Bob McCarty Writes

The 5.2-magnitude earthquake that struck a northern portion of the New Madrid Seismic Zone Friday put cracks in a purported theory that the fault zone is “cold and dying,” according to the experts at the Institute for Business & Home Safety.
While the earthquake, centered five miles northeast of Bellmont, Ill., did not result in major [...]

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After being awakened by a rare Midwest earthquake at 4:37 a.m. Central this morning and blogging about it all morning, I decided there’s enough interest in the 5.2 tremblor that a t-shirt was in order; hence, the “I SURVIVED THE GREAT QUAKE OF ‘08″ t-shirt is now available in several varieties. To get yours, [...]

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Is this ironic or what? On the same day as people in the Midwest experienced a rare 5.4 earthquake (see links below for details), the lead story on the “This Day in History” RSS feed from History.com is about an earth -shaker that took place in 1906:

The Great San Francisco Earthquake
At 5:13 a.m., an [...]

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A U.S. Geological Survey map (below) shows the epicenter of the earthquake that awakened people as far away as St. Louis at approximately 4:40 a.m. this morning was located at or near Olney, Ill.

UPDATE 4-18-08 7:27 a.m. Central: Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey have updated the information about the earthquake, estimating it measured [...]

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I was right. In my post earlier, I estimated the earthquake that awakened me this morning was at least a 3.5 to 4.0 on the Richter Scale. News accounts at 5 a.m. confirmed it, saying that a preliminary 5.4 measurement is being given to the tremblor that was centered approximately 120 miles east [...]

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