We don't normally have them here in Ohio. I have only felt one other one in the 25 years or so since I moved back here. But this morning at 5:38 am, they had one over in southern Illinois that measured 5.2 on the Richter Scale. I felt it here. Was more than a little ripple lasting about 1 or 2 seconds. I wouldn't have thought anything of it, except the cat was laying on the floor and he jumped up and was looking all around the living room. He then looked at me like it was my fault!
Poor cat, and poor you for getting the blame. We rarely have them here either, so if I feel one it makes me queasy.
I live in Central Illinois and slept right through it. LOL My animals didn't tho. They all jumped up on me and woke me up just long enough for me to turn over. LOL
We've even had a few here in Britain. Some have been big enough to cause structural damage to buildings.
I read that there was one in Central Indiana, but I missed it cause Im in Canada right now Man I always miss the good stuff! *pouts* *lol*
It was supposedly felt in Wisconsin, too, but I didn't feel anything up our way. We never have earthquakes here, but it's getting close to tornado season and we get our share of those during the summer months.
The quak was about 45 miles north of Evansville Indiana Bip. Just over the line in Ill. They say it was felt as far away as Atlanta, Georgia.
I wasn't in town, but a friend of mine near Detroit said he felt it. Sure it is odd, but there is a major fault line that runs right through the area.
I was thinking about you midwestern stewbies when I saw it on the news. They said because the harder rock and everything below . . . it was actually more forceful than the quakes they have in California. And you all hadn't had one like that since the early 1800s. Also . . . as you probably know . . . animals do sense things like that before humans. I am just glad everyone is okay. They say that we have a fault under the east coast that is worse than the west coast. I remember one back in the 70s that moved my grandparents' mobile home back an inch or so. They lived in northwest NC. My ex-husband moved to California for awhile after we separated. He said he had been drinking hard the night before , and was sitting on the privy during the early morning hours. He just thought, "Man, I must have drank too much last night, and went back to bed." He did not realize it until later when he awoke, but he was experiencing an earthquake while sitting on the john!
I have a friend at Conserve School, a boarding High School just across the lake. They are a collage prep high tech private school. My friend Paul is involved in Geology and is into high tech stuff. I received this E Mail from him this morning. Tom _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Hi- I just wanted to let you know that we picked up the morning's earthquake loud and clear on the Conserve School seismograph. We couldn't actually feel the quake, but our sensitive instrument felt it. The quake struck at 9:37 Universal time, and we began receiving the first seismic waves at 9:41. So the seismic waves were traveling at a velocity of around 5000 meters/second, which is typical. In case you are unaware, there is a link to the live seismograph data off the BOLROA site, so check on it whenever you like. Paul Read more about the Illinois quake here: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/rec ... 08qza6.php Paul McLeod 5400 N. Black Oak Lake Road Land O' Lakes, WI 54540 Paul.McLeod@ConserveSchool.org http://www.ConserveSchool.org/ Business Phone: 715-547-1356 http://www.LandOLakesHistory.org/
I was surprised to hear of it there, always think of EQs as being on the west coast. Glad it wasn't a very destructive one. My cats hate EQs too. The last one we had was a 6.8 and they went crazy.
Glad to hear you are all OK, we are STILL repairing things from the big Nisqually quake of, what, eight years ago? I don't much care for them either, we have them so infrequently that we all forget to strap things down and whatnot so small things always get broken. Anyone know of anywhere on the planet that doesn't have earthquakes or tornados or wildfires or floods or blizzards or drought or volcanos? Cuz we've had them all here and I must say I'm quite tired of them (she grumbles as she watches the latest snow on record falling on tender new plants)
Actually, there have been several earthquakes in Texas over the years. 1891 in Rusk 1917 in Panhandle 1931, a 6.4 in Valentine 1931 in Mexia 1948 in the panhandle area of Texas 1951 in Amarillo 1957 near Nacogdoches 1964, several thru the year near the Texas/Louisana border 1966 a 4.8 near Amarillo 1969 four small quakes in El Paso 1974 a 4.5 in the panhandle near Amarillo again.
