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Earthquake in Midwest
My desk | DocCincy

Posted on 06/18/2002 10:57:37 AM PDT by DocCincy

Earthquake in Midwest....


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: earthquake; midwest; ohio
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To: DocCincy
Rush is not on the air today, maybe he's back in the home town and dropped his wallet? ;-)

Stay safe!

21 posted on 06/18/2002 11:06:59 AM PDT by StriperSniper
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To: DocCincy
you got a 4.4 (at the site of event)...
I got to feel a 4.2 here in Los Angeles about six months ago.
I was outside; felt like the earth had been picked up about six inches, then dropped
back onto bedrock (and did it a second time as well).
And I looked up and large plate glass windows were bowing in and out from the quake.
22 posted on 06/18/2002 11:07:24 AM PDT by VOA
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To: DocCincy
Weird. What the heck is going on?
23 posted on 06/18/2002 11:07:45 AM PDT by Born in a Rage
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To: Semper Paratus
It's isn't really the New Madrid FAULT, per se; for one thing, the whole business is buried under thousands of feet of sediment, and you can't see anything at the surface, as you can in California; more properly termed the New Madrid Seismic ZONE. Probably a system of many parallel faults.

This is close enough to that to be considered in the New Madrid Seismic Zone.

As usual when we have a non-California lower 48 earthquake, I suspect we'll see Californians expressing surprise at the degree of shaking reported at great distances; California is SO fractured quakes don't propagate very far; a 5.0 in the Midwest can cause the same shaking 300 miles away that a 5.0 in California does 50 miles away.

24 posted on 06/18/2002 11:09:03 AM PDT by John H K
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To: Born in a Rage
What did the president know, and when did he know it?
25 posted on 06/18/2002 11:09:07 AM PDT by DocCincy
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To: da_toolman
did you feel it move?
26 posted on 06/18/2002 11:09:18 AM PDT by Atsilvquodi
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To: Born in a Rage
Weird. What the heck is going on?

Global Warming.

27 posted on 06/18/2002 11:09:29 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat
global wiggling.
28 posted on 06/18/2002 11:10:17 AM PDT by Atsilvquodi
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To: StriperSniper
Nope. That would have been a much larger quake than a 5.0.
29 posted on 06/18/2002 11:10:22 AM PDT by Freemyland
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To: DocCincy
I felt something in Decatur, IL. I thought it was a train or something at the airport at the time.
30 posted on 06/18/2002 11:10:57 AM PDT by Ford Fairlane
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To: Born in a Rage
"Was it a big one...anything fall off the wall?"

It's not a big one if something falls off the wall, it's a BIG ONE when the wall itself falls!

31 posted on 06/18/2002 11:11:38 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Born in a Rage
The last time we had an earthquake here, my cat was acting strangely for a few hours preceeding the movement. So far, this cat is calm. I always said that I would use my pets as a barometer for earthquake after that incident.
32 posted on 06/18/2002 11:12:15 AM PDT by Conservababe
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To: DocCincy
Preliminary Earthquake Report

Magnitude 4.4

Time Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at 17:37:32 (UTC)

Distance from 2 km (1 miles) S (178 degrees) of Brookport, IL

4 km (3 miles) NNE (12 degrees) of Paducah, KY

8 km (5 miles) ENE (58 degrees) of Concord, KY

129 km (80 miles) WNW (299 degrees) of Clarksville, TN

Coordinates 37 deg. 6.5 min. N (37.108N)

88 deg. 37.6 min. W ( 88.626W)

Depth 4.2 km (2.6 miles)

Quality Poor

33 posted on 06/18/2002 11:13:22 AM PDT by #1CTYankee
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To: DocCincy
Well jeez, with all of the terrorist warnings nowadays....
A couple of months ago I got to feel the northeast earthquake. Something seismic is going on that's for sure.
34 posted on 06/18/2002 11:13:25 AM PDT by Born in a Rage
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To: John H K
That probably explains why I didn't feel it here in SoCal. Hope all is well. Go Simon!!
35 posted on 06/18/2002 11:13:41 AM PDT by RGF
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To: DocCincy
Oh, that might have been me. I had burritos for lunch.
36 posted on 06/18/2002 11:14:03 AM PDT by Timesink
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To: VOA
We just had a 6.5 down here in Chile...only 60 miles from where I am...a real rocker-1
37 posted on 06/18/2002 11:14:12 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: Constitution Day
It is listed....click on the red square ....it says it was a 4.4...
38 posted on 06/18/2002 11:14:12 AM PDT by Dog
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To: DocCincy
Jesse Ventura announced he's not running for election. You must be feeling the aftershock.
39 posted on 06/18/2002 11:14:41 AM PDT by brbethke
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To: John H K
"a 5.0 in the Midwest can cause the same shaking 300 miles away that a 5.0 in California does 50 miles away."

What are you talking about. I have never felt a 5.0 50 miles away. 30 miles, yes, but never 50. ; )

40 posted on 06/18/2002 11:16:15 AM PDT by Ladybug1
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