Had A Earthquake This Morning

[RICHARD]

A lot of strange behavior reports from local people made the news here.
I believe animals can sense these things.


"The whole house was shaking. I could hear the chimes out on the deck," Hartman said.

Oh great. You Midwesterners should try living with wind chimes during the Santa Ana winds.....As it is, you only hear them when the quakes hit.

Go for a three day, non-stop concert of those things.

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Actually,
Us Cah-lee-Fuh-Nee-ahns hear our healing crystals and see our incense sticks jiggling around before each quake. Then we go check the espresso machine to make sure it's still on the kitchen counter.

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Speaking of counters....You see some of the strangest shiat after an earthquake. Back in 94 I went to my parent's house to check up on them,
As I walked thru the house I stopped in the kitchen.

I love chocolate cake.

I saw this choco cake upside down in the counter.

The dang thing was in the freezer about five feet away, before the quake hit.
It flew across the space and landed on the counter. I remember asking them how the quake felt and how the cake got flipped over. Nope, they said it flew across the room and landed that way.......

Had it only landed right side up.......

[lizbud]

We've had 15 aftershocks since the first one. Latest one this morning.
It was only 4.5.


INDIANAPOLIS -- Another aftershock from Friday's earthquake shook parts of the Midwest early Monday morning and was felt by some in central Indiana.

The aftershock, which registered a 4.5 on the Richter scale, struck at 1:38 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The epicenter of the quake was about five miles northwest of Mount Carmel, Ill., near the epicenter of Friday's earthquake.

Most people in central Indiana slept through the latest rumbling. Fifteen aftershocks or more of varying intensity have been recorded since the initial quake early Friday morning.

"It's quite typical of an earthquake of this size … that a number of aftershocks can occur," said Amy Vaughan of the USGS.

Vaughan said that as many as 10 aftershocks could be expected in the "4" range of magnitude, with up to 100 in the "3" range.

"Generally speaking, the chances are rather low that this event would be followed by a larger event," Vaughan said. "That's not to say it's unheard of, but … the pattern is that the '4' shock is the main shock and will be the largest."

[Jessika]

Yeah my mom called to say we had a 4.5 around 12:30 this morning and another 2.2 around 8am but I didn't feel either one and at 8am I was wide awake at school sitting on the ground in kennel doing TPRs on the isolation pups so I certainly would have felt it hehe

[cyber-sibes]

When we lived in IL I had a friend who taught earth science and she said that that whole central area had a major fault under it & one day there would be a REALLY big earthquake in that area! (I guess maybe the Mississippi will split the country wide open!) I've only ever felt one in Ohio years ago.

[RICHARD]

We've had 15 aftershocks since the first one. Latest one this morning.
It was only 4.5.

See? A few shakers and they turn into "only" earthqukes!

I have to admit, this earthquake MAY have been my fault....

It's someone's FAULT!