Illinois Earthquake Overnight

Jeanne Hedge wrote:
Did anyone else feel the earthquake in Illinois overnight? It happened
at 1:10 AM this morning, and was measured at 4.5, preliminary
epicenter about 8 miles northwest of Ottawa, Illinois (about 75 miles
west of Chicago). This is a fairly large earthquake for this part of
the country (snip)
Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha

http://www.jhedge.com

Just talked to my long-lost (thankfully found) love G. He was right near
Chicago at a campground when this happened but didn't feel anything. Good;
he doesn't need the added stress. It's bad enough having to haul a** 600
miles to the next art show without being awakened by an earthquake

Jill

jmcquown wrote:

Jeanne Hedge wrote:
Did anyone else feel the earthquake in Illinois overnight? It happened
at 1:10 AM this morning, and was measured at 4.5, preliminary
epicenter about 8 miles northwest of Ottawa, Illinois (about 75 miles
west of Chicago). This is a fairly large earthquake for this part of
the country - we just don't get quakes you can feel around here, just
tornadoes and floods ^_^


I was awake at the time, sitting in my recliner, thinking about going
to bed. A neighbor banged out of their apartment, door slamming and
all, and at first I thought my apartment was shaking because of that.
Then my brain kicked in and realized things had been rattling and
shaking too long for that to be the cause. By the time I thought to
look and see if my hanging lamps were swaying, it was over.

After a hard evening's napping, my mistress, Natasha, woke up and
stared at me as if to ask me to make the shaking stop. I guess she
didn't feel it coming

If you go to this website

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_kgad.html

you can see information about it. There's even a place to report your
first-hand experience to the US Geological Survey, and another place
that summarizes these first-hand observations in several different
ways. Kind of neat

Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha

http://www.jhedge.com

Oh *Great*! This means we're bound to get hit down here in Memphis. You're
on the New Madrid fault which runs from Cairo, Illinois down to Marked Tree,
Arkansas. We are way past due for another quake.

Last time we had one was 1976 and measured a 5.0 - the epicenter was about
150 miles to the northwest and it still managed to crack the cement
foundation of my parents' house. Mom was out of town attending a funeral
and she thought we were joking when we called her to inform her the earth
had moved (and not in the way Carole King sang about).

Glad to hear Natasha is such a good quake detector! (giggling) Your comment
about the hanging lamps reminded me - when the one happened down here I was
walking down the hallway towards my bedroom. I was jolted to the side and
grabbed onto the doorframe for support. Noticed my bedside lamp was doing a
funny little shimmy. That's what it hit me - damn, we're having an
earthquake!

The only thing we aren't prone to here in the Memphis area is hurricanes; my
folks now live off the coast of SC and they can have my share of those.
Glad it appears there was no major damage or loss of life.

Jill

You just jinxed yourself. Hurricane on the way.

Bob
--
Takeoff is an option.
Landing is a must!


And in the end on wheels we will depend.

jmcquown wrote:

Jeanne Hedge wrote:
Did anyone else feel the earthquake in Illinois overnight? It happened
at 1:10 AM this morning, and was measured at 4.5, preliminary
epicenter about 8 miles northwest of Ottawa, Illinois (about 75 miles
west of Chicago). This is a fairly large earthquake for this part of
the country - we just don't get quakes you can feel around here, just
tornadoes and floods ^_^


I was awake at the time, sitting in my recliner, thinking about going
to bed. A neighbor banged out of their apartment, door slamming and
all, and at first I thought my apartment was shaking because of that.
Then my brain kicked in and realized things had been rattling and
shaking too long for that to be the cause. By the time I thought to
look and see if my hanging lamps were swaying, it was over.

After a hard evening's napping, my mistress, Natasha, woke up and
stared at me as if to ask me to make the shaking stop. I guess she
didn't feel it coming

If you go to this website

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_kgad.html

you can see information about it. There's even a place to report your
first-hand experience to the US Geological Survey, and another place
that summarizes these first-hand observations in several different
ways. Kind of neat

Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha

http://www.jhedge.com

Oh *Great*! This means we're bound to get hit down here in Memphis. You're
on the New Madrid fault which runs from Cairo, Illinois down to Marked Tree,
Arkansas. We are way past due for another quake.

