Significance Of Earthquakes In Illinois

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The state of Illinois isn’t necessarily concerned about the significance of earthquakes, but we are prepared. Illinois has safety plans for when an earthquake occurs, but considering the “highest magnitude an earthquake has reached in Illinois is 5.2 in 1987” (Stover and Coffman, 2014). “A Richter scale (rĬk´tər), measures the magnitude of seismic waves from an earthquake with 10 being the highest most damageful magnitude” (The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013). We are not too worried about it reaching a higher magnitude to where the damage is outrageous.
One of the largest earthquakes that happened in Southern Illinois was on May 26, 1909. This earthquake stretched over 500,000 miles meaning the people of Wisconsin and Iowa also felt the rumble. Chicago buildings were becoming unstable which gave citizens the thought the walls were going to collapse (N.A, 2007). Panic arose among the civilians, but no severe injuries were reported that were results from the earthquake. As you can tell, earthquakes aren’t a main problem in Illinois. Anything can happen though, so it is not l...

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