EARTHQUAKE - Illinois?!

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[arkady_renko]

Hello! 1:15 AM hard shaking Central Illinois!

A_R

[Redcloak]

You win the Kewpie doll. It's being called a 4.5 by the USGS

[stlnative]

Wow... I am shocked that I did not feel this! (What IL town was the center of it in?)

[eastforker]

There must be.

[longfellow]

I thought I was nuts!

[Cultural Jihad]

A 4.5 is a respectable quake.

[kpp_kpp]

Magnitude: 4.5

Date-Time:
Monday, June 28, 2004 at 06:10:51 (UTC)
Monday, June 28, 2004 at 1:10:51 AM (local)

Location: 41.436°N, 88.952°W
Depth: 5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program
Region: ILLINOIS
Distances:
11 km (7 miles) ESE (107°) from Troy Grove, IL
11 km (7 miles) NNE (25°) from North Utica, IL
13 km (8 miles) NNW (332°) from Naplate, IL
13 km (8 miles) NW (317°) from Ottawa, IL
65 km (40 miles) WSW (237°) from Aurora, IL
115 km (71 miles) WSW (247°) from Chicago, IL

Location Uncertainty:
horizontal +/- 8 km (5.0 miles);
depth fixed by location program

Parameters:
Nst= 26, Nph= 26, Dmin=196 km, Rmss=1.2 sec, Gp=108°,
M-type="Nuttli" surface wave magnitude (MLg), Version=6

Source: U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
Event ID: uskgad

[Cultural Jihad]

Looks like "Ottawa" was the nearest town, just NW of that town.

[arkady_renko]

Thanks, I'll do that. Here is a map of the epi-center. Pretty close to my house...

A_R

[illini20]

My house shook in Arlington Heights, IL. Creepy.

[Ichneumon]

Looks like the folks in Raleigh, TN need to get their seismograph out from under the freeway:

[MamaLucci]

Well, the locusts are coming.....:)
Uticans must really be wondering about the "end times".
Our neighbor mentioned that he thought it was
an earthquake, but my hubby and I sure thought
it felt like an explosion. Of course, we were sound asleep when it hit.

[piasa]

We just had a tornado here, wonder when we get the locusts and the frogs...

Call up your local Democrat HQ... they should be able to tell you when Kerry and his Francophile entourage are making their next visit.

[eldoradude]

Just NW of Ottawa, near Joliet, looks like a 4+

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Maps/US2/40.42.-90.-88.html

[stlnative]

Can you have the mod change the title of thread to 4.5 Quake in Northern IL?

New Madrid does not go up that far does it? (I guess it is time to do some research) - This blows me away!

[dts32041]

8 Miles north of Ottawa. WBBM AM Radio Reporting.

[Graybeard58]

Looks to be centered in Ottawa and I am about 90 miles south of Ottawa and felt nothing at all.

[RonHolzwarth]

GEEEEZZZZ,,, it was only a 4.5!

The only thing that is unusual about a small tremblor like this is that it is not on a knows fault line.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Maps/US2/40.42.-90.-88.html

[Jape]

sounds like the energy moved northward - why you didn't feel a thing and green bay did

[Watery Tart]

"probabable seismic activity"

I'm wondering if it's safe to take that shower yet.... ;o)

[longfellow]

I am in Aurora, I just moved from CA 2 years ago. So I know what an earthquake feels like, Like a NY subway ride.