Indiana-Illinois earthquake!

[rebelmusic]

Apparently I felt it, as I woke up right at that time, but didn't register what it was. I did, however, feel an aftershock about 10 minutes ago. The table and chair where I'm sitting were both shaking all over the place; I could see the trees out the window behind me reflected in my laptop screen as it was vibrating all over hell. Very weird. Not quite as weird as the actual earthquake I felt about 5 years ago--I was sitting at work with both elbows on the desk and my chin in my hands and could actually feel the desk undulating. Very, very creepy. I didn't say anything because I thought maybe I was having a stroke or something ; one of the managers came out of his office about 15 minutes later and said that there'd just been an earthquake somewhere in TN.

Exactly the same here. I woke up briefly and remember something being strange, but passed right back out. I definitely felt the one later in the morning though...weird. The funny thing is that nobody knew what it was at first because our floor shakes a bit anytime someone walks by (hollow flooring for wiring, etc.), and I thought that someone really fat had walked by, or someone was running. At this time I still didn't know about the larger one earlier, so when someone said 'was that another earthquake?' i totally thought they were joking.

[stinkdified]

Did not feel a thing. Slept right through it.

good, i thought i was the only one. everyone was talking about it at work and its kinda scary, if I slept through that, I hope i wouldn't sleep through the next one till a beam was crackin me on the head and it was too late to get out of the building...

[Blueline29]

Apparently I felt it, as I woke up right at that time, but didn't register what it was. I did, however, feel an aftershock about 10 minutes ago. The table and chair where I'm sitting were both shaking all over the place; I could see the trees out the window behind me reflected in my laptop screen as it was vibrating all over hell. Very weird. Not quite as weird as the actual earthquake I felt about 5 years ago--I was sitting at work with both elbows on the desk and my chin in my hands and could actually feel the desk undulating. Very, very creepy. I didn't say anything because I thought maybe I was having a stroke or something ; one of the managers came out of his office about 15 minutes later and said that there'd just been an earthquake somewhere in TN.

Exactly the same here. I woke up briefly and remember something being strange, but passed right back out. I definitely felt the one later in the morning though...weird. The funny thing is that nobody knew what it was at first because our floor shakes a bit anytime someone walks by (hollow flooring for wiring, etc.), and I thought that someone really fat had walked by, or someone was running. At this time I still didn't know about the larger one earlier, so when someone said 'was that another earthquake?' i totally thought they were joking.

Lol, that reminds me of when I worked at AT&T, also on a hollow floor. I had a Sakic bobblehead on my monitor and every time this one enormous man stomped past my cubicle, the thing'd jig up and down like it was having a seizure. A couple of times he managed to get it to fall completely off of the top of the monitor, which is pretty impressive.

[Winning Unlimited]

Apparently I felt it, as I woke up right at that time, but didn't register what it was. I did, however, feel an aftershock about 10 minutes ago. The table and chair where I'm sitting were both shaking all over the place; I could see the trees out the window behind me reflected in my laptop screen as it was vibrating all over hell. Very weird. Not quite as weird as the actual earthquake I felt about 5 years ago--I was sitting at work with both elbows on the desk and my chin in my hands and could actually feel the desk undulating. Very, very creepy. I didn't say anything because I thought maybe I was having a stroke or something ; one of the managers came out of his office about 15 minutes later and said that there'd just been an earthquake somewhere in TN.

Exactly the same here. I woke up briefly and remember something being strange, but passed right back out. I definitely felt the one later in the morning though...weird. The funny thing is that nobody knew what it was at first because our floor shakes a bit anytime someone walks by (hollow flooring for wiring, etc.), and I thought that someone really fat had walked by, or someone was running. At this time I still didn't know about the larger one earlier, so when someone said 'was that another earthquake?' i totally thought they were joking.

Lol, that reminds me of when I worked at AT&T, also on a hollow floor. I had a Sakic bobblehead on my monitor and every time this one enormous man stomped past my cubicle, the thing'd jig up and down like it was having a seizure. A couple of times he managed to get it to fall completely off of the top of the monitor, which is pretty impressive.

There is a lady I work with here. She could be a linebacker. huge. When she walks, you can feel it. She is very aggressive, won't take shit from no one, and makes you get out of the way for her. I try to leave when she does so I have a leading blocker.

