Southern Illinois Earthquake

[Jenny_Jackson]

What did it record on your "give-a-fuck-o-meter"?

Nothing. I really don't give a fuck

 

[Trinique_Fire]

Whoa...I wonder if my family felt it in Chicago/Oak Park!

 

[3113]

Hope everyone's okay!

Funny. I was in Chicago some years ago, and I was in this hotel...the bar was fancy with huge windows. Against these windows were long, thin shelves--stretching end-to-end, one-atop-another, each supporting a single line of elegant bottles. The whole idea was the light to shine thought the vast, picture windows and illuminate all those bottles of liquor, top to bottom, side to side, and everyone to go "wow!"

The only thought that came to my mind whenever I walked into that bar was, "They're screwed if there's an Earthquake."

So. You say it was felt as far as Chicago?

Likewise, remembering all those brick buildings in that part of the U.S....I have to wonder what else might have fallen down. Brick and mortar do not stand up well to an earthquake.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Hope everyone's okay!

Funny. I was in Chicago some years ago, and I was in this hotel...the bar was fancy with huge windows. Against these windows were long, thin shelves--stretching end-to-end, one-atop-another, each supporting a single line of elegant bottles. The whole idea was the light to shine thought the vast, picture windows and illuminate all those bottles of liquor, top to bottom, side to side, and everyone to go "wow!"

The only thought that came to my mind whenever I walked into that bar was, "They're screwed if there's an Earthquake."

So. You say it was felt as far as Chicago?

Likewise, remembering all those brick buildings in that part of the U.S....I have to wonder what else might have fallen down. Brick and mortar do not stand up well to an earthquake.

It dawned on me that there's not really a single place in our house where you can stand without something falling on you. We didn't have any damage that I can see around here, but some people in St. Louis were reporting falling bricks and broken windows.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Yikes, you guys, aftershocks and everything!

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I slept like a baby last night...didn't feel a thing.

House still standing, nothing fell...although my rotty - Rudy - did not want to come in last night. Had to drag his ass in the house.

Come to think of it the other two seemed a little on edge last night too. I wonder?

 

[S-Des]

Whoa...I wonder if my family felt it in Chicago/Oak Park!

Doubtful. I was awake and quietly watching TV and didn't feel anything. I'm far South Side (30 miles south of Chicago) and had no idea anything happened until I heard it on TV. Also, our dog didn't do anything. Perhaps it was mostly felt in more of a direction? They claimed people in Milwaukee felt it, but there was nothing here. I can't believe the first earthquake in my life, and I totally missed it.

Good job with the history, Tx. I've seen several science shows that claim the biggest quake coming will happen here, not on the West coast. It also seems to be on a 150-200 year clock, so the next one may happen in my lifetime.

 

[Katyusha]

So. You say it was felt as far as Chicago?

Likewise, remembering all those brick buildings in that part of the U.S....I have to wonder what else might have fallen down. Brick and mortar do not stand up well to an earthquake.

Milwaukee, actually.

There was some damage in Louisville, but no damage anywhere else *that I've heard of* right now. I'll probably be watching the evening news to hear updates.

I've also heard that the aftershocks have been going on for quite awhile; it doesn't surprise me at all that there are people here who've been feeling quakes all day.

Gizz already said, but I didn't feel a thing. I would imagine, though, that that has to do with the fact that I had taken something to make me sleep. The first I heard about it was on the news while I was getting ready for work.

 

[Katyusha]

I slept like a baby last night...didn't feel a thing.

House still standing, nothing fell...although my rotty - Rudy - did not want to come in last night. Had to drag his ass in the house.

Come to think of it the other two seemed a little on edge last night too. I wonder?

Wouldn't surprise me if pets are more sensitive to it than we are. My cats were out of sorts this morning too.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Felt it here in TN. Got woke up at 4:30am by my bed shaking.

 

[SweetWitch]

Hope everyone one survived the day.

Here are the facts as I know them:

I was awakened to the shake, rattle and roll of a small tremor. I looked to the side and saw my kid in bed with me and thought that she had been the one to be shaking the bed when she climbed in. Then I realized she was sound asleep and had been there for awhile. I stewed on the problem for all of a minute before dozing back off. I was just good and asleep when the main quake struck. This one woke everyone. My husband grabbed his glok and maglight, convinced someone was breaking down the garage door.

Of course I found this amusing, told him it was an earthquake. He refused to believe me and went in search of the bad guys. I turned on CNN. No news there.

After I got to work, the quake was all the buzz. About 9:30, I felt a little tremor. I was scoffed at, told it was just our tech--a very large man--walking the floor. We're on the second floor and it tends to shake a bit when Chad or that really big woman from claims walks by. I told them they were nuts, that I felt the building shimmy, not shake.

Around 10:15, I was on the phone with a client when the next tremor hit. This one rattled the building and shut my computer down. My headset came off in my panic to keep the monitor from hitting the ground. By the time I got it back on, the place was in an uproar. The client on the phone was screaming for me to answer, just knew I was buried under a pile of rubble. I laughed and assured her that we had all survived, including the building.

But we lost contact with our offices in Marion Illinois. That's way south of us. It took a bit to get the systems back on line and then it was business as usual, for the most part. There were several smaller tremors throughout the afternoon, but they barely rate mention.

