Earthquake

dlimb2

We just had a 4.5 earthquake...shook me out of bed...71 miles west of Chicago...did anyone else feel it?

Placid

Are your coins ok?

Cladiator

Now that's irony...I have family out here (here being northern california) that are from the chicago area. They come to visit the land of earthquakes and they end up having one at home while they are gone lol

ElectricEye

California must have exported that one. No sign of it here in Huntington Beach.

FrankinWI

I'm glad someone else felt the earthquake. I thought I was dreaming, but I wasn't even asleep yet!


Frank

K6AZ

Detailed Info

dlimb2

Yeah that is getting close...if the Mississippi ever starts to shake...we are in trouble....

Louis

I am South of Chicago and didn't feel a thing.

XpipedreamR

Didn't feel anything.

tmot99

I'm in far NW burbs of Chicago and didn't feel it, but then again, I sleep through a baby crying in my bedroom.

Just to keep it relevant, my coins showed no evidence of being shaken either.

Bikingnut

4.5, thats a little one. I would have slept right through that.

Dennis
San Diego

CoinHunter2003

4.5 shakes up those Lower 48 folks but will rarely wake us up! Living on the edge
in Alaska. Largest earthquake on the North American Continent - Good Friday 1964.

Alex

Manorcourtman

Maybe Oprah fell out of bed?

mgoodm3

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Didn't feel anything. >>




Is Ouagadougou near Chicago?

XpipedreamR

It's closer than you think

ms70

<< <i>Maybe Oprah fell out of bed? >>



Quite possible!

rlawsha

I am originally from Ottawa but now live about 100 miles South West of there. My parents, brother and one sister still live in Ottawa. I'll have to give them a call and see if they felt it.

LALASD4

We had a 5.2 two weeks ago, no big deal.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/06/15/so.cal.quake.ap/

dlimb2

Well a 4.5 is pretty good here...see we don't get to many of those...but one day I am sure when those plates around the Mississippi River decide to shift...let me tell you we are going to shake rattle and roll...and it won't be funny.

dlimb2

I remember that Alaska quake...that was a huge one...with tons of damage...

ddbird

<< Maybe Oprah fell out of bed? >>


Nah..no 4.5 could get move her

DrWho

Geez, any chance that NGC will be offering:

"Amazing Earthquake EFFECT" coins?

dlimb2

I doubt it DrWho...as I have not put mine up for sale.

dlimb2

Clad, they should get a kick out of this news.

Varlis

I felt it in Madison. Shook my bed.

dlimb2

Thanks Eric for the documentation.

BBN

Weclome to the club Northern Illinoisans. We getem' 1-2 times a year down here in So. Il. Not a big deal. Just enough to distract you from what you're doing.

bigtonydallas

I thought the one in Southeast Missouri about 1820-1830 was the largest!

BASEagle

Yep, I believe it was actually 1817 when the Missouri earthquake caused the Mississippi river to flow north.

Mike

SemperFI

<< <i>We had a 5.2 two weeks ago, no big deal.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/06/15/so.cal.quake.ap/ >>




That was my first earthquake here in California and my fourth overall. Not too bad.

My first earthquake was in Cape May, New Jersey...I think that was in 1982.
My second was on the Big Island of Hawaii at Pu' Kuloa Training Area. We saw smoke way in the distance as there was a larger eruption going on. Shook our cots all night long as there were earthquakes then tremors all night. Pretty cool but made you wonder when the lava would start rushing thru the Marine Quanson Huts.
My third was in Camp Hansen, Okinawa (Japan) which equaled my fourth earthquake. Not too bad.

dlimb2

Well if we were to have one on the magnitude of the 1817 quake...asta lavesta baby....

UncleWiggly

<< <i>Maybe Oprah fell out of bed? >>



Maybe she fell into bed!

BBN

There's an area of land called Kaskaskia Island that was formed because of the big quake in the 1800s. The Mississippi River rerouted itself around this area and it's no longer connected to Illinois. Or Missouri for that matter. I believe the largest quake in US history was in Alaska wasn't it?

100proof1957

Quake ?
In ILL. ?
say what ?
they be correct,imported from Cal. !
i live on a fault,dont even notice em anymore !
Same as a tornado in Cal,must a been imported !