[Blueline29]

It didn't register for me right away either...

I thought there was some paranormal shit going down in my bed room. lol

I'm kinda pissed now that I missed all the fun! I just thought I'd arbitrarily woken up, but remember thinking at the time that 4:48 was a weird time to wake up like that; if I'm gonna wake up, it's usually between 2 and 3, and that's pretty rare with the nature sound machine set on max volume. Somebody could probably blow up the building around me and I'd never notice.

On another (huuuge) board I'm a member of, there are like 8 pages of posts from people as far away as Wisconsin who felt it this morning.

[OS]

A Canadian Press article headline mentioned that it was felt in Ontario, which I assume meant by machine not person, but the article didnt ever mention in the actual article, only the headline.

[choppa4]

The earthquake woke up my wife and I....4:37am.
It was really shaking the house...back and forth, back and forth.
Odd feeling to feel the earth move back and forth like that. I don't know why, but I always thought earthquakes moved the ground more up and down than side to side. But this was definitely side to side shaking.

Then this morning at work, we felt an aftershock...a pretty good size one too.
And apparently, they've had 7 or 8 small aftershocks near the epicenter since this morning.

It was a 5.2 quake.
2nd largest recorded quake in Illinois since they started measuring quakes.
The Largest was either 5.3 or 5.4 back in 1968.

A 5.3 quake is approximately 10 times the force of a 5.2 quake. I'm not sure why that is.

Imagine a 7 or 8 on the richter scale quake coming from New Madrid, like many say is likely to happen in our lifetime.
I wonder if that means a 7.2 quake will be 200 times the force of the one we had this morning. That would be pretty bad.

The Richter scale is logarithmic, so every small increase in magnitude by number is a much larger increase in power all the way up the scale.

[stinkdified]

The Richter scale is logarithmic, so every small increase in magnitude by number is a much larger increase in power all the way up the scale.

yep, just like decibels for sound...which is why normal conversation is about 60-70dB, but double that is 120-140, which is about the volume of a jet engine (if youre standing on the runway~75 ft)....

[Blueline29]

Do you all remember the last big New Madrid quake scare? I want to say it was late '80s or so; the main image I have of it (other than it not happening, obviously) is the artist's rendering of what the downtown skyline could potentially look like. There was a pic of the Arch with about the top 1/3 just...gone. It terrified me when I saw it.

[BF44]

Do you all remember the last big New Madrid quake scare? I want to say it was late '80s or so; the main image I have of it (other than it not happening, obviously) is the artist's rendering of what the downtown skyline could potentially look like. There was a pic of the Arch with about the top 1/3 just...gone. It terrified me when I saw it.

It was 1990, I think.... That Dr. Iben Browning guy predicted on a given day, the world would basically shake like that fat guy at the Blues games.

Oddly, it didn't happen.

[Blueline29]

Do you all remember the last big New Madrid quake scare? I want to say it was late '80s or so; the main image I have of it (other than it not happening, obviously) is the artist's rendering of what the downtown skyline could potentially look like. There was a pic of the Arch with about the top 1/3 just...gone. It terrified me when I saw it.

It was 1990, I think.... That Dr. Iben Browning guy predicted on a given day, the world would basically shake like that fat guy at the Blues games.

Oddly, it didn't happen.

YES, that was it! I remember devoting days to discussing it in my journalism class.

[BF44]

Do you all remember the last big New Madrid quake scare? I want to say it was late '80s or so; the main image I have of it (other than it not happening, obviously) is the artist's rendering of what the downtown skyline could potentially look like. There was a pic of the Arch with about the top 1/3 just...gone. It terrified me when I saw it.

It was 1990, I think.... That Dr. Iben Browning guy predicted on a given day, the world would basically shake like that fat guy at the Blues games.

Oddly, it didn't happen.

YES, that was it! I remember devoting days to discussing it in my journalism class.

The worst part was..... we have a volunteer fire dept here, so the tornado sirens double as fire sirens to alert the VFD guys....



there was a fire that night......


half the town woke up in a panic... :D

[glen a richter]

That's so damned cool!

Not that earthquakes are cool, but as long as no major damage was done. It would be a great teaching experience if a harmless little earthquake happened in NYC.

