Thank you everyone! I sent Kimi a picture of the ring (it isnt very good) so she'll have it up at some point, yay! Now, how would I go about bringing up dates to him? lol
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH/AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey says the strongest follow up tremor had a magnitude of 4.5. It says the quake was centered in southern Illinois, about 45 miles from Evansville, Indiana.
It was felt in cities as far away as Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Atlanta. Officials in Chicago are inspecting structures downtown for damage. The quake also shook skyscrapers in downtown Indianapolis.
No major injuries or damage are being reported, but one woman was trapped in her home when her porch collapsed. Some bricks also fell off buildings in Louisville, Kentucky.
Geophysicist Randy Baldwin at the U.S. Geological Survey says the quake was "fairly large" for the region, but might occur "every few years."
The initial earthquake hit with a magnitude of 5.2 around 5:36 a.m. Friday. Since then, there have been a number of aftershocks starting about 2.2, 2.5, 2.6. Then around 11:15 a.m., a 4.5 magnitude aftershock was felt in Central Indiana.
24-Hour News 8 at Noon interviewed Michael Hamburger, a geologist with Indiana University. Here is a transcript of that interview:
Hamburger: It has been a busy day for us down here.
News 8: Let's start with the first earthquake this morning, the one that happened at 5:38, put that in perspective in terms of what that means for Indiana.
Hamburger: This is certainly a significant earthquake for us. I suppose on the global scale it would be considered a moderate earthquake, an earthquake of this size happens every few days somewhere around the globe, but most are in remote areas under the ocean or whatever. This is probably the largest earthquake that has been recorded in the central or eastern United States for the past 30 or 40 years. It is, you know, as you've gotten reports, it has been felt all around the Midwest with strong shaking in southwestern Indiana and southern Illinois.
News 8: Let's talk about a lot of folks are very familiar with the New Madrid Fault but there's also something called the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone. Are those two related? How does this earthquake fit in to those scenarios?
Hamburger: Those who have been in the Midwest for a while, probably know about the New Madrid earthquake zone, the site of three very large of 7+ magnitude earthquakes in the early 19th century. That is the zone centered around the Mississippi River Valley, western Tennessee and Kentucky and northeastern Arkansas, southeastern Missouri. We're on the northern periphery of that shown and a somewhat different seismic zone around the Wabash River Valley and it is the site of not such larger earthquakes, but a fairly regular sequence of moderate-sized earthquakes happening about every ten years or so over the past century and this is the largest one we've had since 1968 earthquake in southern Illinois.
News 8: Can we expect aftershocks this afternoon?
Hamburger: Absolutely, this looks like a very active sequence and we've already recorded about a dozen and more to come.
I just heard that the earthquake last night was just a tremor and that we should all expect something more and possibly devastating... The one last night affected supposedly four states in a 450 mile radius. The last major earthquake was really bad and took out whole towns and even pushed up the great lakes... so hopefuly nothing like that happens, ya know?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH There was an earthquake and it scared me to death! It shook the WHOLE APARTMENT complex!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't know what was going on... it really was freaky! Dakota didn't like it either, he kept running to the door and barking. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I am finally getting a job! Im so excited I can't wait! Ive been waiting for this for a long time... Now I feel more like I have a place in this world, Thank You God! I cried... lol
