Quake 4 Kane

[Margaret Sieverding]

Twoturbulent nights in as many days brought significant wind damage and at least two tornadoes to parts of Kane County and surrounding areas. According to the National Weather Service, an EF-0 tornado was confirmed in Elburn Sunday night..

The Kane County Office of Emergency Management will be out assessing damage caused to the back to back storms. Emergency Management staff and volunteers along with crews from the Kane County Division of Transportation were out clearing roads and removing trees over the two day storm period.

Monday Morning Earthquake: Following the stormy evening, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a small earthquake. The USGS recorded a 3.4 magnitude earthquake near Somonauk, Illinois, in DeKalb County. The quake struck around 2:53 a.m. on Monday. While no damage was reported, vibrations were felt in some parts of Montgomery and Aurora.

Manchester City's Norwegian striker Erling Haaland, Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne and Tottenham's English star striker Harry Kane have generously joined forces in a signed jersey aid campaign for the victims of the devastating earthquakes in Trkiye, spearheaded by national football player Merih Demiral.

Merih Demiral, in his other social media post about the devastating earthquakes centered in Kahramanmaraş and affecting 10 provinces and Syria, underscored the heartfelt message of British star striker Harry Kane, who conveyed his deepest condolences and expressed regrets. To demonstrate his further support, Demiral announced that he would be auctioning the Harry Kane-signed jersey.

Merih had previously auctioned off the prized signed jerseys of international superstars Cristiano Ronaldo, Paulo Dybala and Leonardo Bonucci with the proceeds going to the Kahramanmaraş earthquake cause.

National basketball star Furkan Korkmaz, who plays for NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, has announced that exclusive jerseys signed by Joel Embiid and James Harden will also be auctioned off to support victims of the devastating earthquakes.

Data from the USGS shows that the quake was the strongest the state of Illinois has recorded since at least Sept. 2017, when a 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Bellmont. In fact, another earthquake occurred near the same area five years prior to that in 2012, officials said.

According to Aon, the deadly magnitude-7.4 earthquake that struck eastern Taiwan on April 3 is likely to result in a notable event for the local insurance industry due to relatively high take-up rates.

Most of the losses were incurred in Taipei, New Taipei, and Hualien counties, though many structures were saved from severe structural damages as more stringent building codes were introduced after a disastrous earthquake in 1999.

There was no damage in Pingree Grove, which is about 45 miles northwest of Chicago. Some residents said the rumble felt like an 18-wheeler rolling through their living room. Others assumed a train derailed.

Surveillance cameras captured a slight shutter just before 4 a.m. Wednesday. A 2-ton combine didn't move in a video, but the camera did. At Northern Illinois University, the tremor is blamed for a brief power outage that temporarily knocked computer servers offline.

"I got phone calls, email, Facebook blew up. Everyone thought snow plows ran into a neighbor's house or there was a natural gas explosion. There were a lot of theories going on," said Clint Carey, Pingree Grove mayor. "It's the biggest thing this week."

The earthquake registered 3.8 on the Richter Scale. Seismologists say it was felt across into Iowa, Wisconsin and Indiana because of the consistency of the earth's crust here in the Midwest. A similar quake in California wouldn't have reverberated as far.

"It's important for us in Illinois because we don't see them very often but someone in California it's not the big one by any stretch of the imagination," said David Voorhees, Waubonsee Community College.

"Kind of funny when you find out it was right here, right by us but at the same time with what's been going in with Haiti, it gives you pause to think about that and say, wow, it's nice to be able to just laugh about that," said Beth Gehrke.

While the earthquake jolted Illinois residents, few will ever have the excitement that Rod Allen, a science teacher at Da Vinci Academy in Elgin had Wednesday. The seismograph in his classroom is the closest to the epicenter."I even got an email from the US Geological Survey. I am closest instrument to the quake, don't have one within 100 meters," said Allen.

The epicenter of Wednesday's quake is close to a fault zone known as the Sandwich Fault Line. It's far less active and researched than the other line through southern Illinois. Still, there are a lot of century-old homes in the area, so residents were out checking foundations. It's also an area with a lot of natural gas storage facilities. Nicor hadn't reported any problems.

