epicenter

4:37 AM, April 18th - Magnitude 5.2 earthquake in the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone. The epicenter was, in fact, underneath one of my family's farms. In fact, just the one I'd been at the day before. My brother and I took a tractor's GPS to the exact location.

It looked pretty amazing.

As I remarked to said brother, the quake didn't damage anything that didn't already need repaired. He laughed, so it must have been true. Just a few older churches cracked and one lost some chandeliers. NO INJURIES. The quake, however, was unusually long for the magnitude (~40 seconds here) and over four days there's been 23 aftershocks and related quakes.





Geologists did come but planted their instruments more convenient to the road and went home. We keep our natural disasters low-key here.