Tuesday, June 29, 2004

 

I seriously thought she was insane

After finally posting about my foot the other night, I checked my sister's blog before turning in for the night. What I found was this post about how she thought they just felt an earthquake....in Racine, WI. Now, I realized that it would not be impossible, but I also knew that it was highly unlikely, so I set out to find out what really happened. It was very late so I didn't put a whole lot of effort into finding up-to-the-minute news for the area, which I didn't really have any luck with. So I decided to just try the earthquake theory, which, of course, took me to the USGS website where I found this. Just one month later (or a year earlier) and I would have been there to experience it, too. Poo.

Several people in this area (two from Ames specifically) have reported feeling weak shaking. I was awake at the time, but if we experienced shaking here then I didn't notice it. I'm still upset that I didn't get to feel it because I have the same fascination with earthquakes that my sister does, not to mention all that geology stuff. For two years I even lived in an area that has a great enough risk of earthquakes that we had earthquake procedures in our student handbook. But did I get anything? Nope. They felt one the summer before I went down there, but not once when I was there. :-P

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