[glen a richter]

The earthquake woke up my wife and I....4:37am.
It was really shaking the house...back and forth, back and forth.
Odd feeling to feel the earth move back and forth like that. I don't know why, but I always thought earthquakes moved the ground more up and down than side to side. But this was definitely side to side shaking.

Earthquakes move the ground in 3 different ways, since there's 3 types of waves: Compressional waves come first, shear waves come second and Love waves come 3rd. One goes back and forth, one goes side to side and one goes like a roller coaster. Since it wasn't a major earthquake and you were far enough from the epicenter (probably) you didn't really notice the brunt of the event. At the epicenter they probably noticed the up and down a lot more.

[BF44]

That's so damned cool!

Not that earthquakes are cool, but as long as no major damage was done. It would be a great teaching experience if a harmless little earthquake happened in NYC.

Looking back on it, it is pretty cool, yeah. Let's just not intensify it's coolness.......

[hockeychick5739]

Is it really, really sad that the earthquake was kind of the best part of the whole week? It's been a crappy week. And I stayed up till 3am studying for stats last night and was actually having a nightmare about stats when the earthquake woke me up to save me from my bad dreams. It was great..and really awesome (since there were no deaths and all).

[Topshelf331]

I was at work for the 1st, we thought wind was shaking the plane. I was going to shut the hanger door. Then When i stepped out of the plane there was no wind and the plane was still moving. And the cables of the hangar ceiling were jumping around. Oh, its an earthquake. I felt an aftershock about 5- 10 min later, when i was standing on the main entry door. I guess the fact those things are a little springy, making it more sensitive.

The second one i was in my living room in the basement.

[cprice12]

The earthquake woke up my wife and I....4:37am.
It was really shaking the house...back and forth, back and forth.
Odd feeling to feel the earth move back and forth like that. I don't know why, but I always thought earthquakes moved the ground more up and down than side to side. But this was definitely side to side shaking.

Then this morning at work, we felt an aftershock...a pretty good size one too.
And apparently, they've had 7 or 8 small aftershocks near the epicenter since this morning.

It was a 5.2 quake.
2nd largest recorded quake in Illinois since they started measuring quakes.
The Largest was either 5.3 or 5.4 back in 1968.

A 5.3 quake is approximately 10 times the force of a 5.2 quake. I'm not sure why that is.

Imagine a 7 or 8 on the richter scale quake coming from New Madrid, like many say is likely to happen in our lifetime.
I wonder if that means a 7.2 quake will be 200 times the force of the one we had this morning. That would be pretty bad.

The Richter scale is logarithmic, so every small increase in magnitude by number is a much larger increase in power all the way up the scale.

Which makes you wonder how massive a 7 or 8 magnitude quake would be compared to the 5.2 one we just had.
Scary stuff.

[Guppy]

Do you all remember the last big New Madrid quake scare? I want to say it was late '80s or so; the main image I have of it (other than it not happening, obviously) is the artist's rendering of what the downtown skyline could potentially look like. There was a pic of the Arch with about the top 1/3 just...gone. It terrified me when I saw it.

It was 1990, I think.... That Dr. Iben Browning guy predicted on a given day, the world would basically shake like that fat guy at the Blues games.

Oddly, it didn't happen.

Yes it was 1990 because I remember doing all these drills in HS. The day came and went....and we stopped doing the drills. We did them every week for about 2 months straight.

The guy who predicted it had a theory...

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12--around December
3--3rd day of the month
4:56--around that time (am or pm)
7.8--size of the quake
90--in the year 1990

[STL JA]

Do you all remember the last big New Madrid quake scare? I want to say it was late '80s or so; the main image I have of it (other than it not happening, obviously) is the artist's rendering of what the downtown skyline could potentially look like. There was a pic of the Arch with about the top 1/3 just...gone. It terrified me when I saw it.

It was 1990, I think.... That Dr. Iben Browning guy predicted on a given day, the world would basically shake like that fat guy at the Blues games.

Oddly, it didn't happen.

Yes it was 1990 because I remember doing all these drills in HS. The day came and went....and we stopped doing the drills. We did them every week for about 2 months straight.

The guy who predicted it had a theory...

1234567890

12--around December
3--3rd day of the month
4:56--around that time (am or pm)
7.8--size of the quake
90--in the year 1990

That day is infamous in St. Louis history.