....what happened to the earthquake we felt back in February? Remember that one? It registered about a 3.8 magnitude and occurred a little before 4am. That morning we spoke with Dr. Philip Carpenter from NIU to help us better understand what was going on. A few days ago I talked with him to see if there was any further development and to my surprise there really wasn't. He said that, so far, they have seen no additional earthquakes near the epicenter...which the USGS moved back to Lily Lake/Virgil once they obtained more information. A portable seismic recording station was set up near the area to monitor microearthquake activity, but so far they have not seen anything that looked like microearthquakes. He did submit a proposal to the National Science Foundation EarthScope office to examine epicentral areas of the Lily Lake quake and other northern Illinois earthquakes. The goal: map buried faults that be the focus of future activity.
A big Thank-You to Dr. Philip Carpenter for his help!!
Thanks for the follow up! I shamefully forgot about that quake until your post. I really like getting updates like this. Good luck to Dr. Carpenter in his search for grant funding. Keep us posted!
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