WTF Earthquake o_O

[Defeat]

I think I just experienced my first real earthquake. I live in central Illinois and a friend says he felt it too. D: Anyone else feel anything if your around my area? :0

[dub]

You dirty man! I'm not going to try and feel anything around "your area" thank you very much. :mad:

[Defeat]

rofl :} It's alright, we can go in this back room to do it.

[Slainchild]

lol erfkwayk

[Defeat]

Ya, I guess there really was one.

http://www.legitreviews.com/news/4720/

[BillyBadAss]

I felt it here in Dayton, OH. It woke me up. The building was making cracking sounds and stuff around my bedroom was rattling. From the moment I woke up I would say it lasted about 10 to 15 seconds.

On the news they are saying it was a 5.4.

[Defeat]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008qza6.html

[FlashIV]

We have some large manufacturing plants here in Decatur, IL. I thought it might have been some big explosion...

Ah Illinois, freezing one day, sunburns the next, floods, tornadoes, ice storms, and now earthquakes :con:

[Defeat]

Heh, that's what I thought for a while too since I have a plastic plant near me.

[ambershee]

I got woken up by a recycling center five miles away spontaneously turning into a 350m crater once.

Moral of the story, watch what you throw in your bins!

[Kou]

Yeah... I'm pretty certain my roommates were yelling at each other to "stop moving **** around."

[GotBeer?]

I got woken up by a recycling center five miles away spontaneously turning into a 350m crater once.

Moral of the story, watch what you throw in your bins!
I require more detailed info before I can recreate the boom.

[ambershee]

I believe someone threw away some sort of partially empty gas canister, which didn't get sifted.

Bah, can't find an article, it was years ago :(

[[VaLkyR]Anubis]

Argh,earthquakes,these things are not very good,I hope there was not anything destroyed or damaged.I hope I never get these things in germany.;)

Take care Defeat!:)

[Jacks:SmirkingRevenge]

Hey I felt this too. I go to college in Edwardsville, Illinois.

The 90 second initial quake woke me up @ 4:40 in the AM and this morning while getting ready for class there was a good after shock, about 10:15.

[Kantham]

What's 5.2 like? Enough to take a picture off the wall?

[UBerserker]

I just experienced one big explosion found a KM from my house, this night. The BOOM ruined my sleep :-)

[Sindarin]

Anyone else feel anything if your around my area? :0

I didn't feel anything.

[Jacks:SmirkingRevenge]

What's 5.2 like? Enough to take a picture off the wall?

Hardly. Nothing in my house fell or really even budged. The shaking was enough to wake me up sure, but nothing appeared effected.

I think a book fell of a case but it was already near the edge :p

Our neighbors, whose house is built on dirt that was trucked in and piled on (very stupid idea to begin with) have seen their backyard begin to fall away already. During the after shock I watched chunks of dirt begin to slide down their hill.

Fools.

[SlayerDragon]

Hardly. Nothing in my house fell or really even budged. The shaking was enough to wake me up sure, but nothing appeared effected.

I think a book fell of a case but it was already near the edge :p

Our neighbors, whose house is built on dirt that was trucked in and piled on (very stupid idea to begin with) have seen their backyard begin to fall away already. During the after shock I watched chunks of dirt begin to slide down their hill.

Fools.

:lol: That doesn't sound like it was "to code"

[GotBeer?]

I've just been told that some people here at work felt the 1015 aftershock. I'm in the middle of Iowa.

[Zxanphorian]

Damn, I wish I could have felt it, but I was too far away in State College, PA. :( Someday though, I want to feel an earthquake.

[evilmrfrank]

State College? You ever heard of Port Allegany? :D

[Jacks:SmirkingRevenge]

:lol: That doesn't sound like it was "to code"

Eh, in the case of constructing a house on a hill using land that has been hard packed as opposed to natural, solid earth there is no such thing as "to code."

Look all over California where them rich dumbasses build those large houses on trucked in dirt. That sh*t starts sliding away every time there's a quake there above 3 or 4 on the scale. It's just a bad idea anywhere you do it.

If the land isn't sound enough to support a large structure then that should be the end of the idea right there. Hauling in a bunch of loose earth from somewhere else and shoving it together doesn't create a foundation with any staying power.

[ZenPirate]

If the land isn't sound enough to support a large structure then that should be the end of the idea right there

Don't tell that to anyone in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, or several cities in California ;)

[SleepyHe4d]

Wimps, a 30 megaton nuke went off 50 miles north of my house.

[Zxanphorian]

State College? You ever heard of Port Allegany? :D

Nope, I only go to State College for school at Penn State University. I'm from the southeast part of PA.

[Thrash123]

Felt it here in Hannibal, Missouri. Thought it was my neighbors upstairs having rough drunk sex again at first, but it only lasted 10 seconds this time :D