Magnitude 4.2 - INDIANA

USGS ^ | 12/30/2010 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Colts don't make playoffs?...................

[ErnBatavia]

Every time I hear about a shaker in the midwest, I picture thousands of old ladies picking up the knick knacks that adorn their chair rails, etc.

[FrogMom]

Be safe!

[Red Badger]

Did Notre Dame get a bowl game this year?................

[ruesrose]

Hah! This old lady would not be picking up knick-knacks. She would be mopping the floor.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

It was Gary, Indiana imploding.

[Whenifhow]

GREENTOWN, Ind. - Many Tri-State residents woke up to shaking Thursday morning after an earthquake in Indiana was felt around the region.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the epicenter of a 4.2 magnitude earthquake rumbled in Greentown, Ind. at 7:55 a.m.

Residents from multiple parts of the Tri-State reported feeling the earthquake, some as far south as Rabbit Hash, Ky.

Greentown is approximately 123 miles northwest of Cincinnati and 50 miles north of Indianapolis.

http://www.kypost.com/dpps/news/region_north_cincinnati/liberty_township/ind.-earthquake-felt-in-tri-state_5758125

regional map on the site

[Red Badger]

Maybe they are pulling away from Chicago......................

[sodpoodle]

Part of the New Madrid fault line?

[Vaquero]

not too far from New Madrid...

[Red Badger]

I don’t think so......

[MinuteGal]

I'm in a suburb about thirty miles due west of downtown Chicago. I was freeping when the computer started shaking, then my heavy computer chair began heavy trembling. Lasted 10-20 seconds. Gave me some dizziness and minor nausea for a few minutes after. It was scary, considering I'm on the top (fourth) floor of my condo building.

Leni

[Mr. Lucky]

Sure, you can joke if you want, but this is serious.

What more proof of global warming do you need?

[Red Badger]

It's close...........

[Red Badger]

Everything is related to “globaloney warming”, except the Sun................

[Red Badger]

[sodpoodle]

Found this:

THE NEW MADRID FAULT SYSTEM EXTENDS 120 MILES SOUTHWARD from the area of Charleston, Missouri, and Cairo, Illinois, through New Madrid and Caruthersville, following Interstate 55 to Blytheville and on down to Marked Tree, Arkansas. It crosses five state lines and cuts across the Mississippi River in three places and the Ohio River in two places.

http://www.scchealth.org/docs/ems/docs/prepare/newmadrid.html

[rintense]

And I picture the New Madrid Fault plunging the Tennessee Valley into utter chaos and destruction.

A major quake on the New Madrid fault will make a Cali quake look like a picnic.

[Red Badger]

From your link:

THE FAULT IS ACTIVE, AVERAGING MORE THAN 200 MEASURED EVENTS per YEAR (1.0 or more on the Richter scale), about 20 per month. Tremors large enough to be felt (2.5 - 3.0 on the Richter scale) are noted annually. Every 18 months the fault releases a shock of 4.0 or more, capable of local minor damage. The most recent registering 4.3 along the New Madrid Fault on Thanksgiving evening, 1996, which was felt by citizens in the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, Illinois and Mississippi. Magnitudes of 5.0 or greater occurring about once per decade, can do significant damage, and be felt in several states.

[glorgau]

I’m in Fort Wayne.

I felt a little rumbling and actually went down in the basement to see if the newly installed fireplace insert that I’d gotten wasn’t causing cracks in the chimney foundation. An earthquake makes me feel better.