danman31 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 scared the s*** out of me and my wife. I thought a plow hit a tree in front of my house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heads22 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 DeathQuake 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman delivers Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Critic Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 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!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Quick, we need a massive food drive! Call in the reserves! Stop the toursist cruise ships from docking . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 QUOTE (Tex @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 08:08 AM) 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 08:19 AM) 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 07:50 AM) 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 QUOTE (Tex @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 07:08 AM) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonxctf Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 im about 5 miles from the center... shook like crazy. thought someone slammed into my house with a car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Now I know why my cats freaked out at 4am and wouldn't come out from under the bed. Stupid cats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman delivers Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 10:37 AM) Now I know why my cats freaked out at 4am and wouldn't come out from under the bed. Stupid cats. Yeesh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 09:41 AM) Yeesh... There are two of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman delivers Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 10:42 AM) There are two of them. Just busting your balls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightni Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 I've heard that a group from a church in Haiti got arrested for trying to adopt a school bus full of DeKalb kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 According to USGS, this is the epicenter of the quake. View Larger Map Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reddy Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 04:17 PM) 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyx81 Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 (edited) 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? Edited February 11, 2010 by Nyx81 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 QUOTE (Nyx81 @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 09:07 PM) 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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