EARTHQUAKE!

[Catmom]

Date: 4/18/2008 11:29:43 AM
Author: Starset Princess
Anyone else feel the ''aftershock'' about 10 minutes ago?

I didn''t feel anything but I did hear some "rattling", enough so that it caused me to look up from the computer several times to see what was making that noise.

 

[Love in Bloom]

Date: 4/18/2008 12:08:36 PM
Author: coatimundi
Whoa! I didn''t know earthquakes happened in the Midwest!

Me neither

. While I did not feel the aftershock, I did notice some rattling. This is too weird.

 

[Elmorton]

Ugh! I missed the aftershock, too. I walked into my class and asked my students if anyone felt it - since they typically don''t watch the news or listen to the radio on their way to campus, a lot of them had felt it but thought they were absolutely crazy and didn''t know what it was!

 

[krisvrn]

Hi Ellen - I briefly woke up and felt the earthquake but later on I was sitting at work around 10:15ish and I felt the after-shock, it was around 4.7 on the scale.
I am located in the suburbs of W. St.Louis.

 

[Mara]

hehe welcome to California...minus the high prices!!!!!

i never get outta bed or move for anything under a 6.0 hehehee. product of my environment.

 

[sunnyd]

I think they're fun too...what is wrong with me...

Mara, did you ever see Independance Day? One of my favorite scenes was when Will Smith said 'it's not even a 5.0' or something like that. As in, no need to wake up, go back to bed. You silly Californians...

 

[Linda W]

Ellen,

Like Mara said, you should live in California. tee hee. I bet it scared you!!

Linda

 

[Erin]

Date: 4/18/2008 2:48:32 PM
Author: Mara
hehe welcome to California...minus the high prices!!!!!

i never get outta bed or move for anything under a 6.0 hehehee. product of my environment.

You sound like Linda Evangelista...

 

[Ellen]

Date: 4/18/2008 1:56:21 PM
Author: krisvrn
Hi Ellen - I briefly woke up and felt the earthquake but later on I was sitting at work around 10:15ish and I felt the after-shock, it was around 4.7 on the scale.
I am located in the suburbs of W. St.Louis.

Hey neighbor.

I missed the aftershock. *pouts*


Linda, it really didn''t scare me. After the initial "wtf is going on", I just sat there thinking how cool it was.

Of course it was just about over by then.


I read an article earlier, wish I''d saved it. But it was saying something about the earths crust being older in the midwest, so when we have an earthquake, it resonates much farther than ones in CA.

 

[monarch64]

We didn''t feel anything! I inspected the walls to see if pictures were hanging crooked or anything, but they weren''t. Not a peep out of the dogs, unless I just didn''t hear them, and they didn''t act strange yesterday or today...

 

[Linda W]

Ellen

I will NEVER forget that horrid one here, in Calif, in 1989. OMG, Rick, my hubby, was working in S.F. He had to drive through the holes in S.F. and the crumbled buildings and across one of the bridges.

At first my daughter and I were nauseated and didn''t know why and our dogs (now deceased) were barking and running all over the house. Then it hit. Our pool looked like an ocean, water slopping out all over.

We live an hour out of San Francisco, so we didn''t feel it as hard as the Bay Area did. I was never so glad to see my husband, as I was when he pulled in our driveway.

Linda

 

[Harriet]

Date: 4/18/2008 11:44:33 AM
Author: Dee*Jay
I''m so glad you posted this Ellen because I was beginning to think I am crazy! (We''ll, OK, maybe that''s a broader topic... ) They are building a grocery store a few blocks from me and when they were pounding the pilons (sp?) into the ground it felt a lot like this so when I first woke up that''s what I thought it was, but then I thought, why on earth would they be doing construciton at this hour?

Didn''t feel the aftershock though...

Glad you''re all safe.

 

[Ellen]

Date: 4/18/2008 4:56:32 PM
Author: Linda W
Ellen

I will NEVER forget that horrid one here, in Calif, in 1989. OMG, Rick, my hubby, was working in S.F. He had to drive through the holes in S.F. and the crumbled buildings and across one of the bridges.

At first my daughter and I were nauseated and didn''t know why and our dogs (now deceased) were barking and running all over the house. Then it hit. Our pool looked like an ocean, water slopping out all over.

We live an hour out of San Francisco, so we didn''t feel it as hard as the Bay Area did. I was never so glad to see my husband, as I was when he pulled in our driveway.