"I had just heard my husband leave for work and went back to bed trying to fall asleep for another 40 minutes," Bergman said. "All of a sudden, everything in the house started rattling. I could hear it in the kitchen."

"Within a minute my daughter called me and, 'Mom, did you feel the earth?' And I'm like, 'Yes!' Very scary, I was more rattled after talking to her. She was in bed sound asleep and keeps her clock radio on her headboard. She is a student up at DeKalb and said her chock radio started rattling, and her bed and everything," Bergman said.

"The only way i can describe it is if a train was running along high speed past our house, where everything was shaking," she said. "I have this big shell on my TV in my room that we got many years ago in the Bahamas, and that was rattling. Nothing has ever made that thing rattle like that."

But some people arriving at Union Station in Chicago Wednesday morning didn't even know the area had experienced an earthquake. One man said he was brushing his teeth when the mirror began to shake. He said he didn't know what was going onuntil he arrived at the train station.

"It was puzzling because I felt the bed shake," said Bernie Talbert. "I thought my wife was moving around, she thought I was moving around, we thought the cat was moving around. And then she said, 'What is that?' I said, 'I bet it's an earthquake.' 'You're nuts.' When I turned on the radio this morning, I heard about it."

"I was in the bed," said Ernestine McCollum. "I felt the shaking. I did not get up, and I heard the windows, you know, like shaking. I said to myself, 'Oh, it's an earthquake, it has to be.' When I turned on the TV, they confirmed it."

"Everything was trembling. My son called me this morning, early, around 6:30. He said his young children woke up, and the 5-year-old was frightened. The house was shaking. He lives in Geneva," said Giovanna Verdecchia.

There was no damage in Pingree Grove, which is about 45 miles northwest of Chicago. Some residents said the rumble felt like an 18-wheeler rolling through their living room. Others assumed a train derailed. \n

\n\nSurveillance cameras captured a slight shutter just before 4 a.m. Wednesday. A 2-ton combine didn't move in a video, but the camera did. At Northern Illinois University, the tremor is blamed for a brief power outage that temporarily knocked computer servers offline.

\n\n\"I got phone calls, email, Facebook blew up. Everyone thought snow plows ran into a neighbor's house or there was a natural gas explosion. There were a lot of theories going on,\" said Clint Carey, Pingree Grove mayor. \"It's the biggest thing this week.\"

\n\nThe earthquake registered 3.8 on the Richter Scale. Seismologists say it was felt across into Iowa, Wisconsin and Indiana because of the consistency of the earth's crust here in the Midwest. A similar quake in California wouldn't have reverberated as far.

\n\n\"It's important for us in Illinois because we don't see them very often but someone in California it's not the big one by any stretch of the imagination,\" said David Voorhees, Waubonsee Community College.

\"Kind of funny when you find out it was right here, right by us but at the same time with what's been going in with Haiti, it gives you pause to think about that and say, wow, it's nice to be able to just laugh about that,\" said Beth Gehrke.

While the earthquake jolted Illinois residents, few will ever have the excitement that Rod Allen, a science teacher at Da Vinci Academy in Elgin had Wednesday. The seismograph in his classroom is the closest to the epicenter.\n\n\"I even got an email from the US Geological Survey. I am closest instrument to the quake, don't have one within 100 meters,\" said Allen.

\"I had just heard my husband leave for work and went back to bed trying to fall asleep for another 40 minutes,\" Bergman said. \"All of a sudden, everything in the house started rattling. I could hear it in the kitchen.\"\n

\"Within a minute my daughter called me and, 'Mom, did you feel the earth?' And I'm like, 'Yes!' Very scary, I was more rattled after talking to her. She was in bed sound asleep and keeps her clock radio on her headboard. She is a student up at DeKalb and said her chock radio started rattling, and her bed and everything,\" Bergman said.\n

\"The only way i can describe it is if a train was running along high speed past our house, where everything was shaking,\" she said. \"I have this big shell on my TV in my room that we got many years ago in the Bahamas, and that was rattling. Nothing has ever made that thing rattle like that.\" \n

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