Earthquake?

[ND4SPD]

Hi :)

I'm just curious... on the 27th, around 3:47pm - did Illinois experience an earthquake? it would have been small - only a 3.0... (2.0 and below you can't feel and 4.0+ is definitely noticable)
anything show up in the news papers / tv / news / radio?

I found this cool little program that tracks all earthquake activity on the planet and was just curious if it actually works ;)
...Just wondering - i'm sure it was too small to make the news... but I got curious since it says one actually happend right there!

[Phantom]

Supposedly we had two earthquakes... the 3.something, and later a 2.something. However, both were in far southern IL, far away from most of us in Chicago area. So we never felt anything up here.

:) but its kinda cool to think we actually had an earthquake here... but kinda makes me wonder if the big Missouri one is coming...

[bensenvill]

yup phantoms right. There is a decent fault line in central IL [if I remember correctly], and I can remember 1 or 2 big news storys predicting a quake there [these are NOT new news storys].

I have always wanted to experience a earthquake. unfortuantely I doubt I will ever have the opportunity.

[Moraki]

I remember about 3-4 in my life that i accualy felt over here in Missouri. and Dont think your lil illinios will stay cute and small ... from what ive learned mid-plate techtonics has the highest potential for massive quakes ... because the dont move as often but when they do it can go crazy.

[jaged]

who let the canuk in?

there was one in IN that I remember years ago. I was at my grandparents, now my partents house, and saw the coffee cups that she had hanging up start swinging. Very strange

[bensenvill]

oh I dont doubt there will eventually be one in IL [I'm looking forward to it]. Its not going to get anywhere near chicago, so I am sitting pretty where I am.

[Phantom]

Actually, I don't have the exact numbers in front of me... but I read that of the top 10 most powerful earthquakes in the US... 3 of them were centered just south of St. Louis in Misourri... and 6 of the others were in alaska and maybe one was in california. and Doug is right... a mid-plate earthquake has the greatest potential... also from what I understand, the ground in the midwest is softer than that in California... so a 9.0 earthquake in southern MO will be felt by a much larger radius than in CA... it would be felt all the way in Chicago. Doug and I were talking about all this at Jason's house... how the last big one changed the track of the Mississippi river, and even caused it to flow backwards for a short period of time.

[Phantom]

Found it... here's my source.

http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/050210_earthquake_arkansas.html

It was an article from LiveScience regarding a Midwestern Earthquake. Its got the map I mentioned showing how a earthquake in New Madrid would be felt over a much larger radius than an equal earthquake in California. Its also got the listing of top 10 earthquakes... I was wrong... it was 7 alaskan earthquakes, 2 in Missouri, and 1 in California.

[ND4SPD]

Yep - I did a little searching around after what you said Reagan... it was more near St.Louis - but there WAS one there!
very cool. :)

i'm glad it was small though... as we've seen - earthquakes can be QUITE bad :cover:

[sonza68]

Amazingly it took a Canadian to tell me that there was an earthquake where I live. It must have been quite mild becausee I didn't feel anything.

[MetallicaCougs]

There was one here about 3 years a go that even made CNN. I think it was 6 something. New Madrid fault is in this area also. Apparently that fault is SUPPOSE to be bigger then the one in California.

[ND4SPD]

Originally posted by: sonza68
Amazingly it took a Canadian to tell me that there was an earthquake where I live. It must have been quite mild becausee I didn't feel anything.

Always gotta watch out for my buddy Tom! :biggrin:

[NorCalCoug]

Originally posted by: MetallicaCougs
There was one here about 3 years a go that even made CNN. I think it was 6 something. New Madrid fault is in this area also. Apparently that fault is SUPPOSE to be bigger then the one in California.

Except that we have about 2 dozen fault-lines in California. ;)

You won't feel a 3.anything. You might feel a 4 or a 5. A 6 you would probably start to feel. The richter scale for earthquakes is exponential in nature, so a 6.1 is much stronger than a 6.0 and much much weaker than a 6.2.

[BIGTIME41]

I live like 15 min from st. louis and didn't notice anything