Hi guys!
Anyone have any damage to report from this morning’s quake in the midwest? About 4:45 a.m. this morning, there was a quake centered around West Salem, Illinois that read 5.4 on the Richter scale. It was felt in 5 states! I was awakened out of a dead sleep with the sensation of “surfing sideways” on my waterbed! Unnerving, that! Just curious if anyone’s layouts had been affected. (hopefully not)
Mike
Mike Helphinstine said:Mike, ;) :D
Hi guys! Anyone have any damage to report from this morning's quake in the midwest? About 4:45 a.m. this morning, there was a quake centered around West Salem, Illinois that read 5.4 on the Richter scale. It was felt in 5 states! I was awakened out of a dead sleep with the sensation of "surfing sideways" on my waterbed! Unnerving, that! Just curious if anyone's layouts had been affected. (hopefully not) Mike
You gotta give it to those Richters, real movers and shakers! 
Leave it to you HJ
Ric Golding is in that general area (closer to St. Louis). What say you Ric ???
5.4 would not even make the news in CA.
So lets see the midwest has had bizzard, floods, earthquakes all this year so far. Throught in a fire and plage and I think you’l have it all coverd. Just can’t wait to get home to all that fun.
I think Ric was making a new cut for the RR and dug into a fault line.
Geoff George said:Don't forget about the tornadoes!
5.4 would not even make the news in CA. So lets see the midwest has had blizzard, floods, earthquakes all this year so far. Throw in a fire and plague and I think you'll have it all covered. Just can't wait to get home to all that fun.
-Brian
Bob McCown said::lol: :lol:
I think Ric was making a new cut for the RR and dug into a fault line.
Perfect! BTW which utility does one call so they come out and locate the fault lines?
Call before you blast ??
I dunno. Every time I call Digsafe, all they do is mark the gas and water, they’ve never sprayed “No tectonic plate edges” on the street in front of my house.
We are maybe 40 miles from the center , we also have been having "once every 100 years " rain and floods , so it really shook us here , 35-40 seconds , and the big after shock later really shook the china cab a long while a lot . Maybe this area is like jello now with the rains and floods , so it gives more motion ?
Happy Friday
Mike Helphinstine said:Was that what it was? I thought you had left the window open and started Snoring!
Hi guys! Anyone have any damage to report from this morning's quake in the midwest? About 4:45 a.m. this morning, there was a quake centered around West Salem, Illinois that read 5.4 on the Richter scale. It was felt in 5 states! I was awakened out of a dead sleep with the sensation of "surfing sideways" on my waterbed! Unnerving, that! Just curious if anyone's layouts had been affected. (hopefully not) Mike
Please note that I only live 2and 1/2 Blocks away. HEH. HEH.
Actually, now they are saying, it was closer to Mount Carmel, and was a 5.2… I am 30 miles south of Ric, and felt it at 4:36… Shook the whole house for a lil bit… Even woke up my kid, and that ia hard to do…
Had an aftershock around 11 am, and that seemed to be stronger and longer then the original shock… No real damage around here, that’s been found yet…
It woke the wife up this am…then she woke me up…a year or so ago we felt another…weird,a door in master bath bumped about 6 times and bed shook to match rhythm…this am, same thing…I’ve tried to replicate noise with cabinet door to no avail, but knew exactly what it was this am…all the way down here in SC…appox 0537…
cale
HJ,
The unusual thing about a 'Richter' earthquake is that you only feel it a week later, or you are told that the effects will be 'next week'. Problem is that 'next week' never comes, so did the earthquake actually happen or is it simply a figment of the imagination? But then of course the earthquake, when felt, will be compressed to more suit the sense of proportions of its creator and it will be attractively packaged in a distinctive box.5.2? Pshaw! Californians rely on those little quakes to rock the kids to sleep. 
Seriously, I’m glad there were no significant damages or injuries. And the good news is, these kinds of quakes usually release energy that otherwise would build up – better to have a few moderate quakes than one really big one.
All is well here. Jan felt the quake, I slept through it. A couple of things fell of shelves, no damage. It was in the Wabash Valley Fault by the town of West Salem. Only in Southern Illinois could you have a town named West Salem sitting southeast of Salem, Illinois Some people thought it was in the big New Madrid fault line. Who’d a thunk. After shock was felt about 10:15 sitting in the car talking to a friend on the cell phone. He told me it was an aftershock, I thought the wind had just shook the jeep a little. I guess this is going to be another one of those "Where were you moments.
I missed it completely, though people 'round here say they noticed it.
I even missed the aftershock when the radio said, “Wow! We just had an aftershock.” Didn’t feel a thing.
Good to hear no one was hurt.
I can remember being aboard my ship, tied to Pier 8 at Naval Station Sandy Eggo, and feeling the wave of the earthquake pass through the ship, and then about 3 minutes later, I felt the reverberation as it bounced off Coronado “Island.”
Wierd.
Glad no one was hurt. Any damage to anyone’s railroad?
madwolf
Tom, you can only feel the quake and aftershocks when you’re wearing shoes. ergo, (wait for it) after socks.
Mike