The earth rolls today

New Madrid Fault
awakens!

I'm getting ready to fly down to Orlando for a global youth summit. So I'm checking my email and the apartment begins to shake. No big deal, I think, I live along a truck route. Then WBEZ, our local NPR affiliate, announced that the authorities here The Windy City and as far south as Springfield got hundreds of calls reporting an earthquake.

And now the USGS reports it had a magnitude of 5.4! Oddly enough, it's the 102nd Anniversary of the devastating San Francisco Earthquake...