[irised] Illinois earthquake

[Lavender, Rebecca (Faculty - lavenderrn)]

I have a question: why is the media reporting the quake's epicenter in Illinois, while IRIS ha it Indiana?  I know they're border states and all, but why the confusion?  Or am I the only one confused?!

Rebecca Lavender
Girls' Cross Country/Track Coach
David Lipscomb High School
3901 Granny White Pike
Nashville, TN 37204
(615)966-6463



-----Original Message-----
From: irised-bounces at iris.washington.edu on behalf of cdewolf at chsd.us
Sent: Sat 4/19/2008 1:04 PM
To: Jay Sinclair
Cc: irised at iris.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [irised] Illinois earthquake
 
Really? I just looked at recent earthquakes at the USGS site and it is there. 

As it was felt by people in the Grand Rapids area - and some in our county, I sent an image of our station's seismogram to Channel 13 in Grand Rapids. They used it in their web-based story on the quake and came up to do some filming as I did a lesson relating to the quake with one of my classes.

It was great to see the amount of coverage the science behind earthquakes got. They aired versions of the story using this footage at 6, 11 yesterday and 7:30 this morning.

It was ironic that our "local" station out of Cadillac did not even respond to my e-mail.

Now if I can just get my school to let me past the firewall again and get my station back on the IRIS site......


Cris L. DeWolf
Editor, The Michigan Earth Scientist
Michigan Earth Science Teachers Association
THEMIS-GEONS Ambassador
NAGT Central Region State Contact

> We picked this quake up strongly on our AS-1, but now it has been
> deleted by the USGS. Why would this be?
> 
> Jay
> 
> Jay Sinclair
> OESTA Chair
> Past President
> Michigan Earth Science Teachers Association
> sinclair at ida.k12.mi.us
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