Earthquake in Illinois. I thought I felt a shake on my table and then my friend IM'd me asking if I felt that. Talk about eerie. Twitter has blown up over it. Insomnia can have its advantages ha. So for those of you who had a dream where you were shaken or something, this is why. Link proof

scared the s*** out of me and my wife. I thought a plow hit a tree in front of my house

DeathQuake 2010

It was weird. I got up at about 3:30 to, um, take care of some business, if you know what I mean. And I couldn't fall back asleep for a while, so I was up when it happened. I was so tired that I didn't think twice about it and fell back asleep, though.

SNOWQUAKE!!!!

 

If the earthquake opened up a giant hole in my driveway, at least the snow would fall in there and I wouldn't have to shovel.

Hey, ya gotta look at the bright side!!!

Quick, we need a massive food drive! Call in the reserves! Stop the toursist cruise ships from docking . . .

Balta, could you be kind enough to explain how the epicenter was in Sycamore? I had no idea a fault line ran this close to me

Quick, we need a massive food drive! Call in the reserves! Stop the toursist cruise ships from docking . . .

Too soon to make jokes about events that killed 230,000 people.

Balta, could you be kind enough to explain how the epicenter was in Sycamore? I had no idea a fault line ran this close to me

First, updated magnitude = 3.8. So that ought to give those who felt it an idea of the power we're talking about when we start getting to magnitude 5/6; that's 100x or 1000x more powerful.

 

The reason for noting that first is...it doesn't take a major fault to create a magnitude 3.8 event. Most of the world goes through events this scale every few hundred years because of settling/compaction; as you pile stuff on top of rocks, or you take stuff off (i.e. melt a large ice sheet) you slightly change the stress field. It only takes a small bit of re-adjustment and cracking, probably only of a few tens to hundreds of meters of rock, to give you an event of this size. If you dug down to the exact epicenter, you probably wouldn't even notice anything you'd call a fault line.

Epicenter was basically underneath the very small town of Virgil. My parents live about 5 miles east of there, north of Elburn. They thought there had been an explosion.

 

I live in the city, and I remember waking up at 4am, and wondering why I was awake. I thought I heard something strange, but then it was gone, and I drifted back off.

 

First, updated magnitude = 3.8. So that ought to give those who felt it an idea of the power we're talking about when we start getting to magnitude 5/6; that's 100x or 1000x more powerful.

 

The reason for noting that first is...it doesn't take a major fault to create a magnitude 3.8 event. Most of the world goes through events this scale every few hundred years because of settling/compaction; as you pile stuff on top of rocks, or you take stuff off (i.e. melt a large ice sheet) you slightly change the stress field. It only takes a small bit of re-adjustment and cracking, probably only of a few tens to hundreds of meters of rock, to give you an event of this size. If you dug down to the exact epicenter, you probably wouldn't even notice anything you'd call a fault line.

I do know there is a fault further SW of there, around Dixon, that occasionally produces 4+ quakes. But that's at least 50 miles away.

 

Quick, we need a massive food drive! Call in the reserves! Stop the toursist cruise ships from docking . . .

 

I'm not giving food to no foreigners. We gottsta keep all of the food for my own people in Indiana

im about 5 miles from the center... shook like crazy. thought someone slammed into my house with a car.

Now I know why my cats freaked out at 4am and wouldn't come out from under the bed.

 

 

Stupid cats.

Now I know why my cats freaked out at 4am and wouldn't come out from under the bed.

 

 

Stupid cats.

 

Yeesh...

Yeesh...

There are two of them.

There are two of them.

 

Just busting your balls.

I've heard that a group from a church in Haiti got arrested for trying to adopt a school bus full of DeKalb kids.

According to USGS, this is the epicenter of the quake.

 

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Out of curiosity, is this fault connected to the New Madrid system at all? Where is the best place to find stuff like that out?

bizarre - i went to sleep around 1:30/2ish so i guess i was dead to the world around 4:15... shame. I always miss these things. haha.

 

although with my downstairs neighbor and the copious bass he pumping right now... i wouldn't be able to feel a mag 7 let alone 3.8...

Out of curiosity, is this fault connected to the New Madrid system at all? Where is the best place to find stuff like that out?

The articles I saw today said it wasn't - its hundreds of miles away from the New Madrid zone.

 

I'm confused (not hard) but I thought the quake early this morning was near DeKalb, more in the western suburbs. Were there two quakes?

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I'm confused (not hard) but I thought the quake early this morning was near DeKalb, more in the western suburbs. Were there two quakes?

USGS revised their epicenter after further analysis. Original one was 5 miles east of Sycamore, around the small town of Virgil. They are now saying the epicenter is just behind a farm house at the intersection of Plank and Mulihead roads, in the Plato Center area.

 

Interestingly, the Trib interviewed the people who live there, and the other ones across the street. One of them said they could have sworn they felt something similar a couple nights earlier as well.