Proof

Newmismatist

Here's the info on the "New Madrid" earthquake of 1811-12. MAkes interesting reading - would not like to be in St. Louis under the "Arch" when the next one hits!

"Shortly after 2 o'clock on the morning of December 16, 1811, the Mississippi River valley was convulsed by an earthquake so severe that it awakened people in cities as distant at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Norfolk, Virginia. This shock inaugurated what must have been the most frightening sequence of earthquakes ever to occur in the United States. Intermittent strong shaking continued through March 1812 and aftershocks strong enough to be felt occurred through the year 1817. The initial earthquake of December 16 was followed by two other principal shocks, one on January 23, 1812, and the other on February 7, 1812. Judging from newspaper accounts of damage to buildings, the February 7 earthquake was the biggest of the three.

In the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys the earthquakes did much more than merely awaken sleepers. The scene was one of devastation in an area which is now the southeast part of Missouri, the northeast part of Arkansas, the southwest part of Kentucky, and the northwest part of Tennessee. Reelfoot Lake, in the northwest corner of Tennessee, stands today as evidence of the might of these great earthquakes. Stumps of trees killed by the sudden submergence of the ground can still be seen in Reelfoot Lake.

Uplift of over 3 meters was reported at one locality several hundred kilometers to the southwest of the epicentral zone where a lake formed by the St. Francis River had its water replaced by sand. Numerous dead fish were found in the former lake bottom. Large fissures, so wide that they could not be crossed on horseback, were formed in the soft alluvial ground. The earthquake made previously rich prairie land unfit for farming because of deep fissures, land subsidence which converted good fields to swamps, and numerous sand blows which covered the ground with sand and mud. The heavy damage inflicted on the land by these earthquakes led Congress to pass in 1815 the first disaster relief act providing the landowners of ravaged ground with an equal amount of land in unaffected regions.

Some of the most dramatic effects of the earthquakes occurred along rivers. Entire islands disappeared, banks caved into the rivers, and fissures opened and closed in the river beds. Water spouting from these fissures produced large waves in the river. New sections of river channel were formed and old channels cut off. Many boats were capsized and an unknown number of people were drowned. "

SDCollector

We live about a half mile from a hugh fault here (Rose Canyon, San Diego). I don't feel anything under 6.0. And I thought we were the only ones in the U.S. that had earthquakes!

BBN

Those facts about the 1811 quake forgot to mention So. Illinois which is just a few miles from it. Yes Californians we do have earthquakes. We have several small fault lines here in So. Illinois that causes tremors that can be felt about 1-2 times a year. According to seismologists we actually have very small ones 1-2 times a week. We all have earthquake insurance around here because the New Madrid fault is supposed to explode again someday. The quake we had in 1968 is the biggest we've had in the last 50-60 years so it's boiling

Conder101

It's going to be very interesting the next time New Madrid goes off again, and it's about 50 years overdue. The last time ground movements were enough to ring church bells on the east coast and over 13 feet closer by. Journals for the Louisville Ky areas reported the ground rolling like ocean waves and the ground rising and falling as much as five feet. Damage next time in St Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati should be enormous.

dlimb2

Well I hope it stayes in a nice mood for the next 500 years...that would bring total devistation to the midwest...which non of us need.

coppercoins

<< <i>It's going to be very interesting the next time New Madrid goes off again, and it's about 50 years overdue. The last time ground movements were enough to ring church bells on the east coast and over 13 feet closer by. Journals for the Louisville Ky areas reported the ground rolling like ocean waves and the ground rising and falling as much as five feet. Damage next time in St Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati should be enormous. >>



Don't forget Memphis. They've been expecting the perverbial "biggie" for a number of years now. Memphis sits atop a large aquifer, the land that covers it is mainly sand. There is very little bedrock anywhere to be found. A quake in Memphis of 6 magnitude would almost certainly level the city, and the talk is that when the "biggie" happens, it will reach far above 8 on the scale. With nearly a million residents, Memphis is a huge disaster waiting to happen.

I live in Southwest Missouri on the Ozark Plateau, with little other than bedrock around me. Much of the land here is not farming quality because of the rocks in the soil - most of the farms are in the soft ground around river beds. I believe we are at least somewhat protected from a New Madrid quake, but I have my doubts.