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Apparently there was an earthquake this morning that was felt in the Greater Cincinnati area. The crazy thing is that it was 180 miles away in Illinois. Unfortunately I was already in the car on my way to a leadership meeting for church and I didn’t notice. That is until I turned on the radio to make sure there weren’t any traffic issues (I75 south was taken down to 1 lane from where I get on through the next two exits) and both stations I checked were talking about the earthquake and calls telling about it.
An earthquake registering a 5.4-magnitude 180 miles away in southeast Illinois shook the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky region at 5:37 a.m. No damages or injuries have been reported.
Tremors rocked residents from Wilmington to West Chester Township to Delhi Township in Hamilton County to Bellevue in Northern Kentucky for about 10 seconds, county dispatchers reported.
The quake was centered six miles from West Salem, Ill., and 66 miles from Evansville, Ind. It was felt in such distant cities as Chicago, Milwaukee, and Des Moines, Iowa, 450 miles northwest of the epicenter, but there were no early reports of injuries or significant damage.
The quake occurred in the Illinois basin-Ozark dome region that covers parts of Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas and stretches from Indianapolis and St. Louis to Memphis, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Earthquake tremors reported