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A magnitude 4.3 earthquake hit early Wednesday in the far western suburbs of Chicago.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake struck at 3:59 a.m. in the Kane County town Virgil, about 48 miles west of Chicago.
Kane County sheriff's spokesman Lt. Pat Gengler says dispatchers have been flooded with calls from startled residents, though no injuries or damage have been reported.
Gengler says several residential and business alarms were triggered, but deputies hadn't been called for assistance.
National Earthquake Center geophysicist Randy Baldwin said as of 5 a.m., there had been no reports of any damage.
"I guess if there is damage, it would probably be light, or something based upon fallen objects or something like that," he said.
A 4.3-magnitude quake wouldn't be expected to do severe damage, Baldwin said.
"It would have been felt by many people indoors, and it would have felt like a vibration due to a heavily-loaded passing truck or something like that," Baldwin said.
The earthquake was felt widely throughout the region, as far away as Iowa, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin, Baldwin said.
Residents reported being shaken out of bed and finding books and tools scattered across the floor after falling from shelves.
Viewers have been sending e-mails to CBS station WBBM-TV and posting on Twitter by the dozens about the quake. They reported feeling the earthquake in Elgin, Bolingbrook, Naperville, and several other far west, northwest and southwest suburbs.
"I live 6 miles from Virgil. At 4 a.m. the house shook as well as the bed I was sleeping in," wrote Kathy Ghawi. "My husband and I searched the house and outside for the source of the shaking; we thought something hit the house - a truck or airplane? Then we figured out it must have been an earthquake. Unbelievable. Snow fell off the roof."
"Out of nowhere, my house started to shake very hard for about 10 seconds then stopped, then went again for about 8-10 seconds… I didn't know what was going on," wrote viewer Nick Howson of Hoffman Estates. "I thought a snow plow might have crashed into my house."
Viewer Y. Dinwiddie of Batavia wrote: "It was so violent that a basket full of clothes that was sitting on our dryer was thrown to the floor, our sump pump was activated and our sons were awakened. We went all through the house, worried that perhaps a tree fell in the yard or something, but there had been no sounds except our bed creaking and things falling off shelves."
One viewer even reported feeling the earthquake in the city of Chicago.
"I live in a three story house in Hyde Park and I could feel the attic moving back and forth!" wrote Twitter user Kiratiana.
WBBM-TV's Mary Kay Kleist also felt the earthquake while she prepared morning's the weather forecasts.
"Just a minute before 4 o'clock this morning, I was in the studio, and suddenly, I thought a truck was going to hit the building, just like we heard in the interview," Kleist said, "but the lights started moving in the studio, and you could tell something happened."
This was the second earthquake to strike in Illinois in the past two years. On April 18, 2008, a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck with an epicenter about 7 miles from downstate Mt. Carmel, about 230 miles south of Chicago.
That earthquake was felt around the state, including in Chicago. Downtown skyscrapers shook, but damage was mostly seen downstate.
The next most recent severe earthquake in the area hit in 1968. That earthquake had a magnitude of 5.3.
Those earthquakes were both centered on the New Madrid fault downstate. The area where the Wednesday morning earthquake struck is not nearly as active as the New Madrid fault, but it has seen other earthquake activity in recent years.
There was a 4.2-magnitude earthquake in the area in June 2004, and before that, a 3.0-magnitude earthquake in 1985, Baldwin said.
U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Amy Vaughn said the cause of the earthquake will be hard to determine, since there is no clearly delineated fault line in the area.
The fault where the earthquake occurred is "potentially connected" to the Wabash fault zone, a northern extension of the New Madrid fault.
But, Vaughn said, "This is not a region where we expect to have this."
In 1811 and 1812, the New Madrid fault produced a series of earthquakes estimated at magnitude 7.0 or greater.
The Wabash fault zone generated a magnitude 5.0 quake in 2002 and a 5.1 in 1987.
In 1990, scientist Iben Browning said the New Madrid fault line was due for a catastrophic earthquake, but that never happened.
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Source: [URL]http://wjz.com/national/illinois.earthquake.chicago.2.1483941.html[/URL]
The Obama Administration is obviously a [i]fault.[/i]
I'm a bit shaken from all these earthquakes happening.
I didn't feel it.
It was a 3.8. USGS said so.
[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2010snay.php[/url]
we're all fucking dead
oh wait no one felt it
I felt it in left 4 dead
It woke me up, it made an opened bottle of water fall on me :frown:
Too bad Chicago didn't get wiped off the map.
Also, I didn't feel it in Northwestern IL.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vn6kxfD3Ek[/media]
I always think of this when I hear of an earthquake.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;20150213]Too bad Chicago didn't get wiped off the map.
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You're getting Iran and Chicago mixed up.
It was the Tevetron! Fermilab is to blame, but the media wants to mask up the incident that unfolded in the collider.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;20150213]Too bad Chicago didn't get wiped off the map.
Also, I didn't feel it in Northwestern IL.[/QUOTE]
Chicago is a beautiful city. All major cities have shitty areas surrounding it.
Rare for the area, but not rare to see this many quakes happen.
There are over 152 quakes each year of a magnitude of 6.0 or stronger, not to mention the thousands and thousands of smaller quakes. It's just with the recent large loss of life in Haiti, every little quake that happens will be a big deal.
Sort of like when a child gets kidnapped, or goes missing, and it gets national attention. Then, for the few weeks thereafter, it seems like every missing child is on the news.
I remember when that earthquake rocked Seattle like 9 years back. That was some good fun. Only felt a bit of it up here.
Sorry Chicago, even this quake couldn't shake the Cubs in to shape.
[QUOTE=faze;20156778]Water! lol[/QUOTE]
no
I didn't feel it. I wish I did.
I live like 45 minutes away from the city in Lake Zurich. Didn't feel it or hear anything about it. Hmm.
Ha, I slept through this. People at my school were talking about this, and no one really felt it.
That was the first earthquake I've ever experienced and at 4 in the morning you don't think straight so I thought there was a poltergeist in my house. Then my mom thought there was a burglar and was carrying a bludgeon with her around the house.
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my mother is also bald because of her chemo so it was pretty funny.
Where was the epicenter?
Calm before the storm...
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These earthquakes gotta stop Haitian.
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