Weather and Other Stuff » midwest http://www.deth.org interesting weather, gadgets and other observations Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:21:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ilinois Earthquake http://www.deth.org/2008/04/18/ilinois-earthquake/ http://www.deth.org/2008/04/18/ilinois-earthquake/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:48:00 +0000 Carl http://www.deth.org/?p=270 It’s not something that happens all too often but an earthquake occurred in Illinois this morning.  Of course my first thought was whether it was on the new midrid fault but it wasn’t.

It registered 5.2 on the Richter scale and doesn’t seem to have caused any major damage.  It looks like there have been four aftershocks.

one has to wonder how many of the people that live there are aware of the New Madrid fault

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