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Earthquake rattles Midwest
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:15 am
by Apoptosis
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A brief earthquake struck the Midwest early Monday, rattling windows and awakening sleeping residents from Wisconsin and south to Missouri and from southwest Michigan and Indiana west to Iowa.
No injuries were reported from the quake, which occurred about 2:11 a.m. ET.
The earthquake also was felt lightly in southwest Michigan, according to information posted on the U.S. Geographical Survey Web site. The USGS had reports of the earthquake being felt in Buchanan, Berrien Springs, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph and Niles.
Brian Lassige, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado, said the quake was magnitude 4.5, and its epicenter was about eight miles northwest of Ottawa in northern Illinois, close to the small village of Troy Grove. The rural area is about 70 miles west of Chicago.
Couldn't feel it down here in STL or I was sound asleep! PJ you feel it?
Linky
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:18 am
by pastorjay
Nah... I was fast asleep at that time... that is less than 100 miles from me...
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:52 am
by Bio-Hazard
I didn't feel a thing either.......but something woke the wife up..........
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:09 pm
by LVCapo
Man, that nothin, come out West, i'll take you to a place where they have almost 100 quakes a day that are that strong. The geothermal wells outside of Cloverdale Ca have between 100-300 quakes a dayy, some as large as 4.0 on the scale. You guys just worry about your tornados anhumidity... and floods.
Well, wait, you guys actually had one of the worst quakes in history back there, rang bells in Boston and made the Mississippi flow backwards, wasn't that the Madrid fault?
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:17 pm
by infinitevalence
hehe the bells are still ringing in Boston but its for gay marriges not earthquakes :twisted:
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:44 pm
by LVCapo
you are so wrong!!! LOL
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 6:46 pm
by Apoptosis
ah haha... I was watching the marriage special thingy on MTV today...
Perfect timing for that joke