Last time we had one was 1976 and measured a 5.0 - the epicenter was about
150 miles to the northwest and it still managed to crack the cement
foundation of my parents' house. Mom was out of town attending a funeral
and she thought we were joking when we called her to inform her the earth
had moved (and not in the way Carole King sang about).

Glad to hear Natasha is such a good quake detector! (giggling) Your comment
about the hanging lamps reminded me - when the one happened down here I was
walking down the hallway towards my bedroom. I was jolted to the side and
grabbed onto the doorframe for support. Noticed my bedside lamp was doing a
funny little shimmy. That's what it hit me - damn, we're having an
earthquake!

The only thing we aren't prone to here in the Memphis area is hurricanes; my
folks now live off the coast of SC and they can have my share of those.
Glad it appears there was no major damage or loss of life.

Jill

You just jinxed yourself. Hurricane on the way.

Bob
--
Takeoff is an option.
Landing is a must!


And in the end on wheels we will depend.

Jeanne Hedge had some very interesting things to say
about Illinois Earthquake Overnight:

Did anyone else feel the earthquake in Illinois overnight? It happened
at 1:10 AM this morning, and was measured at 4.5, preliminary
epicenter about 8 miles northwest of Ottawa, Illinois (about 75 miles
west of Chicago). This is a fairly large earthquake for this part of
the country - we just don't get quakes you can feel around here, just
tornadoes and floods ^_^

Be thankful you weren't in southeastern Alaska. They had a 6.7 this
morning. I'm too far south to have felt that one and too far west for
yours. :-)

Glad you and Natasha are OK. When we had a big guy [about 6.5, IIRC]
about 90 miles away last December, Felix sulked all evening.

--
"Don't mess with major appliances unless you know what you are doing
(or unless your life insurance policy is up-to-date)." - John, RCFL

Jeanne Hedge had some very interesting things to say
about Illinois Earthquake Overnight:

Did anyone else feel the earthquake in Illinois overnight? It happened
at 1:10 AM this morning, and was measured at 4.5, preliminary
epicenter about 8 miles northwest of Ottawa, Illinois (about 75 miles
west of Chicago). This is a fairly large earthquake for this part of
the country - we just don't get quakes you can feel around here, just
tornadoes and floods ^_^

Be thankful you weren't in southeastern Alaska. They had a 6.7 this
morning. I'm too far south to have felt that one and too far west for
yours. :-)

Glad you and Natasha are OK. When we had a big guy [about 6.5, IIRC]
about 90 miles away last December, Felix sulked all evening.

--
"Don't mess with major appliances unless you know what you are doing
(or unless your life insurance policy is up-to-date)." - John, RCFL

Jeanne Hedge had some very interesting things to say
about Illinois Earthquake Overnight:

Local news in Chicago is reporting that we get about 1 earthquake a
year, and usually can't feel it. People were really surprised this
morning, though a Californian would probably laugh at all the fuss

Well, smile a little, anyway. I personally really hate quakes [I'm not
a native Californian, I'm an Oregonian who lives in California], but
DH [who grew up in California] probably doesn't think a 4.5 is even
worth discussing. :-)

--
"Don't mess with major appliances unless you know what you are doing
(or unless your life insurance policy is up-to-date)." - John, RCFL

Jeanne Hedge had some very interesting things to say
about Illinois Earthquake Overnight:

Local news in Chicago is reporting that we get about 1 earthquake a
year, and usually can't feel it. People were really surprised this
morning, though a Californian would probably laugh at all the fuss

Well, smile a little, anyway. I personally really hate quakes [I'm not
a native Californian, I'm an Oregonian who lives in California], but
DH [who grew up in California] probably doesn't think a 4.5 is even
worth discussing. :-)

--
"Don't mess with major appliances unless you know what you are doing
(or unless your life insurance policy is up-to-date)." - John, RCFL

