[Dengar01]

Well I've never been in an earthquake luckily, So I have to sit here in Illinois worrying about my grandparents in Simi Valley. I'm watching Fox 11 LA on DirecTV and watching the Earthquake report, it's 12:33AM here in Chicago, but it looks like it is minor.

[dpwiener]

So I have to sit here in Illinois worrying about my grandparents in Simi Valley.

Don't worry about them. Nothing even fell over in our house.

[ZGuy]

12 quakes so far total. No power outages. I'm about 2 miles from the epicenters for the Simi Valley quakes so we even got a ride from the 2.3 quake that just hit a few minutes ago.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Don't be so sure you won't experience an earthquake just because you live in Chicago! Check out post 197 for a bit about the New Madrid fault and the biggest earthquake in the history of America. I read an article in the L. A. Times years ago about this very subject, and how an even moderate quake would devastate places like Chicago. There’s too much unreinforced masonry, and absolutely no earthquake building standards.