+Tailspin 3 Posted April 18, 2008 Damn! We had a 5.4 quake early this morning. Epicenter was in West Salem which is about 100 miles north of me. It was felt as far away as Chicago, St. Louis, and Louisville. Shook the house pretty good. Anybody else feel it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Tailspin 3 Posted April 18, 2008 News reports are now saying that the quake was felt as far away as Ontario, Canada. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viper6 3 Posted April 18, 2008 (edited) News reports are now saying that the quake was felt as far away as Ontario, Canada. wow, here in cali that would not even be noticed lol my sister lives in milwaukee i'd better call her to see if she felt it Edited April 18, 2008 by Viper6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Longestpants 1 Posted April 18, 2008 It woke my mom up, and she arrived at the extremely logical conclusion that someone had broken in. You know how petty thieves use those bulldozers now. :D I myself slept through it, though I had a dream about a plane crash. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nesher 629 Posted April 18, 2008 it's kinda funny feeling an earthquake, we had a few in the past year here in Israel lucky enough no one got hurt :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Tailspin 3 Posted April 18, 2008 wow, here in cali that would not even be noticed lol my sister lives in milwaukee i'd better call her to see if she felt it Well we don't get many around here although the New Madrid Fault is the source of one of the bigger quakes in North American history. Geologically speaking this area of the Midwest is one huge basin, not divided by many fault lines, so when one hits it travels farther without being interrupted by mountains or other large faults. Most tremors I've experienced have been more of a vibration but a few were strong enough were you could actually feel the side to side movement. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Fates 63 Posted April 18, 2008 Woke me up in Indianapolis this morning. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sparkomatic 7 Posted April 19, 2008 did the Wabash River flow backwards? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SayethWhaaaa 245 Posted April 19, 2008 Were you awake at the time Tailspin? You sure it wasn't gas dude? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Fates 63 Posted April 19, 2008 did the Wabash River flow backwards? I lived on the Wabash for a year at Purdue......the only thing I seen flow backwards there Rowing Team Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Tailspin 3 Posted April 19, 2008 Were you awake at the time Tailspin? You sure it wasn't gas dude? I was sleepin' away. First I thought it was a train switching cars, then I thought Nahhhh....its just the old lady snoring. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Tailspin 3 Posted April 19, 2008 did the Wabash River flow backwards? No but it made the water in the toilet go around clockwise. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ONETINSOLDIER 2 Posted April 19, 2008 I was on Hyperlobby and someone said they just had a quake, he sounded pretty excited. Normally 4.0's go by pretty much unnoticed here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
serverandenforcer 33 Posted April 19, 2008 Well, I've been through many quakes here in So Cal, and the Northridge quake in '94 was the biggest and worst quake I've ever been through. Lost the chimney, the brick wall to our side yard, and had fisures open up in the backyard. During the after shocks, you could literally see the ground just surge up and then back down, rippling across the area as the shock wave spanned out and away. It was the most frightening and exciting moments of my life next to the action I saw in Iraq. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Weasel Keeper 0 Posted April 19, 2008 I felt it in Ft Wayne, IN twice. Once in the morning when I awoke to my TV on the dresser rattling and my bed shaking, and then about 11:30am I felt about the same sized aftershock. I lived in California for 4 years and a quake in Needles (6.0) in 1986 was one of the largest I've felt. There was another big one around 1989 that rocked L.A. that I felt pretty good too. We usually had a handful of smaller quakes every year in Cali so this morning's here in the midwest I just told my wife that it wasn't our big dog moving around the room...he was still sleeping and just woke up...it was an earthquake and I went back to sleep. :) The wackos in central Indiana are blaming the mysterious booms (my unit's F-16s accidently breaking the sound barrier) they heard a couple nights before on making the earthquake. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander51 3 Posted April 21, 2008 (edited) You are very much correct about the character of fault system at work in the New Madrid seismic zone, Tailspin. Here in California we have a transverse plate boundary and the New Madrid system was apparently an extremely ancient rift valley, a divergent plate system. It had it's origins at the end of the Proterozoic Eon when the supercontinent Rodinia began to rift apart. Rodinia was just one episode of 7 seperate supercontinent cycles that have occured during Earth history. I used to live in New Mexico and we have a rift valley system there, the Rio Grande Rift. Whereas the Rio Grande Rift is exposed at the surface, the New Madrid system (aka the The Reelfoot Rift) is buried under 750 million years of time and sediment accumulation! This immense system of buried and downward warping fault blocks are probably responsible for this recent quake and definitely caused the great New Madrid events of 1811-1812. Edited April 21, 2008 by MrCraig41 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
