this morning around 4:30 am the kid wakes up crying. something about her sock fell off? the wife is up handling it while i lay in bed trying to go back to sleep. i am almost there where i feel the bedroom shake? it did it twice. it was odd, but it was early and maybe i was just really sleepy.

reports i am hearing on the radio this morning seem to be indicating the midwest had an earthquake?!@? that is just crazy.

later.

this morning around 4:30 am the kid wakes up crying. something about her sock fell off? the wife is up handling it while i lay in bed trying to go back to sleep. i am almost there where i feel the bedroom shake? it did it twice. it was odd, but it was early and maybe i was just really sleepy.

reports i am hearing on the radio this morning seem to be indicating the midwest had an earthquake?!@? that is just crazy.

later.

yep pretty cool, just checked my email and it hit. Lived in SoCal for years and never felt one. live south of Indy.

Lafayette rattled pretty good this morning!

i am almost there where i feel the bedroom shake


I hear carbon beds take the edge off of the vibrations.....

I hear carbon beds take the edge off of the vibrations.....

yea, but they crack at the worse times.:D

yea, but they crack at the worse times.:D

Ouch......:p

I diidn't feel it as I was driving my son to school just at that moment when the earthquake hit.
Yeah, you heard right, 4:40am I had to drop him off for a field trip.

So, since I was awake anyway I used that opportunity to squeeze in a 1h 30min bike ride before going to work :D Weather is gorgeous! Oh, and I got a nice 35mph draft from a rig starting from a traffic light. Breakin Away style ;)

yea, but they crack at the worse times.:D

Especially during the final sprint when you're about to win!

Slept right through it.

It woke me up. Thought it was an earthquake or a huge cat fight under the bed. No noise, just jiggling of the bed.

On CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/18/illinois.earthquake/index.html)

It woke my wife up, and kinda woke me up. Although I didn't know it was an earthquake: I was getting mad at my wife for shaking the bed so much, ha.

Did all your bikes survive?

Slept through it. Wouldn't be the first time.

I experienced a ton of earthquakes when I lived in Taiwan. Your brain always thinks they are something else when they start and it always takes me a second or two to figure out what they are.

As for sleeping through...I slept through a 5.something in Taiwan. When I woke up and the bed was about 6 inches from the wall and everyone in the house was running around asking if everyone was OK.

uh, i think here in Aurora we just had another one. like 2 minutes ago. the three story building i am in was shaking for about 20 seconds. am i the only one that did not get the memo about the world coming to an end. im not saying. im just saying. later.

uh, i think here in Aurora we just had another one. like 2 minutes ago. the three story building i am in was shaking for about 20 seconds. am i the only one that did not get the memo about the world coming to an end. im not saying. im just saying. later.

I'm in downtown right now but I didn't feel anyth.. NO CARRIER!

uh, i think here in Aurora we just had another one. like 2 minutes ago. the three story building i am in was shaking for about 20 seconds. am i the only one that did not get the memo about the world coming to an end. im not saying. im just saying. later.

Felt nothing. Sorry dude...and you know I am in Aurora right now as well.

Speaking of which when are you stopping by to pick up your extras from the work I did...and take me out to lunch? :D (BTW - they are in the car and I rode today)

uh, i think here in Aurora we just had another one. like 2 minutes ago. the three story building i am in was shaking for about 20 seconds. am i the only one that did not get the memo about the world coming to an end. im not saying. im just saying. later.

Probably just a secretary taking some dictation on the second floor.

uh, i think here in Aurora we just had another one. like 2 minutes ago. the three story building i am in was shaking for about 20 seconds. am i the only one that did not get the memo about the world coming to an end. im not saying. im just saying. later.

I'm south of you, west of Joliet. I thought there was something too, because the lights and ceiling tiles in my office all kinda jostled a little bit - but then I thought it was probably just my mind "thinking earthquake," because a truck went by or something.

there are aftershocks occurring still, ranging fro 2.8 and up.

there are aftershocks occurring still, ranging fro 2.8 and up.

Just shook our buillding in downtown Indy noticeably.:eek:

uh, i think here in Aurora we just had another one. like 2 minutes ago. the three story building i am in was shaking for about 20 seconds. am i the only one that did not get the memo about the world coming to an end. im not saying. im just saying. later.

At 11:18 AM EDT, aftershock felt here in Fort Wane, IN

Computer monitors all shock, pole light woblled, and thought a vibrator feature added to office chair.

Actually it seem as if I was no a boat and a wave went underneath.

Did not feel the earlier occurrence, but many other reported via media outlets.

Friend in Indy, reported same, but fun this AM as she was in the shower, when the world moved in her corner.

From the Tribune:

UPDATE: An aftershock was reported around 10:15 a.m. preliminarily registering at 4.5 on the Richter Scale, acccording to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Felt nothing. Sorry dude...and you know I am in Aurora right now as well.

Speaking of which when are you stopping by to pick up your extras from the work I did...and take me out to lunch? :D (BTW - they are in the car and I rode today)

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From the Tribune:

UPDATE: An aftershock was reported around 10:15 a.m. preliminarily registering at 4.5 on the Richter Scale, acccording to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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wake up. the world is coming to an end and you are missing it. geesh :rolleyes:.

i was just about to PM you and offer up some lunch in exchange for my bags-o-junk. i guess that is a no go since you are all mr i rode into work today nana nana boo boo. :D

guess it will have to be beers in exchange for bags while up in NG. later.

guess it will have to be beers in exchange for bags while up in NG. later.

