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Earthquake Felt in West TN

Posted by Eddie on April 18, 2008

Earthquake Details

Magnitude 5.4 (Preliminary magnitude — subject to revision)
Date-Time
  • Friday, April 18, 2008 at 09:36:57 UTC
  • Friday, April 18, 2008 at 04:36:57 AM at epicenter
Location 38.501°N, 87.898°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region ILLINOIS
Distances
  • 10 km (6 miles) ESE (103°) from West Salem, IL
  • 10 km (6 miles) NE (55°) from Bone Gap, IL
  • 13 km (8 miles) N (4°) from Bellmont, IL
  • 39 km (24 miles) WSW (239°) from Vincennes, IN
  • 66 km (41 miles) NNW (333°) from Evansville, IN
  • 204 km (127 miles) E (93°) from St. Louis, MO
Location Uncertainty Error estimate not available
Parameters NST=021, Nph=021, Dmin=263.2 km, Rmss=1.07 sec, Gp=119°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=1
Source
Event ID at00851141

13 Responses to “Earthquake Felt in West TN”

  1. Eddie said

    Although I slept through it my wife and a phone call I received reported that it lasted for about 15 seconds at 4:39 am.

  2. Kostello said

    I was awoken by it in St. Louis

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  4. Eddie said

    Here is a stats page from the USGS on the reports they have received: http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/STORE/X2008qza6/ciim_stats_1.html

  5. Eddie said

    Based on the USGS web site ( http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2008qza6.php#summary ) this ties the strongest they’ve ever recorded in S. IL: “The largest historical earthquake in the region (magnitude 5.4) damaged southern Illinois in 1968.”

  6. shannon smith said

    I LIVE IN HENRY COUNTY TENNESSEE, ABOUT 10 MILES FROM PARIS AND IT WOKE UP THE WHOLE HOUSE AND THE PICTURES, WINDOWS, AND FIREPLACE GLASS WAS JUST A SHACKING.

  7. Jill said

    It woke my husband, son, and me up in Clarksville, TN!!! My dresser drawer handles were kept rattling once we no longer could actually feel the quake. I shook the whole 1800 sq. foot house…amazing the power of that radiated all the way from Illinois. Makes me a little concerned about the New Madrid just west of here. I might just need to look into e.q. insurance…:>

  8. Lorrie Brown said

    I live in McKenzie, Tennessee and the earthquake woke me and my husband up around 4:40.

  9. Melinda Gordo said

    I had just gone back to bed at 4:40 AM–my bed “rocked” from side to side for about 10-15 seconds..starting as a slight tremor and then escalating during the 10-15 seconds to a “no-doubt about it” my bed is “rocking” motion. Quite weird.

  10. Michael said

    Woke me up this morning. Clarksville, TN. Thought It was the quarry or Ft. Campbell firing range. Shook the house.

  11. Cayce said

    OK, so glad I wasnt crazy. Im in Clarksville too…I felt it last night….it lasted for a good while…I thought it was just me being crazy waking up. Never felt a quake before, but I thought that is what it was.

  12. hostetler/pahl famiy said

    My family lives in western tennessee in ripley about 30 minutes from dyersburg. The quake woke me my mother and sister. I researched this morning and was surprised to find out that the quake started in illinois and reached all the way here. While it did no damage it certainly startled us all.

  13. Shay M said

    I’m 80 mi S of StL, I awoke to the noise of my metal coat hangers rattling, and my bed shaking somewhat, by the time I got the light on, it was a little stronger and candle sconces on the other side of the room were shaking on the wall. I work for a Sheriff Dept. and it cracked one of the copper water lines. No major damage was reported. I also felt the smaller quake this morning, it lasted approx 15 seconds or so, also no damage reported.

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