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On Apr 18, 2:45 pm, dxAce wrote:
Telamon wrote:
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D Peter wrote:

dxAce wrote:
Had a small earthquake here this morning. Apparently centered in Illinois,
it
was felt at least 30 miles NE of my location. Just a bit of a rattle.

Region: ILLINOIS
Geographic coordinates: 38.520N, 87.872W
Magnitude: 5.4 Mw
Depth: 5 km
Universal Time (UTC): 18 Apr 2008 09:36:56
Time near the Epicenter: 18 Apr 2008 03:36:56
Local standard time in your area: 18 Apr 2008 09:36:56

Location with respect to nearby cities:
12 km (7 miles) E (90 degrees) of West Salem, IL
14 km (8 miles) NE (53 degrees) of Bone Gap, IL
14 km (9 miles) W (266 degrees) of Allendale, IL
67 km (41 miles) NNW (335 degrees) of Evansville, IN
206 km (128 miles) E (93 degrees) of St. Louis, MO

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I wonder if New Madrid is getting antsy, again. There's quite a bit
of seismic activity downstate that originates with pressures bearing on
the New Madrid fault.

I didn't feel anything here. But that's probably why I'm still single.

But thanks for the head's up. I'll check the seismograph at the
Planetarium when I'm down there this weekend.

That was a magnitude 5.2

It was revised after the original report, which came via email from the USGS.





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Anyone besides me find it odd that when the news broke, the only
picture any of the news stations in the Chicago area could come up
with was fallen bricks off a building in Louisville KY some - oh - 200
miles from the epicenter.?? I kept waiting for some station to at the
very least go down to Mt. Vernon IL and take some pics, but there was
nothing. Also, I guess not much happened in West Salem - no real
calamity.
But that fault line is bad. I find it so interesting that everybody
talks so much about California - and very little gets said about the
NEW MADRID fault line which is supposed to be far more dangerous.

Anyone have any good news articles on this quake?? Still trying to
look up the Mt. Vernon Register. I'm fairly certain Bone Gap doesn't
have a media outlet.

WLS radio and at least their ABC 7 outlet had sent some folks down to that area.
Apparantly quite rural.

As far as I know the damage in Louisville was really the only big news heard even
here. Quite lucky I suppose.