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Earthquake Rattles…Indiana

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake has hit Indiana. Yes, you read that right. The quake, originally reported as a 4.2, has not caused any injuries or damages.

The US Geological Society gives the details:

Earthquake Rattles...Indiana

CNN:

The quake struck just before 8 a.m. ET and was three miles deep, according to the USGS.

The epicenter was located about 15 miles east-southeast of Kokomo, 15 miles west-southwest from Marion and 50 miles north of Indianapolis.

There were no reports of damage in Indianapolis, but closer to the epicenter residents reported being rattled.

“Funny, I thought one of my kids ran into a wall, and lo and behold, it was just a 4.2-magnitude earthquake in Indiana,” one person wrote on Twitter.

The Daily Herald:

Some people in the Chicago area said they felt shaking from the earthquake, though it’s unclear if a 4.2 magnitude quake in Central Indiana could be felt as far west as Cook County.

In comparison, a 7.0 earthquake that was registered in Haiti in January of 2010 is 100 times stronger than the quake felt in Indiana this morning, officials from the U.S. Geological Society said.

This isn’t the first quake felt in the Midwest in the past year. A 3.8-magnitude quake shook the [Chicago] suburbs for seven seconds just before dawn on Feb. 10.

The earthquake’s epicenter was about three miles beneath a farm field a short distance south of Pingree Grove, near Route 20 and Switzer Road in western Kane County.

Comments (46)

  • Nixit
    Posted on December 31, 2010 at 2:08pm

    @Democratgirl
    Why and how did you make the leap from an Indiana earthquake to Alex Jones? Sounds like you have some axe to grind or outward hatred which just needed released……..I get it…Like an earthquake!

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on December 31, 2010 at 2:36am

    http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2010/December20/2093.html

    Great article on 2010 disasters! Not that disasters are great.

    Report Post » ChiefGeorge  
  • dontbotherme
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 11:18pm

    My first earthquake experience was in Utah about 10 years ago. I don’t remember what the magnitude was (we were there for about a week), but we had to repair holes in corners & around doors that I could almost walk through. Didn’t care for it much. Glad I’m back in tornado land (unfortunately Illinois).

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  • hikinggussie
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:34pm

    it shook our log bed. thought I was dreaming, but got up and watched Fox News and realized it had really happened.

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  • Gribbit
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 7:34pm

    A caller to the Ft. Wayne radio station 98.9 the Bear said that he thought it was his mother-in-law coming down the stairs… LOL…

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  • Reagan was Right
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 4:38pm

    This quake happened just east of my families childhood hometown of Center.

    A little trivia,the quake happened almost exactly half way between Cincinnati and Chicago.

    That is how Center got its name.

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  • ALISSTER
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 1:02pm

    I live in Northwest Indiana and in my basement at the time. I didn’t feel a thing. Anyone in Chicago that says they felt it probably felt Oprah taking her morning dump.

    Report Post » ALISSTER  
  • Akira Gomi
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 12:44pm

    Hopefully there will be a massive devastating earth quake near Chicago and open the reactor west near rockford. Hopefully Barry and family with Rahman will get a large does of some sunshine up there progressive grease holes..

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  • WBOB
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 12:33pm

    Here in Indiana…a 3.8 jolt….yaawwwn. wait still spring starts…then we get play dodge’m with them pesky twisters.

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  • clh1217
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 11:48am

    any earthquake in the midwest causes pee to run down our legs. That is just “un natural”. LOL.

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  • antirino
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 11:21am

    That was an attempt to roll the progressives across the state line to Illinois where they seem to be gathered together. On the next one hang on tight conservatives!

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 11:13am

    Shake, rattle and role.

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  • the_ancient
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:48am

    I live about 50 miles south and I slept through it..

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  • wodiej
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:41am

    I live in Indiana and felt the house shake but nothing major. I knew right away what it was. And yes, we get some ferocious storms in the Spring.

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  • Ronko
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:33am

    4.2 is nothing so Indiana can call themselves lucky.

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    • chips1
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 8:45pm

      We in the south have more important things to worry about. UFO’s. There everywhere. Wait till you get probed. Oh yea’ Forgot about airport screening.

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  • jacobstroubles
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:29am

    Yes, and there was an EQ outside of Portland Oregond this early AM as well.
    Keep your eyes on what is going on over at the USGS..
    The Pacific Plate is primed.
    There is a huge potential for a Mega thrust event (9+) to occur in/around the
    Casscadia Subduction Zone..
    There is/has been little to no plate pressure releif in the way of siemic activity..all of it has
    been around all other points…
    Anybody care hazard a guess as to what happens when all the pressure is placed at one point,
    becasue pressure/shifting is occuring at other points?…. Guess…anybody?
    I gave big hint..above…

    This could be a Trigger Event…causing a chain reaction down the west coast…“String Event”.