...feels like college all over again.

If you're so inclined, looks like USGS will take your report (and the link includes other info as well):
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/

If you're so inclined, looks like USGS will take your report (and the link includes other info as well):
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/

Already did that ;) Thanks for the link though :D

The New Madrid fault is the Midwest's ticking time bomb. No insurance for it either.

All my daydreams are disasters
She's the one I think I love
Rivers burn and then run backwards
For her, that's enough
[...]
Come on do what you did
Roll me under New Madrid
Shake my baby and please bring her back
'Cause death won't even be still
Caroms over the landfill
Buries us all in its broken back....
...........................................""New Madrid" - Uncle Tupelo

The New Madrid fault is the Midwest's ticking time bomb. No insurance for it either.

I have earthquake insurance. It's like a whole $30/year for me to have it.

LOL. I need to pay attention to what's going on in my own newsroom...
Guess some people felt it up here (Green Bay)
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080418/GPG0101/80418004/1978/frontpage

I have earthquake insurance. It's like a whole $30/year for me to have it.


sure you do. and i have some swamped land to sell you. :D later.

sure you do. and i have some swamped land to sell you. :D later.

....said the Insurance guy......

I have a BS in Geology, and am fully aware of the geologic hazards in our area - it's a piece of mind thing I knew I wanted to have when we built our house 3 years ago. If you really want, I could scan my homeowners policy to show you.

I think what he's referring to is the probability that if the New Madrid cuts loose as badly as it did in 1811-12, your policy issuer will be bankrupted, along with every other insurer that issues earthquake policies. The population density and sheer number of seismically unreinforced masonry structures will do the companies in without a major federal bailout that I'm not sure the government could afford. Damage would be in the trillions.

I have a BS in Geology, and am fully aware of the geologic hazards in our area - it's a piece of mind thing I knew I wanted to have when we built our house 3 years ago. If you really want, I could scan my homeowners policy to show you.

Ah, I see -that seems to make more sense. At first I thought he was claiming I didn't have it.

The federal government helped out insurance companies after Katrina - didn't they? I'd expect they'd do the same here, were it to happen.

I read a report that said a 1811-12 New-Madrid type earthquake today would do about $160m damage, just to Louisville. Something as big as a 7.5 would have mass destruction all the way up to Chicago - where liquefaction could literally make the city sink into the lake.


EDIT: Here's an article about E-quake insurance in Kentucky that was written today:
http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2008/04/21/focus1.html?page=1

They've been saying for twenty years now a 'big one' is due. Insured or not, virtually no one is, the scale of destruction would likely make it moot. Our Government's response has been less than re-assuring in disasters of late. Then again, most places substantially insulated from natural disasters aren't worth living in unless you have substantial means.

You mean Homeland In-security can't protect you from a silly little earthquake?

CNN was a little off when it indicated there had been no major quakes in the area. Just look up the new madrid 'quake in 1811. That one made the Earth ring like a bell. O heard something about a blocked spreading zone in the area.

The fabled "Big One" is expected to pass within 1500 feet of my home. 97% chance in next 30 years.

Saw some pictures of damage in Louisville, heard it caused a few million in improvements.

I have spent the last hour typing 3 versions of a response to this. I have stopped for one basic reason....my views would express a side of my political beliefs that most of you would not agree with.

Let me boil down what I am trying to say. If a major quake hit the upper midwest there would be a response. Money talks.

I have spent the last hour typing 3 versions of a response to this. I have stopped for one basic reason....my views would express a side of my political beliefs that most of you would not agree with.

Let me boil down what I am trying to say. If a major quake hit the upper midwest there would be a response. Money talks.


are we related? we could be. i mean, many families have the tall good looking kid and the not so tall and not so good looking kid :eek:.

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as for the insurance issue. i have only been in the business for ten years. i know this much, if you live in the midwest AND have some type of EQ coverage you pay extra for it. no if and or butts about it. otherwise it is a standard exclusion of EVERY homeowners policy.

my thought is this that this is a close as you will ever get to using it. how much damage did you have again? later.

as for the insurance issue. i have only been in the business for ten years. i know this much, if you live in the midwest AND have some type of EQ coverage you pay extra for it. no if and or butts about it. otherwise it is a standard exclusion of EVERY homeowners policy.

my thought is this that this is a close as you will ever get to using it. how much damage did you have again? later.

Oh yes, I do pay extra for it - I don't think there's any company out there that doesn't have earthquakes as an exclusion, as you have said. But, I don't think the price I pay is too high (less than the cost of an ultegra brake caliper per year) for the piece of mind to know it's there. After all, isn't that how insurance people sell so much - for the piece of mind to now that you're covered, "just incase?" If it were more expensive, I probably wouldn't carry it.

Back to my college days (I graduated in '02), I had more than one geology professor go off on a tangent about how anyone living in central/southern Illinois was a moron if they didn't have an EQ policy. That stayed with me.

^^^^ makes sense. well, only if you already have some fresh Ultegra brake calipers :).

wow, did anyone just feel that?

only kidding.

later.

All my daydreams are disasters
She's the one I think I love
Rivers burn and then run backwards
For her, that's enough
[...]
Come on do what you did
Roll me under New Madrid
Shake my baby and please bring her back
'Cause death won't even be still
Caroms over the landfill
Buries us all in its broken back....
...........................................""New Madrid" - Uncle Tupelo

Great song. You have good taste, CyLowe97.