel wrote:
I managed to be both retarded and entertaining.
Man, one day GOD is going to smite you down in your sinfulness and your going to sink into Lake Michigan!
Eb
Crazy Californians, why do they live out there with those Earthquakes? Hahahahah.
Eb
Crazy Californians, why do they live out there with those Earthquakes? Hahahahah.
Didn't feel it here in Milwaukee, however, Chicago normally gets one big quake once every 100 years or so.
i was up las night at 1 am and i was flipped out my bed and my tv fell off the staand from the earth quake and the worse happened to...MY SPLINTER CELL:PANDORA 2MOROW GAMe fell oyt of my open window..and therz da reason im moving to new york today ^^
^^ He must live right on top of Ottawa or really close. All we got here (a little south of Joliet) was a light shake for about 4-5 seconds. Was really weird, I'm in the basement most of the time, and to feel the foundation shake like that.......how I could of though it was something hitting the house I don’t know.
And I'll say it once more:
Do it again!
And I'll say it once more:
Do it again!
I live in california, you guys are pussies.
Angry Hippo wrote:
I live in california, you guys are pussies.
Right, like Californians have a right to complain about weather. Next time you get a snowstorm in March, let me know.
New Madrid
(took these from different pages, too lazy to link them)
Yay for me, considering I live about 45 minutes from Memphis.
Sounds like fun.
I'll be 63. Helluva birthday present.
(took these from different pages, too lazy to link them)
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Experts say that an earthquake could occur anywhere along the fault line running from Memphis to its northern point in St. Louis
Yay for me, considering I live about 45 minutes from Memphis.
Quote:
The Great New Madrid Earthquake of 1811-12 was actually a series of over 2000 shocks in five months, five of which were 8.0 or more in magnitude. Eighteen of these rang church bells on the Eastern seaboard. The very land itself was destroyed in the Missouri Bootheel, making it unfit for farming for many years. It was the largest burst of seismic energy east of the Rocky Mountains in the history of the U.S. and was several times larger than the San Francisco quake of 1905.
Sounds like fun.
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A 6.0 shock has a 90% chance by the year 2040. Damaging earthquakes of this magnitude are a virtual certainty within the lifetimes of our children. Because the soil in the central U.S. is looser and sandier than on the west coast, Clyburn says, “the shockwaves from an earthquake would travel much farther and the same magnitude earthquake on the west coast would be about 10 times worse in the central U.S."
I'll be 63. Helluva birthday present.
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Right, like Californians have a right to complain about weather. Next time you get a snowstorm in March, let me know.
Jealous much? ;)
Eb
here in the good old mojave desert we dont even get snowstorms in january. suckers.
/wave
Hi, AH! Welcome back to the madness!
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Hi, AH! Welcome back to the madness!
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Jophiel wrote:
I managed to be both retarded and entertaining.
Angry? Dat you?
/peers past the stack of Playgirl mags surrounding our favorite pachyderm*
Totem
*I'm not sure a hippopotomus qualifies as a pachyderm, but oh well. I haven't used that word in a sentence in ages and it was time.
/peers past the stack of Playgirl mags surrounding our favorite pachyderm*
Totem
*I'm not sure a hippopotomus qualifies as a pachyderm, but oh well. I haven't used that word in a sentence in ages and it was time.
AH? Can't be. Didn't he OD or something?
I thought he did too. Maybe this is his ghost coming back to haunt us. We'll all hear, "Schooooooooooooool's out for summer. Schoooooooooooooooooooool's out forevah!" in our sleep tonight.
Totem
Totem
Welcome back hippo!
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oby wrote:
i was up las night at 1 am and i was flipped out my bed and my tv fell off the staand from the earth quake and the worse happened to...MY SPLINTER CELL:PANDORA 2MOROW GAMe fell oyt of my open window..and therz da reason im moving to new york today ^^
Let me write what you meant to:
I felt a minor tremmor, and was so scared that I jumped out of bed, knocking the TV off the stand because I was off balance and not paying attention. Oh. And like a dork, I tossed a game out the window thinking to save my most prized possession first. It's a really good thing the actual earthquake only lasted a few seconds, because I was about to jump out myself.
There's no way a 4.5 magnitude quake knocked anything off anything, unless it was perched right on the edge requiring only a minor movement to fall off. It's a high enough magnitude to feel, but that's about it. It certainly could not possibly have "flipped you out of bed".
Yeah. I know. Dramatic license. Whatever. Earthquakes really aren't anything like you've seen in the movies. 99% of the time, by the time you realize that what you are feeling is really an earthquake, and not any of a hundred other things that feel similar, it's usually over.
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/uskgad.htm
Gbaji, check the depth of the quake. it explains why the 4.5 there was felt more than you would normally associate with an earthquake of that magnitude.
Think of the earths crust as a chunk of jello. The top of the jello chunk is our city. If you flick the piece of jello at the base, farthest away from the top with a certain force, it will cause the top part to wiggle just so much. If you take that same force and flick the jello at the top of the cube, the wiggle becomes much worse, because less mass is having the same amount of force applied. in geologic scale terms, a depth of 5 miles is extremely shallow. The shallower the quake, the worse the damage. Your average Magnitude 5 + quake occurs at a depth of 25 mi/30km. There are also quite a few 7+ quakes that occur that go unreported because they happen down 700 miles deep or so, and do almost no damage. Magnitude is important, but it's not the only factor.
Gbaji, check the depth of the quake. it explains why the 4.5 there was felt more than you would normally associate with an earthquake of that magnitude.
Think of the earths crust as a chunk of jello. The top of the jello chunk is our city. If you flick the piece of jello at the base, farthest away from the top with a certain force, it will cause the top part to wiggle just so much. If you take that same force and flick the jello at the top of the cube, the wiggle becomes much worse, because less mass is having the same amount of force applied. in geologic scale terms, a depth of 5 miles is extremely shallow. The shallower the quake, the worse the damage. Your average Magnitude 5 + quake occurs at a depth of 25 mi/30km. There are also quite a few 7+ quakes that occur that go unreported because they happen down 700 miles deep or so, and do almost no damage. Magnitude is important, but it's not the only factor.
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