Last night, I yelled at my husband for leaving a window open. My cat took off. This is a cat that's usually too scared to venture outside. He's never been beyond the front stoop and only that for a minute or two. He's a wuss. But last night he took off for parts unknown. This morning I expected him to be back, but no. He was still gone. He's home now. Guess he knew something that we didn't. Inside ain't no place to be when the ground shakes.

Anyone else have that old song stuck in their heads--"I feel the earth move, under my feet, I feel the sky tumbling down, tumbling down...

 

[SinningOnlySlightly]

Everyone in my building woke up during the quake except me. Wish I had felt it.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Years ago when the Army decided it needed me to be in Germany I walked around Frankfurt wondering why the place wasn't right. When Hot Mama and the daughter arrived, she spotted it immediately. "The ground holds still here. No wonder you feel strange." She was right. From that standpoint I could see that one decent 6.0 and Deutchland would look like the end of WWII all over again. I see that these little moderate quakes terrify the UK as well. Better building codes, people, better building codes.











Of course there is nothing you can do against an 8+

 

[SweetWitch]

Years ago when the Army decided it needed me to be in Germany I walked around Frankfurt wondering why the place wasn't right. When Hot Mama and the daughter arrived, she spotted it immediately. "The ground holds still here. No wonder you feel strange." She was right. From that standpoint I could see that one decent 6.0 and Deutchland would look like the end of WWII all over again. I see that these little moderate quakes terrify the UK as well. Better building codes, people, better building codes.



Of course there is nothing you can do against an 8+

It wasn't a little quake, VM. It was large, far-reaching, albeit moderate. Most aren't felt so far away as this one. As I recall, new-building codes here require earthquake precautions--although in Illinois it's mostly for mine-subsidence reasons...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

As usual, my choice of words was faulty. I shouldn't have said "little". What I was comparing it to was a deep, intense one. Northridge is the most recent example, and Kobe, Japan, is another. As far as that one that set off the tsunami in the Indian Ocean . . . If one like that ever hits the continental US, the only result will be square miles of rubble and thousands dead. You just can't build against them and any engineer will tell you so.

 

[pleaz_me]

~Nods~

I felt it. I was sound asleep when I heard my closet doors rattling, then my bed shaking. I half-opened my eyes and yelled at my son to stop shaking my bed and go the f*&^ back to sleep. Consequently, he wasn't there, but yelled back from his own bed (in a matter-of-fact tone of voice) that it was an earthquake and to stop yelling at him. By that time I was fully awake, watching the 6' mirror on top of my dresser shaking like mad. I heard the furnace trying to kick on and thought for sure it was about to give out and come through the ceiling. I went back to sleep. Now mind you, we had a tornado rip right through our town a couple of years ago. It ripped a large oak in my backyard in half. I slept right through it ....

I woke up for work, turned on the news, and found out it really was an earthquake.

The ironic part was ... coming home from soccer practice this past Tuesday ... my son asks me, "Mom, when's the last time (our town) had an earthquake?" My reply? "Oh you silly butt, we don't have earthquakes here!" My son says, "Well what about a hurricane? Do we get those?" My response while laughing hysterically, "Hell no we don't get those!"

So we're standing at the soccer game tonight when the rain starts coming down so hard we couldn't see our hands in front of our faces and all of the umbrellas are flying away.

Morale of my rant? NEVER EVER EVER let your kid talk about earthquakes and hurricanes!

 

[SweetWitch]

~Nods~

I felt it. I was sound asleep when I heard my closet doors rattling, then my bed shaking. I half-opened my eyes and yelled at my son to stop shaking my bed and go the f*&^ back to sleep. Consequently, he wasn't there, but yelled back from his own bed (in a matter-of-fact tone of voice) that it was an earthquake and to stop yelling at him. By that time I was fully awake, watching the 6' mirror on top of my dresser shaking like mad. I heard the furnace trying to kick on and thought for sure it was about to give out and come through the ceiling. I went back to sleep. Now mind you, we had a tornado rip right through our town a couple of years ago. It ripped a large oak in my backyard in half. I slept right through it ....

I woke up for work, turned on the news, and found out it really was an earthquake.

The ironic part was ... coming home from soccer practice this past Tuesday ... my son asks me, "Mom, when's the last time (our town) had an earthquake?" My reply? "Oh you silly butt, we don't have earthquakes here!" My son says, "Well what about a hurricane? Do we get those?" My response while laughing hysterically, "Hell no we don't get those!"

So we're standing at the soccer game tonight when the rain starts coming down so hard we couldn't see our hands in front of our faces and all of the umbrellas are flying away.

Morale of my rant? NEVER EVER EVER let your kid talk about earthquakes and hurricanes!

Now that's a story to laugh about.

And, VM--

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Now that's a story to laugh about.

And, VM--

And and again, to you, too.

 

[SweetWitch]

A full night of sleep was had by all here. No new quakes to shake our reserve.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

That's good news. The longer the aftershocks wait, the less likely they become, I guess.

 

[shereads]

This is why I am against plate tectonics.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

This is why I am against plate tectonics.

I dont really mind tectonics as long as they stay in the bowl. Its when they move to the plate that everyting seems to go to hell.

 

[TxRad]

A full night of sleep was had by all here. No new quakes to shake our reserve.

I was going to ask what's shaken but you've already answered the question.

Butt then again, you are a witch

 

[SweetWitch]

Thanks for the giggles, guys.