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    • AnOregonian
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 11:32am

      True enough we are over due for another ‘big one’ on the west coast, however there is no conformation of a looming event. Mt St Helens is still inactive, there is no increase in the bulge on the flanks of the southern third sisters. no increase in hot spring activity. These small sub 5.0 quakes occur weekly here. Both on land and off shore.

      If you vies a map of the pacific northwest, you can see how the Columbia river turns north before heading west again to the sea. There is plate movement out here in two directions. The subduction west to east and plate movement south to north. The tension you suggest is occurring on the pacific plate is being mitigated by the movement south to north. With these two factors in play a coming EQ event will most likely be in the 6.0 to 7.0 range. We won’t be falling into the sea anytime soon, rather Astoria will just keep creeping north.

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    • gunkgy
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 8:53pm

      Anoregonian,

      Remember, Mt. St. Helens is not the only volacano in Washington. We have Mt.St. Helens of course, then Mt Baker, Glacier peak, Mt. Rainer and Mt. Adams.

      Of course you have 16 in Oregon. So earth quakes are only one problem. Imagine if a few of those volcanos woke up.

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  • norcalart
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:05am

    A 3.8 quake is nothing, go back to what you were doing before the quake. Now your tornadoes are another thing, they do more damage !

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  • rappini
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:55am

    I think that is the second Quake in two years for Indiana.

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  • BeckIsNuts
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:55am

    Still no news on Warren Jeffs here on The Blaze. Interesting.

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  • Johnnyp1958
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:50am

    Who cares but just a note I love spicy indian food especially chicken tandori. If you have a chance one day to try this dish with that flat bread thats served with it you must try it , it’s D LISH

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  • PatriotDave
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:50am

    It rattled the pictures on the walls, but that was about it. With everything else going on in the world, nothing to get excited about. Gotta check the bricks on the house for damage. Then back to life.

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  • mcFirst
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:48am

    I’ve called Jack and Diane they are fine.

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    • Oh, God!
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:54am

      That would be Jack and Gloria to me. I have relatives in Kokomo.

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  • guyperram
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:46am

    Unusual, but earthquakes in the Midwest happen several times a year. usually smaller than this though (not that this was very big).

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    • Hobo Boondocks
      Posted on January 1, 2011 at 10:54am

      Fasten your seatbelts earth people, 2011 is going to be a bumpy ride. As this is being written, global warmers are now trying to figure out how to link earthquakes occurring in unusual places to “climate change.” I can hear the news reports now, “ The earth’s crust is heating up and expanding rapidly in some places and in others it’s contracting because of the cold. Therefore, more and greater magnitude earthquakes are occurring.” Yeeeaah….. That’s the ticket. And our only hope is to pass legislation to redistribute wealth.

       
  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:46am

    Rath God Rumbles

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    • BubbaCoop
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:59am

      Is that like wrath?

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    • Shurmus
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:06am

      Bubba…Hi…

      No…it’s more along the lines of eyer, aingst, stryff, or gel-osi.

      Peace

      Report Post » Shurmus  
    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:36am

      Relentless Attack Towards Hinduism

      Report Post » poverty.sucks  
    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:44am

      Stinkin’ Hoosiers……!!!!

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    • Lantern
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 11:50am

      People from Indiana drive like they are always in an earthquake :-)

      Lantern  
    • DimmuBorgir
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 12:07pm

      does anyone even care about hinduism??

      Report Post » DimmuBorgir  
    • democratgirl
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 12:43pm

      mtnclimberjim
      ALEX JONES IS NOTHING MORE THAN SENSATIONALISM AND GRAND CONJECTURE. He has these twilight zone epiphanies. I would not trust a thing Mr. Jones CLAIMS.

      Report Post » ChildOfTheKing  
    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 1:01pm

      2010 is not over and you will notice that it was one of the most troubling record setting year on record.

      Report Post » ChiefGeorge  
    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 1:15pm

      @Fletch

      I have heard a series of small quakes have started in the area again; sounds like the fault line may be firing up again for the big ones in the area. If I remember correctly, it was three massive ones that wiped out towns and rerounted the mississippi river for a large area.

      Report Post » Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 1:16pm

      Also, to show just how fun things can be in AZ, we have a nuclear plant built dead on top of a small fault line as well – they did not find it until after it was up and running (the plant).

      Report Post » Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • Hoosier Daddy
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 1:21pm

      Hey Lantern, we have to drive like that to avoid colliding with those drunks who wander down from Michigan.

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    • SICKANTIRED
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 1:46pm

      Can u say 2012…lol it’s right around the corner

      SICKANTIRED  
    • TruthLover
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 3:14pm

      Nope – didn’t feel a thing! And we’re not too far from the epicenter. However, at least one of my friends from church noticed. Nothing major. The whole earth quakes…the whole earth quakes….

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    • vngstr
      Posted on December 31, 2010 at 10:40am

      Felt the quake in my fourth floor hotel room in Chicago Midway around 8:15.

      vngstr  

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