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Justine Bursoni hails from Chicago. She tried as hard as possible to leave here, graduating after three years of Art History school. It was Custard Cup (and owning her own home) that forced her to stay. She now lives in downtown Champaign, is working on her master's in art education and works at the Orpheum Children's Science Museum.
At 4:35 a.m., an earthquake rumbled through Champaign-Urbana. WCIA Newsroom corroborated that over fifteen people in their viewing area had already called in to claim the movement. After a few minutes, the U.S. Geological Survey posted the information to their website, listing the earthquake's magnitude as a 5.2 and it's center was near West Salem, Ill.
It is assumed that the tremor was caused by the New Madrid Seismic Zone that runs between St. Louis, Mo., and Memphis, Tenn. In 1811, the fault moved for almost three months during the wintertime. The quake was felt as far away as North Carolina.
UPDATE: Aftershocks were felt in Urbana, Ill., at 10:15 a.m. A seismographic reading could not yet be identified. The U.S. Geological Survey has identified this one as a 2.5 on the Richter Scale.
Comments (6)
Friday, April 18, 2008 5:08 AM
One of those nights I'm glad that I don't go to bed until 5am. It was like living in CA again! It was funny talking to Seth, Justine, and a few other people who were still up/woken up by it.
Pretty far south, too:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.501+-87.898(M5.4+-+ILLINOIS+-+2008+April+18++09%3A36%3A57+UTC)&ll=38.501,-87.898&spn=2,2&f=d&t=h&hl=e
Friday, April 18, 2008 5:47 AM
This is a pretty cool site:
http://hsv.com/genlintr/newmadrd/
The eyewitness accounts are crazy!
Friday, April 18, 2008 8:51 AM
You got this story before the News-Gazette! hahahahaha those slugs!
Friday, April 18, 2008 9:59 AM
Come on do what you did
roll me under New Madrid
shake my baby and please bring her back Death won't even be still
caroms over the landfill
and carries us all in its broken back.
Friday, April 18, 2008 10:02 AM
I am disappointed that I missed this...
Friday, April 18, 2008 10:49 AM
i felt the aftershock this morning! how strange.