[Kazan]

Yeah... there was an earthquake in ILLINOIS

Hey Bob - did you feel it - they said you should have been able to easily feel it within 62 miles

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/uskgad.htm

[redsniper]

Illinois? weird...

[Turnsky]

eh, not unheard of away from major fault lines..

hell look at this one in australia no less:
http://www.allshookup.org/images/ncquake/ncquake.htm

[Bobboau]

I didn't feel a thing...
but I'm used to small shakes as I live right on a fairly bussy road (as evedenced by my dog getting killed last week). I remember hearing a weird rumbleing sound at about that time, but I don't think that would have been it.
I do live right next to St.Louis, and this hit near Chicago, so that's probly why I didn't feel anything.

and Illinois is NOT away from major fault lines, the new madrid fault is a very powerful but less active fault it oftine goes many years without doing anything then BAM! 9.0, it's been over 100 years sence the last big quake, so were about due.

[Kazan]

the last major new madrid (N.M. sits right at the bottom of the missisippi river along southern missiouri) was a 12er IIRC

[Knight Templar]

4.5? You are fretting at a 4.5?

[Kazan]

KT: they rarely happen here - and also we're in the Craton of this continent - seismic waves travel much more easily - an earthquake here can be felt around 10x further away than a same magnitude earthquake in california could be felt

So

California vs Midwest (Distance it can be felt)
1m vs 10m
10m vs 100m
50m vs 500m

[M being miles in this case]

[Knight Templar]

Ah, point received.

Illonois is strange indeed.

[redsniper]

*realizes that [V] is in Illinois*

[Kazan]

yes - i've driven through Champaign-Urbana twice - no i haven't seen the [V] building

PS: they ammended the seimic reading - 4.1

[jdjtcagle]

So how did Interplay get the power to cause earthquakes?...

[Flipside]

Ever phoned their technical support section?

[jdjtcagle]

Yes actually... it wasn't pretty.

[IceFire]

I've felt a few 4.0ish type Earthquakes growing up around here on the shores of Lake Ontario.  There's a minor fault that runs through the middle of the lake and all around in here.

Its not a continental fault so its not as active or as destructive as ones along the edges.

I guess you have a similar occurance in Illinois.  I also understand that somewhere down that way there is a fault line and that the last time it really did anything it was a massive quake that had the Missippi flowing the opposite direction for a few days...or so goes the legend.  Anyone know about that?

[Kazan]

IceFire: that big one is the New Madrid

[Bobboau]

yeah, New Madrid doesn't say much, but when it does it's on a thermonuclear scale.

[IceFire]

Just like the Vancouver one....it doesn't do much, there are no serious building codes in place, but I remember readin that its well over due for the next serious movement...and when it does it could create a 9.0 or greater with possible tsunami damage.

[Bobboau]

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/prepare/factsheets/NewMadrid/

if anyone cares...

I was looking for one of the sites that predicts things like the western half of the US will fall into the ocean becase of the madrid line, but I can't be assed

[Eishtmo]

I slept through it.  A 4 isn't much of a quake anyway.  When it gets up to a 6, I might notice.

New Madrid is a fun fault to live near.  Let's see, the last time it went off, it caused sand gysers, rang bells on the east coast and caused the Mississippi to flow upstream.  I can't wait for doomsday.

[Black Wolf]

Lots of your faults are due to go big - the San Andreas for example has a well documented periodic mass shifting which was due to happen awhile ago - it'll go sometime in the next twenty years, and the longer it waits, the more the pressure builds up.