kevlon62 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Did anyone else feel that? Almost like a solid quick rumble of thunder. Could hear it rolling away. Two others here at the house also felt/heard it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastFromTheEast Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 From Skilling's FB page... "No confirmation of an earthquake from USGS (U.S. Geological Survey--the official clearinghouse for earthquake reports)--but our news desk here at WGN has also received some reports of some kind of disturbance and the Waconda Police Police reports getting 50 calls on some sort of disturbance as well. If/when we get more, we'll post it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 USGS didn't report anything in the region... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Earthquake in extreme SE Wisconsin, now up on USGS page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 about 10mi WSW of Kenosha magnitude 2.4 depth of 6.2miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I actually heard a rumbling noise for about two minutes here shortly after the time recorded, but I'm not sure it was related. Not every day there's an earthquake within 55 miles of Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Earthquake in extreme SE Wisconsin, now up on USGS page. confirmed 2.4 quake up there. Lots of reports of it coming into the WGN weather center tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevlon62 Posted January 31, 2012 Author Share Posted January 31, 2012 Earthquake in extreme SE Wisconsin, now up on USGS page. That makes sense, the audible low roll was moving away in a southwesterly direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usc0007u9c.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Awesome! Too bad I didn't feel it. That's like 10 miles from here! Earthquake Details This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude 2.4 Date-Time Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 03:54:43 UTC Monday, January 30, 2012 at 09:54:43 PM at epicenter Location 42.526°N, 88.032°W Depth 9.9 km (6.2 miles) Region WISCONSIN Distances 4 km (2 miles) ENE (57°) from Lake Shangrila, WI 7 km (4 miles) NE (43°) from Antioch, IL 8 km (5 miles) SE (132°) from Paddock Lake, WI 16 km (10 miles) WSW (248°) from Kenosha, WI 59 km (37 miles) S (186°) from Milwaukee, WI 82 km (51 miles) NNW (339°) from Chicago, IL Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 11.7 km (7.3 miles); depth +/- 6.4 km (4.0 miles) Parameters NST= 6, Nph= 11, Dmin=187 km, Rmss=1.09 sec, Gp=173°, M-type="Nuttli" surface wave magnitude (mbLg), Version=4 Source Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) Event ID usc0007u9c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I can't find any seismographs that detected it. I wonder if they put the quake up from the reports alone, especially since it popped up so late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 That makes sense, the audible low roll was moving away in a southwesterly direction. I know there was a good one centered somewhere up by De Kalb or just west of there last year, and you cannot mistake that audible roll/rumbling sound once you've heard it. And you hear it get closer, closer, and then it comes on through and shakes good. I guess in California and other places they don't notice it as much probably due to the topography and make up of the bedrock and what not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I know there was a good one centered somewhere up by De Kalb or just west of there last year, and you cannot mistake that audible roll/rumbling sound once you've heard it. And you hear it get closer, closer, and then it comes on through and shakes good. I guess in California and other places they don't notice it as much probably due to the topography and make up of the bedrock and what not. Exactly. The ground is so fractured in CA, that the energy is not transferred from one plate to the other very well. You get a earthquake on a large plate, energy will be able to travel much further and it will dissapate more gradually. I felt the one near DeKalb, that was a 4.5 magnitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDude Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Sitting on the couch with my wife at the time. Didn't feel anything, none of our 5 orchid plants even budged... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Exactly. The ground is so fractured in CA, that the energy is not transferred from one plate to the other very well. You get a earthquake on a large plate, energy will be able to travel much further and it will dissapate more gradually. I felt the one near DeKalb, that was a 4.5 magnitude. I guess I still remember some things from my geology class, lol!!! I guess the plate being fractured is a factor in that. I know that the waves of shaking are transferred much better in the middle and Eastern parts of the country when one occurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Epicenter was under Bristol, WI. I've heard of earthquake making noise, but never in one direction like that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevlon62 Posted January 31, 2012 Author Share Posted January 31, 2012 Epicenter was under Bristol, WI. I've heard of earthquake making noise, but never in one direction like that before. Yeah, that effect Justin described was exactly what we had. There was no mistaking. My brother a couple rooms over on the north end of the parent's house had a better listen to the sound as it approached. He compared it to a semi truck rumbling off in the distance. Just left Jewel in town where a guy described it as a train moving through. Kind of wish I was outside in the balmy, quiet, clear night to hear and feel it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 i was outside at the time...didn't feel/hear a damn thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 There was an earthquake south of MKE in the 1940's. Other than that I'm not sure how much activity there has been in that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 i was outside at the time...didn't feel/hear a damn thing. It's 2.4...what did you expect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Yeah, that effect Justin described was exactly what we had. There was no mistaking. My brother a couple rooms over on the north end of the parent's house had a better listen to the sound as it approached. He compared it to a semi truck rumbling off in the distance. Just left Jewel in town where a guy described it as a train moving through. Kind of wish I was outside in the balmy, quiet, clear night to hear and feel it again. Hmmm, I could have heard it and not realized it. I'm not too far away from the train tracks that run along the Des Plaines River. Lol, I was really concentrating on looking at the GFS run at the time! I know someone who lives like right over the epicenter. I'll see tomorrow if they experienced anything. Who knows, maybe will get another tremor. Possibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 i was outside at the time...didn't feel/hear a damn thing. Matt Petkovic reported crumbling structures just outside of Elgin. Sorry, couldn't resist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Hmmm, I could have heard it and not realized it. I'm not too far away from the train tracks that run along the Des Plaines River. Lol, I was really concentrating on looking at the GFS run at the time! I know someone who lives like right over the epicenter. I'll see tomorrow if they experienced anything. Who knows, maybe will get another tremor. Possibility. foreshock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 It's 2.4...what did you expect? i'm 0/3 in area quakes the past several years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Matt Petkovic reported crumbling structures just outside of Elgin. Sorry, couldn't resist. lol. going to take a while to rebuild...have to watch for after shocks too. ohhhh noezzzz....that might have been a foreshock!!!111!11! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 i'm 0/3 in area quakes the past few years. I've felt a couple. There have been about 5 that were felt by people around here in the past several years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 The last and only time I remember feeling a quake around here was sometime in the late 80s when I was just a kid. My brother and I had just got done mowing my grandmas lawn in Moline, and were inside cooling off. Suddenly the whole house started shifting and making an eerie creaking sound. We ran outside to find others running outside of their houses wondering what the hell was going on. I can't remember what it was rated, but I remember it was centered somewhere down near Lawrenceville IL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 The last and only time I remember feeling a quake around here was sometime in the late 80s when I was just a kid. My brother and I had just got done mowing my grandmas lawn in Moline, and were inside cooling off. Suddenly the whole house started shifting and making an eerie creaking sound. We ran outside to find others running outside of their houses wondering what the hell was going on. I can't remember what it was rated, but I remember it was centered somewhere down near Lawrenceville IL. I'm surprised you didn't feel that one near Peru in 2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 foreshock Haha. The one that occurred near DeKalb and Ottawa several years back shook up the area a bit better. Was a 4.5 or 4.6, occurred at about midnight. I was up - felt a little jolt and a yard stick that I had leaning against the wall felt over. I think the house creeked a little too. Nothing like the West Coast quakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I'm surprised you didn't feel that one near Peru in 2004. Hmmm, can't remember that one. There's a lot of 2004 that I can't remember though lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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