Earthquake in the midwest.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Anyone else feel it?

I woke up to a loud rumbling in the ground and then my house started shaking, i had a picture fall off the wall and hit my bed but thats about it. A building facade a couple blocks away fell abit.


When i woke i seriously thought my house was being hit by a tornado. it took me a bit to figure out what happened.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

I know this isnt a big deal for you earthquake living areas. but ive only felt earthquakes in the 23-24 years living in this area about 3 times.


the new madrid fault line is no joke.



1811/1812 earthquake series

* December 16, 1811, 0815 UTC (2:15 a.m.); 7.7 magnitude; epicenter in northeast Arkansas; Mercalli XI. It caused only slight damage to man-made structures, mainly because of the sparse population in the epicentral area. However, landslides and geological changes occurred along the Mississippi River, and large localized waves were caused by fissures opening and closing below the Earth's surface.

* December 16, 1811, 1415 UTC (8:15 a.m.); 7.0 magnitude; epicenter in northeast Arkansas; Mercalli X-XI. This shock followed the first earthquake by six hours.

* January 23, 1812, 1500 UTC (9 a.m.); 7.6 magnitude; epicenter in the Missouri Bootheel. The meizoseismal area was characterized by general ground warping, ejections, fissuring, severe landslides, and caving of stream banks.

* February 7, 1812 (the New Madrid Earthquake), 0945 UTC (4:45 a.m.); 7.9 magnitude; epicenter near New Madrid, Missouri. New Madrid was destroyed. At St. Louis, Missouri, many houses were damaged severely, and their chimneys were thrown down. The meizoseismal area was characterized by general ground warping, ejections, fissuring, severe landslides, and caving of stream banks.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

OK turns out the New Madrid wasnt the cause. It was the Illinois Basin Ozark Region Fault.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

OK apparently I am reporting the news, to myself.

[VJ]

OK apparently I am reporting the news, to myself.

And doing a fine job...
(apart from the New Madrid mix-up... :P)


(never felt an earthquake here, even though we have had VERY mild ones a few years ago, can't imagine what it must be like, but I guess it would turn me into the murc-reporter-on-the-scene too )


Jörg

[Nowhere]

Not anymore to yourself?

Hmm...you know, now that I think about it - by moving, in some time, to a city placed further north I might have a chance of checking out how earthquake feels like :> (north of Poland is occasionally affected in this way, like Scandinavia and Baltic Sea, because of ground still rising after last ice age)

[Dr Mordrid]

Didn't feel it here, but then we usually get rattled by the fault under Lake Erie.

That said if New Madrid goes off it'll be felt from Maine to Denver

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Did you ever see Mega Disasters: Earthquake in the Heartland?

http://www.historychannelasia.com/tv/moredetails.aspx?id=1777

[Lizzard[MPE]]

I'm actually really surprised at the noise that came out of the ground. It was really loud.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Never even felt a quake, but on the Oklahoma Geological Survey site there's a list of quakes, like this 3.4 with 57 felt reports. Many of the reports say the quakes made a lot of noise.

[Elie]

My friend in Bloomington Indiana said she felt it twice.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

yeah i went to bed sometime later and woke up on two more occasions with my bed shaking. thats what i get for sleeping Japanese style.