Earthquake Tremors in Chicago

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by supernerdgirl

I felt it. I thought i was having some crazy dream until the news started blathering about it.

Me too actually.

[neonwattagelimit]

I was woken up in them middle of the night, me living on the fourth floor of one of them walk-ups. I thought 'what the hell is that, it feels like an earthquake, weird,' and went back to bed. This morning my mom called me and said she heard there was an earthquake in Illinois, so I checked the Tribune website and, lo and behold, quake! It was pretty interesting.

I think I experienced a tremor once back home as part of a very small earthquake. There's a fault line that runs through Harlem.

[cobolt]

I just want to give a shout out from the west coast to all my rock and roll homies experiencing the earthquake. My first experiences were when I was stationed on Guam and then the San Fran quake in the late 80's. Who knew I didn't need to travel so far when if I stayed in CHicago and waited a while, I'd eventually experience it.

Hope you guys are doing okay. Pretty freaky though.

[Sailaway50]

Live in a super large 50 plus story steel & glass building. None of the three of us felt anything. No signs of quake and we are light sleepers in general.

This building makes tremendous adjustmentes (that's a GOOD thing) in the wind, and if it's from the South in our case, we hear sometimes tremendous noises (I lived in a cement and glass high rise years ago, and it didn't make these noises, but swayed more and the water swayed in the toilets) Here, the inner vents make a (sheet metal?) banging sound. That usually wakes us up, but it didn't if there was one this a.m.

We're totally used to it and think it's fine...kind of fun.

In a big wind, the medicine cabinet doors also open.

None of this happened during this quake..

I wonder if it had something to do with being north of the Chgo River???

[CarolinaBredChicagoan]

Originally Posted by Sailaway50

Live in a super large 50 plus story steel & glass building. None of the three of us felt anything. No signs of quake and we are light sleepers in general.

This building makes tremendous adjustmentes (that's a GOOD thing) in the wind, and if it's from the South in our case, we hear sometimes tremendous noises (I lived in a cement and glass high rise years ago, and it didn't make these noises, but swayed more and the water swayed in the toilets) Here, the inner vents make a (sheet metal?) banging sound. That usually wakes us up, but it didn't if there was one this a.m.

We're totally used to it and think it's fine...kind of fun.

In a big wind, the medicine cabinet doors also open.

None of this happened during this quake..

I wonder if it had something to do with being north of the Chgo River???

Considering how far away the epicenter was (near West Salem in southern IL), I doubt being north or south of the river would matter much.

[Sailaway50]

Originally Posted by CarolinaBredChicagoan

Considering how far away the epicenter was (near West Salem in southern IL), I doubt being north or south of the river would matter much.

I was surprised considering previous posts from people who seemed to feel it quite strongly in the Chicago area.

[via chicago]

aftershocks have been going on all morning

[CarolinaBredChicagoan]

Originally Posted by Sailaway50

I was surprised considering previous posts from people who seemed to feel it quite strongly in the Chicago area.

Oh, it was certainly felt here. I felt it. However, my point was that it was a 5.4 with an epicenter 250 miles away. They felt it in St. Louis, Indy, Louisville, etc. A river wouldn't do much to change whether you felt it or not.

[via chicago]

This is a map of the 1895 quake. By comparison, the 1811 quake was more along the lines of an 8.0