Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The Earth Moved
Earthquake woke me up at 03:58. Laid awake for a while trying to decide whether it was a quake or one of those new, really quiet snowplows. Turned out to be a 4.3 centered near Sycamore IL, down there bei DeKalb. The upper midwest isn't known for earthquakes, but we do have one now and then.
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Weird, isn't it? We had one last year and it woke me up during the night. I thought it was a garbage truck going by. Only later did I realize what happened.
I believe that one was centered somewhere in Southern IL, if I remember correctly.
Huh, I don't think I would've expected you to feel it all the way in Madison. You're a good 150 miles from Chicago, aren't you?
It was weird. I think we had a similar one a couple of years back, and I distinctly remember one way back in 1988.
Fritz, it's about 120 miles to downtown Chicago as the crow flies, but about 85 to the epicenter. A lot of people at work said it didn't wake them up.
I live on Madison's east side and I believe that the earthquake woke me up too, indirectly. My eleven month old son woke up at 4am. At the time, I thought that he was just waking up for a snack.
I would have thought snow plow too. Everytime, for some reason, it shakes my house, which is stone, when they plow by.
Mmmmmmm....eeeaarrrrthquaaaake snaaaack....
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