Earthquake !!!!

[SteamWake]

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake hits......... Chicago !!! :o

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Breaking-News-Earthquake-Shakes-Chicagoland-84000302.html

Wow what in the heck? A few days ago there was a thread about the elevated activity in the Grand Canyon region, a killer earthquake in the carribian and now central Illonois? :06:

[Tribesman]

The first Chicago earthquake for 6 whole years.
Shocking
I think its gods punishment on Illinois for harbouring Obama while he was waitng to sieze the nation

[Task Force]

LOL, guess Newyork is next, so they can make a movie out of it.:rotfl2:

[Oberon]

:hmmm: Hmmm, that's different, not entirely unexpected, I mean the UK gets the odd 3-6 pointer quake (although I've always been asleep or away when it's happened) because of minor faults so it's probably the same for Chicago. :yep:

[SteamWake]

I wasent aware that region even had earthquakes... still.. it seems like there is an elevated amount of activity accross the globe. Maybe its just a hightened awareness.

Maybe its Bush's fault and global warming :hmmm::O:

[yubba]

wonder if fearless leaders will say anything about this I guess that's Obma's home town. ok try 1778 quakes inside yellowstone volcano largest 3.8:woot::woot: in the last month. check sos surfs up in yellowstone in this forum

[frau kaleun]

There are at least two active seismic zones in the US Midwest. Small tremors and quakes are not unknown or all that unusual, altho IME they're not something we expect with the same level of awareness as folks along the San Andreas fault, for instance. There have been 3-4 that I remember feeling here in SW Ohio in the past 25 years or so.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/New_Madrid_and_Wabash_seizmic_zones-USGS.png/547px-New_Madrid_and_Wabash_seizmic_zones-USGS.png

More serious seismic activity is a possibility in the case of both, there is at least some geological evidence that it's happened with the Wabash Valley zone. For the New Madrid zone, there was a well documented series of 7+ magnitude quakes in the early 1800s, one of which was strong enough to cause a wave in the Mississippi that flowed upstream and to create geological shifts that left waterfalls and lakes where there weren't any before.

[Weiss Pinguin]

*Insert HAARP conspiracy theory here*