Massive 4.0 earthquake centered in Lake County

[Polishprince]

It was felt throughout western PA as well as eastern Ohio, but I slept right through the catastrophe.

Haiti's earthquake was significantly higher at a 7.0, but this was still 58% as severe as the Haiti event.

WATCH: Video shows earthquake in NE Ohio

That shaking you may have felt Sunday night really was an earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed.

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[Harry Dresden]

"massive" 4.0?.......massive is 7 or better.....

 

[Oddball]

Been in a 4.0....Unsettling as it was, there was nothing "massive" about it.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Been in a 4.0....Unsettling as it was, there was nothing "massive" about it.

try a 7.3.....they get the adrenaline flowing....

 

[1srelluc]

 

[JohnDB]

Earthquake severity depends upon direction of movement and the type of oluvial soil in the immediate area surrounding the Earthquake.

A severe Earthquake in the Los Angeles area is only a 4....but in San Francisco it requires something much stronger as they have 3's on a regular basis.

 

[ReinyDays]

The eastern part of the United States is on firm bedrock ... so even a 4.0 magnitude earthquake will shake things far and wide ... the West Coast tends to be heavily faulted and that restricts the shaking to the local area, though 7.0 or higher is going to shake things up further and wider ...

I'm from Western Oregon, so I can talk about 9.5 magnitude ... enough to ruin your day ...

 

[Votto]

It was felt throughout western PA as well as eastern Ohio, but I slept right through the catastrophe.

Haiti's earthquake was significantly higher at a 7.0, but this was still 58% as severe as the Haiti event.

WATCH: Video shows earthquake in NE Ohio

That shaking you may have felt Sunday night really was an earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed.

fox8.com

No, no, ,no, Michael Moore just slipped on a bar of soup in the shower is all.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Earthquake severity depends upon direction of movement and the type of oluvial soil in the immediate area surrounding the Earthquake.

A severe Earthquake in the Los Angeles area is only a 4....but in San Francisco it requires something much stronger as they have 3's on a regular basis.

A 4.0 earthquake in Los Angeles gets an honorable mention on the nightly news.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I have been right on top of a 4. It was no biggie. I was a hundred miles from a 6.9 and watched as a section of bridge collapsed on somebody I knew. Big biggie.

A 5 point is actually 10 times as powerful as a 4. A 7 point is actually a thousand times as powerful.

 

[luiza]

, but I slept right through the catastrophe.

Brave to admit to being insensitive and so heavy a snorer that you are effectively deaf .Unless you are an alcoholic , but we will not dwell on that .

 

[buckeye]

It was felt throughout western PA as well as eastern Ohio, but I slept right through the catastrophe.

Haiti's earthquake was significantly higher at a 7.0, but this was still 58% as severe as the Haiti event.

WATCH: Video shows earthquake in NE Ohio

That shaking you may have felt Sunday night really was an earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed.

fox8.com

I'm in that area and we never felt it. There was one in the 80's (5.0) that we definitely felt.

The northeastern Ohio earthquake of 31 January 1986: was it induced? ( USA). | U.S. Geological Survey

On 31 January 1986, at 11:46 EST, an earthquake of mb = 5.0 occurred about 40 km E of Cleveland, Ohio, and about 17 km S of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant. The earthquake was felt over a broad area, including 11 states, the District of Columbia, and parts of Ontario, Canada, caused intensity...

www.usgs.gov