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5.4 Earthquake Rocks Illinois
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 18, 2008 09:29am |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Friday, April 18, 2008 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 18, 2008
Filed at 10:06 a.m. ET
WEST SALEM, Ill. (AP) -- Residents across the Midwest were awakened Friday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage.
The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered six miles from West Salem, Ill., and 66 miles from Evansville, Ind. It was felt in such distant cities as Milwaukee, Des Moines, Iowa, and Atlanta, nearly 400 miles to the southeast.
''It shook our house where it woke me up,'' said David Behm of Philo, 10 miles south of Champaign. ''Windows were rattling, and you could hear it. The house was shaking inches. For people in central Illinois, this is a big deal. It's not like California.''
In Mount Carmel, 15 southeast of the epicenter, a woman was trapped in her home by a collapsed porch but was quickly freed and wasn't hurt, said Mickie Smith, a dispatcher at the police department. The department took numerous other calls, though none reported anything more serious than objects knocked off walls and out of shelves, she said. |
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