Wooooo......shake it up!

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Wooooo......shake it up!

Post by ihatemybike »

I live in Illinois, why the hell is an earthquake waking me up?

Magnitude 4.3 on the Richter Scale
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... index.html
Aaron

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Re: Wooooo......shake it up!

Post by LiftedAWDAstro »

Just a new alarm clock. :muhaha:
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Re: Wooooo......shake it up!

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That's fine, but it went off 2 minutes early.
Aaron

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Post by Kabey's Van »

4.3 :muhaha: :muhaha: :muhaha: That's not an earthquake,
just a mere tremor; let me know when things really start shaking.
4.3 :muhaha:

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Re: Wooooo......shake it up!

Post by Southern »

ihatemybike wrote:I live in Illinois, why the hell is an earthquake waking me up?

Magnitude 4.3 on the Richter Scale
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... index.html
The snow plow woke me up at 2:30 am but slept through the earthquake at 4:00 am.

Had a few pictures tip over other then that you couldn't even tell anything happened. Good thing our country enforces building codes unlike China and Haiti.
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Post by CaptSquid »

4.3???? I have bigger temblors when I break wind! 4.3 ain't nuthin! I was there when the World Series quake struck in 89.

We have bigger temblors here in Yellowstone!
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