Comments on: The “Fun” Continues

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:10:44 +0000

That is the real problem. The building codes for the Midwest weren’t designed for ‘quakes, and that can cause a disaster in a minor quake. Something that wouldn’t even rate a second of coverage in San Diego could devastate a city in Indiana.

I wouldn’t enjoy a 5.0 in the dorm where I lived at Indiana University.

By: Cookie Jill

Cookie Jill — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:28:07 +0000

Ha…those are piddly jiggles.

However, I feel slighly comforted knowing that I live in a part of the country where buildings are built to withstand a certain amount of shakin’ and bakin’.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:26:53 +0000

In our barracks in Alaska we had wire strung for the curtain that constituted our door. The wire would hum during minor ‘quakes. A guitar player among us could predict the strength based on the humming, but the pendulum is a better plan, Jack.

They seem to be coming on the same fault, LM, so I assume it’s just settling down.

By: LadyMin

LadyMin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:34:21 +0000

I felt the first one on Friday… it woke me up. I thought it was low flying aircraft and went back to sleep. Occasionally we get choppers buzzing the suburbs, which shakes the house and rattles the windows. Of course I was half asleep, so maybe that explains my lack of concern.

I haven’t felt any of the subsequent quakes here in Chicago, so hopefully they are only aftershocks and not a separate quake.

By: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester

Jack K., the Grumpy Forester — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:45:37 +0000

…well, if it comes to having to respond to the Hedgemony, I suppose the locals could build their own personal seismic detectors like we did back in the pre-intertubes days during the earthquake swarms prior to the Mt. St. Helens eruption. We took a few feet of plumb bob string, tied one end to a mechanical pencil, and tacked the other end to the office ceiling. It would sway gently in response to low-magnitude quakes that were just below the threshold of physically detectable…