VOLCANO MADNESS: Re: [Geology2] Hey we had a little earthquake here in WI...

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Re: [Geology2] Hey we had a little earthquake here in WI...

Well I don't know...we did not feel it here. But some folks in southern WI and Northern Ill sure did. It is so flat.. maybe the earth just shook a bit? Jiggled their jelly so to speak...lol. allison

From: Lin Kerns <linkerns@gmail.com>
To: geology2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Geology2] Hey we had a little earthquake here in WI...

I'm still trying to figure out how anyone felt it. If we had a 2.4 here, it would be so negligible, as to be nonexistent.

Lin

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Allison Loukanis <allison.m.loukanis@att.net> wrote:

Kenosha is near the Illinois border on the way to Chicago....no one in Milwaukee felt it. WI is known for its wuss earthquakes. Not that we want one, we don't...Allison

KENOSHA - A minor earthquake rattled part of southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the 2.4 magnitude earthquake struck just before 10:00 p.m. Monday night. The USGS says the epicenter was approximately 30 miles west southwest of Kenosha, in McHenry, Ill.

"I saw it on the news," said one person at Bristol Diner, near the Wisconsin/Illinois border.
"I said, 'Wow. We had an earthquake and I didn't even know it.' "
UWM seismologist Keith Sverdrup received more than 400 calls from people in Southeastern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois saying they felt the quake.
Sverdup explained that the quake was too small and too far away for the UWM seismograph to pick it up.

He explained that the 2.4 magnitude quake was normal for our region, but one element caught him off guard.
"What is surprising is its location," Sverdup told TODAY'S TMJ4's Melissa McCrady.

"It's not located, to the best of my knowledge, on any significant mapped faults in this region."
Several area police departments reported calls from people who felt the quake, but no one reported damage