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:03:34 -0700, Seanette Blaylock
wrote:

Jeanne Hedge had some very interesting things to say
about Illinois Earthquake Overnight:

Did anyone else feel the earthquake in Illinois overnight? It happened
at 1:10 AM this morning, and was measured at 4.5, preliminary
epicenter about 8 miles northwest of Ottawa, Illinois (about 75 miles
west of Chicago). This is a fairly large earthquake for this part of
the country - we just don't get quakes you can feel around here, just
tornadoes and floods ^_^

Be thankful you weren't in southeastern Alaska. They had a 6.7 this
morning. I'm too far south to have felt that one and too far west for
yours. :-)

Glad you and Natasha are OK. When we had a big guy [about 6.5, IIRC]
about 90 miles away last December, Felix sulked all evening.


I saw the news about a 7.0 off the Alaskan coast on the USGS site thie
morning. They've downgraded it (some downgrade!) to 6.7? WAY too much
earthquake to think about!



Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha

http://www.jhedge.com

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:03:34 -0700, Seanette Blaylock
wrote:

Jeanne Hedge had some very interesting things to say
about Illinois Earthquake Overnight:

Did anyone else feel the earthquake in Illinois overnight? It happened
at 1:10 AM this morning, and was measured at 4.5, preliminary
epicenter about 8 miles northwest of Ottawa, Illinois (about 75 miles
west of Chicago). This is a fairly large earthquake for this part of
the country - we just don't get quakes you can feel around here, just
tornadoes and floods ^_^

Be thankful you weren't in southeastern Alaska. They had a 6.7 this
morning. I'm too far south to have felt that one and too far west for
yours. :-)

Glad you and Natasha are OK. When we had a big guy [about 6.5, IIRC]
about 90 miles away last December, Felix sulked all evening.


I saw the news about a 7.0 off the Alaskan coast on the USGS site thie
morning. They've downgraded it (some downgrade!) to 6.7? WAY too much
earthquake to think about!



Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha

http://www.jhedge.com

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 06:38:01 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:

Jeanne Hedge wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 05:56:55 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:

Oh *Great*! This means we're bound to get hit down here in Memphis.
You're on the New Madrid fault which runs from Cairo, Illinois down
to Marked Tree, Arkansas. We are way past due for another quake.

Yeah, my parents in southern Indiana actually have an earthquake rider
on their homeowner's insurance, in case the New Madrid goes off. But I
don't think this morning's quake was on that same fault line.

Yeah, I have a $5,000 earthquake deductible on my rental insurance because
of where I live. For anything else, it's just $500 Still pretty cheap
considering if an earthquake destroyed my dwelling I'd have full replacement
cost on everything. I'm not sure what other faults run around this part of
the US. The NM is the biggest.

News says this morning's northern Illinois quake was on the Sandwich
Fault. Sandwich is a small town in eastern DeKalb County, Illinois,
east of today's epicenter and west of Chicago.


Being in Memphis, which is Elvis country, I wrote an article called "All
Shook Up" back in the 1980's about earthquake preparedness. It was
published in a newsletter my then employer sent out to members. Your
neighbor did the right thing by banging out the door; it's best to clear out
of a building. I did the right thing by hanging onto a door frame, second
best thing (a reinforced area).

I don't think my neighbor was fleeing the quake. He bangs doors when
he leaves regardless of time of day. You'd think he'd be a little more
considerate as we're in an apartment building, but I guess not.

Anyway, his banging the door and the earth beginning to move at the
same time seem to be total coincidence to me


If you live in an earthquake zone, DO NOT hang paintings, mirrors, etc.
above your sofa or bed. That's a big no-no. Bookshelves should be secured
to walls with metal brackets. Stay away from brick walls and fireplaces
which may crumble. Fun facts for living

A friend of mine from Taiwan (many earthquakes) tells me stories of
how she had nothing hanging on the walls or ceiling near her bed when
she was a kid because her family was afraid of something falling on
them during an overnight quake.




Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha

http://www.jhedge.com