Whoa!

Where are you?

chocolate1 said:

yeah...

Cuddles said:

What the?

4.3 is nothing to sneeze at either.


Welcome to my world.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

It was in Chicago. My friend said it woke him from bed. He lives just north of downtown Chicago in a high rise.

What on earth.


I think Yellow Stone is overdue.

ernestsewell said:

I know it was in Chicago. I've lived in California most of my life so I know how scary that can be.

I don't think I could take being in a high rise during an earthquake. Eeek.

Glad everyone is ok.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I was just adding to what you said.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I was in a high rise with a hangover for my first one

TheVoid said:

Actually, they experienced a bunch in January!



JACKSON, Wyo. - Yellowstone National Park earthquake researchers say a series of more than 1,800 small temblors that have rattled the park for nearly a month are dwindling.

The earthquake swarm began Jan. 17 near West Yellowstone, Mont. Robert Smith, a University of Utah professor of geophysics and coordinating scientist for the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, says it's the largest swarm since a 1985 series that lasted three months.

The latest swarm is clustered in a region about six miles long and is focused about five miles below the surface of the earth. It's included nearly a dozen earthquakes that were magnitude 3 or larger.

Smith says he doesn't think the quakes have stopped altogether, but he says activity has diminished to the point where researchers are no longer filing daily swarm reports.


http://www.kfbb.com/news/...25312.html




Anyway, they're settling down now...thank goodness

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[Edited 2/10/10 10:36am]

And for those of you who live in the Chicago area...
isn't this most recent earthquake on a different faultline than usual?
I had some trouble hooking on to that article you posted, Cuddles.

I live in the Chicago area damn I didnt feel a thing slept right through it I guess...

vivid said:

OMG! All the destruction. Oh the humanity. Will Hollywood come out in force and have a special telethon for the suffering citizens of Northern Illinois? Will there be a Hope for Huntley concert?

I live about 40 miles from the epicenter of the quake, which occurred at 4:00 am. I slept through the whole thing.

728huey said:

when we had our last earthquake, of similar magnitude the news reported that near the epicentre, a lady spilled her wine on her shirt

and that was ALL

Live in the state but further south.... I feel jipped

I was up when it happened. 4AM I think. I didn't know wtf was happening. I was calm about it, thinking it was our washer/dryer on the fritz. When it messes up, I can feel the house shaking a bit. The boom boom sound I heard sounded just like the washer when it thrashes about. I put two and two together when I saw my door moving, my cd case, my desk, and montior moving....

I kinda just sat there in my moving chair like "hmmm, earthquake. Cool."

ZombieKitten said:

I hope she got that nasty stain out.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Y'all so crazy.

Many places in North America have them every so often. Normally the are not noticed. (a 3 is about like a truck driving by)

We have had several close to where I live, I have felt two of them but at the time I assumed it was a train.

LadyLuvSexxy said:

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

she probably took her story to all the current affairs programs!

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Cali is gonna have one in the near future

bboy87 said:

I just want to be at home when it happens.