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Dojo
02-10-2010, 04:46 AM
I DID.....................


By staff reports
Suburban Life Publications
Posted Feb 10, 2010 @ 04:32 AM
Last update Feb 10, 2010 @ 04:40 AM

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A magnitude 4.3 earthquake shook the Chicago suburbs and northern Illinois at 3:59 a.m. today, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Geological Survey's website. The quake appeared to be centered just east of Sycamore — about 15 miles west of St. Charles.

Immediately afterward, hundreds of users on the social-networking site Twitter were reporting the shaking from throughout the suburbs, from St. Charles to Lisle.

Austrian Econ Disciple
02-10-2010, 04:57 AM
Milwaukee here. Didn't feel a thing, but we are quite a ways away.

SelfTaught
02-10-2010, 05:29 AM
Chicago here. Didn't feel shit, but my electricity went out for a couple hours.

coyote_sprit
02-10-2010, 05:43 AM
Immediately afterward, hundreds of users on the social-networking site Twitter were reporting the shaking from throughout the suburbs, from St. Charles to Lisle.

Someone could do a large scale twitter bomb, and make people think there was a natural disaster when there really wasn't.

Dojo
02-10-2010, 05:48 AM
I not only felt it, I heard it, you could actually hear the rumbling this time!

People in Sycamore describe hearing expolsive sound.............umm

FindLiberty
02-10-2010, 08:20 AM
... felt it here, right at the edge of Woodridge / Downers Grove / Darien IL.

No big deal here. The snow capping the fences and those gutter / ice dam icicles
didn't fall off from the Earthquake vibrations. (you know it's a big one if you
ever find the lid to your toilet's water tank resting in the bathtub, so this was
not a big one.)

Maybe God was just looking for Obama... If so, is Washington DC gonna' be next?

sevin
02-10-2010, 08:23 AM
Damn, why are there so many frickin earthquakes lately?

PreDeadMan
02-10-2010, 08:27 AM
I felt it in my pockets. The earthquake of taxation and inflation

MelissaWV
02-10-2010, 08:27 AM
There are always a crapload of earthquakes. Two things, though:

1. Big earthquakes (we've had a few more than usual lately) will often trigger other earthquakes, even in seemingly unrelated areas around the world.
2. Sometimes it SEEMS we're having a whole lot more earthquakes, but they're just happening in more populated areas.

Cap'n Crunk
02-10-2010, 08:29 AM
Was just getting to work in downtown Chicago. Didn't feel any thing.

Dojo
02-10-2010, 08:39 AM
I felt it in my pockets. The earthquake of taxation and inflation

LOL........... That's just Chicago style politics your feeling!