Earthquake

[jasonsnene]

 Whoa!  Ever been woken up by an earthquake?  I hadn't either...until this morning.  I thought I was having a seizure!  Then I thought a car or something had run into my house.  What?  I'm not my most creative at 5:30 am!!  No damage or anything and the news said the tremor only lasted for 10 seconds.  Wild stuff.

I've not been home all week and apparently my LJ notifications aren't coming through.  So I'm sure I"ve missed tons of stuff on the flist.  I'll try to go back through and catch up but....don't know how much time I'll have.

I'm going to work on Missing this morning some so that I'll have something to post today at spring_with_xan.   I was hoping to complete the series today but that's not going to happen.  I'll have to request a 3rd day.  Sorry!  I really thought I'd be able to get it done but RL has interfered yet again.

I'll hopefully be back online (and IM) this weekend but I don't have any definite plans yet. 

Comments

[ladysybylgrey.livejournal.com]

So, I'm guessing you live in the southern part of Illinois or Indiana? Don't stress too much, I'm a geology nut and get emails about earthquakes all over the world. The early morning highlight today was a 5.2 in the northern part of the New Madrid Seismic Zone, ie southern Illinois.

You should be fine, but if you get any stronger tremblers, you should have stuff like your plumbing and foundation looked at, just to be on the safe side. You should probably walk the walls in your house and look for cracking anyway, as many homes in the Zone were not built to the more strenous codes that are required in say, California, and could be more vulnerable.

Glad you are doing ok, can't wait for more of Missing, even if not all of it...

G

[jasonsnene.livejournal.com]

Northern Indiana actually. It amazes me that we felt it so far away. We haven't felt anything else so I'm hoping this morning was it. Thanks for the info!! None of us know what to do. This is our first quake.

[ladysybylgrey.livejournal.com]

yeah, not surprising that you felt it that far away, but most likely, you won't have structural damage. A quick check of any plaster or stucco should do you fine. If you were closer, I'd be more concerned, but not really...

Here's the United States Geological Survey (USGS) website that will show the most recent quakes as a map... http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/270_40.php

Check it out!

G