Earthquake!!!
 

Wow!

It lasted for what seemed an eternity. No news on the wire just yet.

Hope it wasn't the New Madrid because it could've done some damage along the Mississippi River.

Felt it here in Louisville...

5.4 magnitude..felt in several states..KY, IL

That's what that was!! Felt it at about 4:30 Central?? Is that right

Yep, exactly the time quoted on TV.

well..that's a first then.

5.2 quake.

7 to 10 percent chance of an 8.0 or greater in the next 50 years. :(

I think it was just Mommy Dearest falling down.

I thought it was the Indians winning

:mad:

;)

Southern Illinois is on the biggest fault line in the world actually. I have always wanted to go through some natural disasters, I slept right through it today. Word was that if a 7.5 quake rattled SIU, it would have destroyed all the buildings.

I hope Crown2Club is ok, he lives in Evansville, which was the epicenter I guess. Skippy to is somewhere in that area I think.

Just had a tremor.

I'm 30 miles east of Evansville.

Stay safe Coach

did that earthquke rattle your brain?:p

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It's a Piccaso.

Yep just felt that tremor also.

becareful what you wish for dude...

I'm sure we could arrange for you to be in a dinghy off the Florida coast in Hurrican Season..

or perhaps Central Oklahoma for a tornado:cool:

Read to yourselves 2x or 3x and let it sink in...

" I have always wanted to go through some natural disasters. "

I am just a huge fan. I really want to do some toronado chasing down near Oklahoma and Kansas, like that show on Discovery, HUGE FAN.

In Carbondale, there was a real serious storm coming through, so inside of going inside, got into 'the Scav' and tore ass to get to the middle of a field and see if I could see a tornado, no luck

Thebby ain't here.










But GRADE JUB,Steve!!!!

I'm leaving.

What's got me a little uneasy is this one was from the Wabash Valley fault and it could mess with the New Madrid. From what I've read about the earthquakes of 1811 and 1812, which happened in the span of 7 weeks, we be f.ucked if we get anything close to those.

So it wasn't from the New Madrid, that is interesting.

From what I read about it, if the New Madrid goes, it will be a large one, no small ones are coming from that area, according to the earthquake people.

SIU must be rockin and rolling already.

No your not

It might sound bad, but I think I am on the same page as Scav.

But I think it's all an after-the-fact wish. For me, it was. Given that it happened anyway, and given that it didn't (as far as I know, to this point) turn out deadly, I'm mad I slept through it because I'd like to have experienced it.

Though I also know that there's a huge chance that the Midwest gets a big, devastating one sometime in the not too distant future, so I'm hardly wishing for that one.

I guess it's sort of like redboarding an earthquake.

Move to Cleveland.

Enjoy many things unavailable to you where you now exist.



The foxes here are to die for.

What? Obviously i am hoping no one gets hurt, but you can't tell me that it wouldn't be unbelievable to see a tornado like 10 miles away, and you are outside your car seeing it....I think it would be a serious adrenliene rush

Welcome To California! Just Like Being At Home..........

In the span of 6 hours two catastrophic earthquakes hit. That is unreal.


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.

The crazy thing is that in grammar school (right down the street from where I live) we had earthquake training like once every two months, had to get under a wood desk, like that was stopping anything from hurting us....

The bad thing about it is that probably 90% of the buildings near this fault are not quake compliant, if their is a compliance.

Again, stay safe, I am surprised your internet and things are working Coach

From a pure irony standpoint, it would be crazy if the midwest got hit with a monster earthquake before LA falls into the ocean

seeing one is one thing but wish or hoping for one is another.

First their is a killer cougar in the middle of Chicago, and now a 5.2 Earthquake, world is ending.....

One day I will purposely put myself in harms way down south in Oklahoma/Kansas for a week or two to chase tornados.

there are people that actually pay for guides to take them. You have to sign a waiver says you are nuts and they are not liable though...

Exactly

maybe you, steve and i are to old.:confused: