Earthquakes for newbies
Earthquake in IL was interesting here: woke us up (I kept thinking "that's one weird tornado").
Everyone OK.
I was impressed by the usefulness of the USGS site below.
Within minutes this website had posted an epicenter map, and summarized live email survey reports rating effects observed on houses, etc, by zip code. Their data beat NPR / CNN / AP by a long time, and it was right on in terms of accuracy. Nice job, Uncle Sam (my Apr 15th "thank-you" check is in the mail).
Good real time maps of earthquakes:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/
Reporting entry site:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/dyfi/
Mapped results for recent Wabash quake:
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/STORE/X2008qza6/ciim_display.html
Rocking in StL - see you all in MS.
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This is no joke. I felt my bed sway slightly for about 1 minute at 4:45 a.m. that morning, and actually thought "this must be what an earth tremor feels like in an earthquake". Then on the t.v. news at 7 a.m. was the news about Illinois. Wow. . . all the way to Des Moines . Later, a commentator on the radio said the reason it was felt so far out of the epicenter was that the ground is so saturated with moisture in the midwest states the ground does not absorb the shocks as well, so they travel farther. It's minor compared to Calif. events like this, but to us in the heartland, pretty cool.
Wow! I missed the news! Amazing that it traveled so far but interesting the earth conditions making that happen. They continue to say on the news this area is due or over due ......I would like to pass on the experience. They also say fires will be worse next season....don't need that either. Glad all are fine. Will check out your internet threads later.
How freakish ... I've read that if/when the next big one hits the midwest it'll be tragic since the building haven't been through the same stringent earthquake 'proof' requirements.
The last earthquake I felt was in Tokyo while waking up in my 30 story hotel (was on 28). Building there are earthquake 'proof' though so the building just swayed back and forth (by design).
I read you were hit by another quake last week?
Yeah you know I'm not positive. But I'm pretty sure I read that one of the biggest fault lines in the U.S. runs straight through the midwest spanning from ocean to ocean. Of course it lies dormant but still pretty amazing. Yeah here in Cali, one night really late I heard a rumbling and felt the wall behind me shake. I thought I may of had just to little sleep, but in response I ran into the next room and woke Rachel up which of course by then the quake was finished. She thought I was nuts. Well it was at that time that I logged onto one of the earthquake national monitoring sites and saw that I was right. A minor 5.2 or something had occured. After looking at the site I was amazed to see how many minor quakes were happening all over the worl;d every minute. I thought it was pretty amazing how technology could pinpoint every single sizemic activity happening in the world. Needless to say I think I looged onto that site every day for two weeks just to look at all the activity.