-- A brief earthquake struck the Midwest early Monday, rattling windows and awakening sleeping residents from Wisconsin south to Missouri and from Indiana west to Iowa.
No injuries were reported from the quake, which occurred about 1:11 a.m. CDT.
Brian Lassige, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado, said the quake was magnitude 4.5, and its epicenter was about eight miles northwest of Ottawa in northern Illinois.
Initial reports indicated no major damage from the temblor, although police agencies and radio stations within the quake area were inundated with telephone calls.
Reports of the shaking came from at least as far east as Valparaiso, Ind., and as far west as the Quad Cities, and from Wisconsin in the north to the St. Louis area in the south.
i thought wtf that was....the power went over here for awhile too
No injuries were reported from the quake, which occurred about 1:11 a.m. CDT.
Brian Lassige, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado, said the quake was magnitude 4.5, and its epicenter was about eight miles northwest of Ottawa in northern Illinois.
Initial reports indicated no major damage from the temblor, although police agencies and radio stations within the quake area were inundated with telephone calls.
Reports of the shaking came from at least as far east as Valparaiso, Ind., and as far west as the Quad Cities, and from Wisconsin in the north to the St. Louis area in the south.
i thought wtf that was....the power went over here for awhile too
