A block and a half from my house - April 20, 2004 Utica tornado. This is the building where 8 people died. A lot of well built homes were destroyed while some mobile homes were left intact. Go figure.
A_R
Posted on 06/27/2004 11:23:20 PM PDT by arkady_renko
Hello! 1:15 AM hard shaking Central Illinois!
A_R
1. Tipper, th'teeth, aahhh, teeth, oowww...
2. Bill's old podiums are a hoot, ohhh doggie!
3. I am woman, watch me roar...
I think you just sandwiched....you?
FYI
Not the local fault line here.
Sweet Dreams;*)
Thanks, California, for not laughing at our little 4.5--
;-) Hope it was not bad and everyone is OK.
Actually the best thing for tornadoes has always been the old tried and true storm cellar...that solid bit of basement that is sufficiently underground to be protected when the house goes off to Oz...I know I was in Topeka during the deadly one there...Not sure there is much to help out in those...the other stuff works for earthquakes cause they tend to shear
I experienced a 7.9 nov 3rd up here in alaska; year and half back. Opened up 5 foot deep gouges in my front yard and had 6.0 aftershocks about a dozen times a day for a month or so. If you haven't had all your gas, oil, and water lines rupture. Your well head blow off with an 8 foot geyser for an hour from the artesian effect. Had your china closet about land on top of ya on your way out the door and have all of your possessions 3 foot deep throughout the house; how do you even know it was a good shaker? Lucky I lived in a log cabin. The good side was once I got out side and gained my balance and started listening to all the intense rumbling from all the mountain valleys and rockslides; I looked at my wife and realized how much I really, really, really loved that women. No joke.
Felt nothing here in Connecticut...
I didn't feel a thing in southern St. Clair County; I was asleep.
We are 100 miles south west of Chicago. Police calling it an earthquake...
You know you're sitting on top of one of the largest natural gas reservoirs in the midwest, right? Peoples Gas (among others) pump the stuff into the ground from Urbana-Champaign to Bloomington for storage.
I felt it! A gentle rocking motion.
Glad it was a little for yall who live there.
Or maybe just my spouse taking her usual early AM trot to the potty.
It's so hard to tell sometimes...
I'm in West Chicago (western DuPage Co) and it woke me up. Everything was shaking and the dog was snorting. Because of being in plenty of previous quakes in other countries, I knew immediately what it was. Then I just went back to sleep. :)
Magnitude 4.5 earthquake rattles windows as it strikes parts of Midwest
By F.N. D'ALESSIO
The Associated Press
6/28/2004, 7:48 a.m. ET
CHICAGO (AP) — A brief earthquake struck the Midwest early Monday, rattling windows and awakening sleeping residents from Wisconsin and south to Missouri and from southwest Michigan and Indiana west to Iowa.
No injuries were reported from the quake, which occurred about 2:11 a.m. EDT.
The earthquake also was felt lightly in southwest Michigan, according to information posted on the U.S Geographical Survey Web site. The USGS had reports of the earthquake being felt in Buchanan, Berrien Springs, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph and Niles.
Brian Lassige, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado, said the quake was magnitude 4.5, and its epicenter was about eight miles northwest of Ottawa in northern Illinois, close to the small village of Troy Grove. The rural area is about 70 miles west of Chicago.
Initial reports indicated no major damage from the temblor, although police agencies and radio stations within the quake area were inundated with telephone calls.
"It was mayhem around here for a while," said Pattie Burke, a dispatcher for the Ottawa Police. "We had more than 200 calls from residents in a short period of time, all of them wanting to know what had happened. A lot of them seemed to think a truck had crashed into their house.
"Here in the station, it felt like an aircraft was about to crash right here."
The quake was felt at three nuclear power plants in Illinois: Quad Cities, LaSalle and Dresden.
Craig Nesbit, a spokesman for the Exelon Corp., which owns the three generating stations, said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission declared an "unusual alert" for all of them, although there appeared to be no damage.
"All of them were operating 100 percent, and no problems were reported, but we did a check of all safety systems," Nesbit said.
Nesbit said the three stations supply electrical power for several million Illinois residents.
Reports of the shaking came from at least as far east as Valparaiso, Ind., and as far west as the Quad Cities, and from Wisconsin in the north to the St. Louis area in the south.
Gary Spaulding of Marseilles, Ill., said he was relaxing in his mobile home when the quake struck.
"It was like somebody shot off dynamite," said Spaulding, who added that his cat leaped out of his lap and would still not come near him two hours later. "I thought maybe a tree hit my trailer."
Joe Knapp of Delafield, Wis., just west of Milwaukee, said he was asleep and awoke when the bed began shaking. "Everything was just rolling back and forth," Knapp said.
There were some reports on the radio this AM of it being felt in E Iowa (Cedar and Jones counties, at least).
I felt the shaking, too. I lived in California for a little while. It was definitely an earthquake.
Felt it in Lombard. There was a low rumble accompanying...
A block and a half from my house - April 20, 2004 Utica tornado. This is the building where 8 people died. A lot of well built homes were destroyed while some mobile homes were left intact. Go figure.
A_R
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