Latest News Update About Indiana Earthquake: Indiana earthquake earthquake about five miles north underground hit central Indiana shortly before dawn today.
U. S. Geological Survey reported 3.8 earthquake center 5 miles southeast of the Green City, Into 7:55:21 today. The agency had initially reported as a 4.2 earthquake. About 3 miles beneath the earth was done, the Geological Survey reported.
The epicenter was “very irregular, very rare, unprecedented,” John Steinmetz, director of the Indiana Geological Survey at Indiana University, told the Star Press of Muncie.
Indiana Geological Survey had no record of an earthquake of this size in Central Indiana in general. Steinmetz said he needs more time to research, when – if ever – is a center for central Indiana and a number of smaller earthquakes.
By comparison, reportedly 7.0 earthquake was registered in Haiti in January 2010, 100 times the energy than an earthquake in Indiana this morning, officials from the U.S. Geological Society said.
It is not the first earthquake in the Midwest last year. A similar-3.8 earthquake rocked a suburb seven seconds just before dawn on February 10
Epicenter of the quake was about three miles below the farm area just south of Pingree Grove, near Switzerland Road and Route 20 in western Kane County.
The earthquake was caused by a previously unknown fault line, there is no shock generated by geologists monitoring began 150 years ago.
The police contacted the department in Cook, Lake, Kane and Dupage County, said it received no calls of concern this morning.
In Indiana, said Howard County Executive Deputy Sheriff Steve Rogers that the department has been bombarded with phone calls after the earthquake of people who knew what was happening. He said some people heard a big boom.
Indiana University geologist Michael Hamburger told Indianapolis television station WTHR quake was felt in central Indiana and western Ohio. He said the temblors in the area, “Seismic is very quiet.”
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