* I was up at 4 o’clock and felt a little something, but figured it was lack of sleep. Nope…
The 4.3 magnitude quake, centered 48 miles west of Chicago near the city of Sycamore, hit at 4 a.m. local time at a depth of about 3 miles.
“The whole house shook,” Walter Mockus of St. Charles told the Chicago Tribune. “The chimes that hang were all ringing. It was so loud, I thought a plane had gone down.”
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“I heard the plates I didn’t wash from dinner rattle,” said Alice Fabbre of Joliet. “The house shook, but it was very short. At first, I thought it was a snow plow going by.”
“It shook me out bed. I was sleeping and the whole bed was shaking, it was that violent,” said Rex Covington, who lives in Plato Center Township, about five miles west of Elgin. He estimated the tremor lasted 5 or 6 seconds.
“When I called 911, she said they felt the shock too and said their whole building in Geneva shook.”
* Click here for the USGS page. And here are Tweets about the quake.
There’s gotta be a good political analogy here, but I’m too tired. Have at it.