We always have stuff, and we have a generator.īOTTAR: She's just hoping she doesn't have to use it anytime soon, even though she lives in a seismically active region.įor NPR News, I'm Abigail Bottar in Lake County, Ohio.Ĭopyright © 2023 NPR. She says nothing was damaged in her home, and she feels prepared for any future Ohio earthquakes that may come. JOE BUSHER: That's because of strong building codes and the enforcement of those codes throughout the county that our structures all held up well during that event.īOTTAR: Vickie Wyatt agrees. Joe Busher, the head of the Lake County Emergency Management Agency, says that was the case for this latest quake in northeast Ohio. So it's not surprising to see a variation in the number of earthquakes with time.īOTTAR: In Ohio, that's meant a lot of low-level tremors, which typically cause little, if any, damage. ![]() Seismologist Earle says it's common for one earthquake to trigger others.ĮARLE: It's more like popcorn going off, where you have a kernel - kernel explodes, and then a bunch of kernels explode, and then it stops for - calms down for a while and so forth and so on. You could hear it and kind of feel it before it hit.īOTTAR: Two aftershocks were recorded after the quake. She says the sound of the earthquake gave her a clue that this was bigger than normal. Vickie Wyatt lives in Geneva, Ohio, an area also affected. Last month, there were 11 quakes in Ohio, five of them in this Lake County region, and the one in late August, although minor by earthquake standards, was the largest by far. It does not take a huge fault to generate an earthquake of this size.īOTTAR: What northeast Ohio has is a grouping of faults, faults that are miles below Lake Erie and underground in the bedrock. PAUL EARLE: I mean, you can have an earthquake this large pretty much anywhere.īOTTAR: Paul Earle is a seismologist with the United States Geological Survey.ĮARLE: I mean, this is not a huge earthquake. But it was noticeable, clocking in with a magnitude of 3.6. She realized quickly that what she felt was an earthquake - not one that threw her house out of disarray or caused harm. And then I said, no, my dryer's not that loud in my living room.īOTTAR: Bushman lives in Madison, Ohio, along the shores of Lake Erie, northeast of Cleveland. And I heard this rumbling sound that at first I thought was my dryer. MARGARET BUSHMAN: The couch shook, and the whole, kind of, house was shaking. ![]() on August 27, and Margaret Bushman was finishing a good book when something odd happened. As Ideastream Public Media's Abigail Bottar reports, it was one of several earthquakes to hit Ohio so far this year.ĪBIGAIL BOTTAR, BYLINE: It was late Sunday night - about 11 p.m. But the state's northeastern region recently felt a lot of shaking for a few minutes. There are often reports of earthquakes on the West Coast.
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