Posted on 06/27/2004 11:23:20 PM PDT by arkady_renko
Hello! 1:15 AM hard shaking Central Illinois!
A_R
Nah, just Tipper finally opening the lockbox and having a big O. Al won't know what hit him when he gets home.
Al Gore insisting that he invented the earthquake.
If you zoom out on that map, it shows Ottawa directly north of Sandwich.
Oops..............Ottawa is directly SOUTH of Sandwich...........I need sleep!
Oh yeah that's exactly what those nice squiggly lines mean...
LOL, I was looking north and couldn't find it, I zoomed in at street level and panned north, still nothing. HAHA
Just cause you live near by or central to anything doesn't mean you will feel anything. Depends on a lot of things such as are you on the fault line, how secure your house foundation is, what the surrounding ground structure is like, what thype of quake it was....and on and on
"...how secure your house foundation is, what the surrounding ground structure is like..."
this does not bode well for my domicile :-(
Yeah runs by diagonal from about Dixon and between Sandwich and Ottawa. I think the last time it shook was in 1999 and most of the damage was in Dixon I believe.
I never knew it existed until tonight. One thing good about it is that is not very active and will not produce a quake over 5.0
Time to crash...
See post number 27 it has the info...and it looks like it was on the order of 4 not a biggie just enough to rile the animals
I didn't feel anything here in Schaumburg (NW suburb)
And I've been up all night...
George Bush's fault?
Yes, they will name it after him! The George Bush Fault! LOL!
Time for the J bolts to secure your stringers...works out here rather nicely...Just don't lock your brick chimney into the back wall structure it will take out the rest of the house and leave you with one standing chimney...(that's what my silly neighbor did just before the OCt 89 quake hit at Loma Prieta)...Strap your hot water heater to the wall studs...and always have a spare food and water kit. Know how to turn off the gas...Then you will be in good shape...;)
Different plates so not a fair comparison...DOesn't address things as mundane as population concentration...and we have no measure of how much undersea damage happened in the 06 quake cause that fault runs out to the Pacific....But what it should do is give everyone along the Mississippi a head's up to get their earthquake preparedness up to date on the QT
Ah just typical of certain types of quakes...first you hear the train and then it hits the house...smack...then you pick up the dishes, pet the animals that are going nuts, and go back to bed...lol
cool! wonder if that would help if we get a direct hit by a tornado (more likely out here, but you never know)
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