Linda

That one was horrible, even from a distance.

And that''s what they''ve been telling us for years we''re due for, that, or worse...

 

[Skippy123]

Date: 4/18/2008 8:29:28 AM
Author: Love in Bloom
Ellen, are you in Illinois?

It is kinda scary but still funny at the same time. Never expected an earthquake that 'quakey' in the midwest. That is funny about thinking your hubby was shaking the bed, there were a whole bunch of people interviewed on our local news who thought their SOs were trying to play tricks on them!

That is funny!

 

[tiffanytwisted]

I live in St Louis and I slept through it too!

Date: 4/18/2008 8:47:58 AM
Author: Catmom
Uh, I slept through it!

 

[Ellen]

Date: 4/18/2008 10:31:45 PM
Author: tiffanytwisted
I live in St Louis and I slept through it too!

Date: 4/18/2008 8:47:58 AM
Author: Catmom
Uh, I slept through it!

Apparently I might have too. I "thought" the shaking of the bed woke me up, but I found out later in talking to my hubby that he had shaken me awake. I guess he didn''t want me to miss it.

 

[Mara]

haha re: the Will Smith reference, I totally remember that...and that's mostly how CA natives are. after years and years of them, you kind of just take stock before doing anything. the last one we had was like a 6 maybe and i was in the car sitting waiting for Greg to pick up our In n'Out burgers. i thought, gosh is my foot not on the brake or what. and then i thought...hmm that's not me. and then i looked around, and everyone was kind of looking around too. And then you are like OH it's an earthquake. at that point I was like eh I'm outside...not under a light or anything. Where am I going to go? Portia was just looking at me. so much for the dog's sensory abilities thing, she was practically yawning.

i joke around and say that instead of geography in classes, CA kids are taught earthquake preparation. i am horrible with geography.

They say that we have a ton of mini earthquakes a day around here, and we just can't feel them. But they also say that's good because it keeps the pressure from building up and rupturing into a big massive one. So I'm okay with a bunch of small ones vs one humongo one. The 1989 one was horrible for sure.

 

[sera]

Date: 4/18/2008 2:48:32 PM
Author: Mara
hehe welcome to California...minus the high prices!!!!!

i never get outta bed or move for anything under a 6.0 hehehee. product of my environment.

LOL... I know! When I heard how small it was I was like whatever (though I do understand the difference in geology influences how the quake is felt). But, everything is relative right? To a Californian, under a 6.0 quake is small, but a 65 degree temp is Parka and Ugg boots weather!

But seriously, since it was mentioned about "running into a doorway," I wanted to say that is not recommended. Imagine hard enough shaking to slam that door into you! Besides that, most modern homes are built in a way that doesn''t make the doorway any stronger than other places. If you''re inside, stay inside, away from windows... duck and cover under something sturdy and hold on (even sturdy tables can move around).

 

[Linda W]

Eons ago when I was in school, we were taught to get under a sturdy table and HANG ON.

Linda

 

[Ellen]

Missed this one. Ok, that's enough, it can quit now.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/04/21/illinois.quake/index.html




(CNN) -- A 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook southern Illinois early Monday, the latest in a string of quakes that have rattled the region since last week, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The quake -- the 18th since a magnitude 5.2 hit the area Friday morning -- was centered about six miles below ground and about 37 miles (60 km) north-northwest of Evansville, Indiana, or about 131 miles (211 km) east of St. Louis.

 

[Ellen]

Ah, an uplifting article just posted on Yahoo.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080418/sc_livescience/scientistsevenbiggerquakecouldhitmidwest

 

[Love in Bloom]

Date: 4/21/2008 7:51:11 AM
Author: Ellen

Missed this one. Ok, that''s enough, it can quit now.

Thanks for the links Ellen. I didn''t feel this one at all. Oh vey, the statement "...aftershocks could continue for months at this strange seismic zone at the nation''s center and even trigger another big quake, a geophysicist said" keeps ringing in my head

 

[Ellen]

Love, I know. That second article made me do this --->

 

[HollyS]

Ellen:

Have you lived in IL long enough that you were there for the 1968 quake? I was 9 at the time. Maybe it will be another 40 years before the next big shake!

 

[Ellen]

Holly, born and raised here, but I was only 8 at the time, so I have no memory of it. I really HOPE it''s at least another 40 years before we have a big one. It is not encourasging to read that the same level of quake that hit SF in 89 would be way worse here...