Quake Chase 2013: LaGrange, Illinois??? Well They DID Have a 3.7 Yesterday!!!

Couldn't believe it when I heard there was a 3.7 Richters Earthquake in the nearby State of Illinois! Of course you didn't have to tell me twice by the names appearing on the front page of the notice that it was another in a recent series that has been striking just outside Chicago, so I knew right then and there that I would have to travel down to that neighborhood where I have been known to rollerblade in the past and even lived during the shooting of the movie HOFFA during the early 1990's.

Yes, I am talking about LaGrange, Illinois! The actual epicenter was listed as the next town to the east of there, McCook, Illinois. . . also a small town where old Route 66 once ran through and you could probably say still runs through today!

Here is the Welcome Sign from that wonderful little Shaky Place!!!

There I talked to one person right at the epicenter inside a Bank of America and she described it as a "Tremor" and said that they thought a semi had struck the building and when they all went running out of the building they immediately noticed that everybody else had gone running out of all the other buildings in the neighborhood, too! Including restaurants, pharmacies, book stores, gas stations, and etc. in this otherwise sleepy little suburb of Chicago.

Downgraded to a 3.4 by the end of the day yesterday, this was large enough to be felt all over Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin as well as a few felt reports from Indiana!

The epicenter was very near a Quarry where a lot of the blame for this shaker was going over the last two days due to them having blasted just moments before this earthquake, but it may possibly never be determined what the quarry blast might have had to do with it.

And that is exactly how this Quake Chase ended, too, by going over to the friendly neighborhood Shopping Plaza that goes by the name "The Quarry" for a slice of Pepperoni Pizza and a can of pop!!!

See you all on the next big Quake Chase!!!

Sincerely,
Quake Chaser

Quake Chase 2013 to Vanuatu? Looks Like The MegaThruster May Stike Out There Somewhere!!!

I have been doing some checking and found out that I can catch a flight directly from O'Hare Airport in Chicago to Brisbane, Australia with only one stop at DFW, Dallas-Fort Worth. Then I would have to catch a flight from Brisbane to Port Villa, Vanuatu but it looks like that might not allow me to stop over in Australia due to Visitor Visa rules there and I have not resolved the matter of changing planes at the Brisbane Airport without entering Australia per se. . . if there is such a thing. Same thing on the return trip.

Everything else would be pretty much a go to spend the month of August out there in the middle of those Pacific Islands, out there where some of this upcoming MegaThruster MIGHT be shaking in the coming days and weeks!

So, Quake Chaser will be working out the last minute connections on this now upcoming research trip including where I'm going to get the three thousand-five hundred dollars that I will need to purchase all of those tickets in addition to several nights stay out there on Vanuatu somewhere. I have not found if there is a ferry service that travels among the islands in order for me to catch Luganville, or possibly Fiji? And WHERE is the MegaThruster going to strike??? Thank-You For Reading!!! Quake Chaser / EQ Guy

Someday I MIght Like to Quake Chase a big Sumatra Style Mega-Thruster!!!!!

I know that could be today, but I don't really know if I want to get the feeling like I might be way too close to one of those big giant fault lines that has the capability of causing Gnormous Tsunami's!!!!! Otherwise now would be the time to be thinking about getting on a plane and starting to catch a flight over to Jakarta. . . which ironically I have actually even looked into before! Think I would have to change planes like in Japan or Korea or one of those places that probably has direct flights to Jakarta, while there possibly are no direct flights to Jakarta from Chicago O'Hare.

So, watch for that next big MegaThruster to strike over in that region and think of me still sitting here safe. . . in the basement of Moms house up here in mosquito infested Wisconsin!!!!! Quake Chaser

LOTS of Potential Earthquake Stuff Going On In California!!!!!

Currently working on possibly catching one of the upcoming Major California Earthquakes that seem to be headed both for the Mexicali/Calexico Region near Los Angeles AND for the Northern California Region where Mammoth Lakes just got five pages of earthquakes as of late last night which all add up to around 150 Richters!!!

Kind of tough to figure out where a guy would travel to in order to catch all the action but you know Quake Chaser is on it!!!!! O'Hare Airport here I come!!!!! See You Out There. . . . . just have no idea where I might end up!!!

EQ Guy/Quake Chaser

Quake Chase This Weekend!!! Montego Bay, Jamaica? L.A.?

Called the airlines immediately as soon as the Jamaica Region started experiencing more than the garden variety of earthquakes. That was when it occurred to me that a trip down to that islands region might just be in order due to Haiti, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico might all be places where the next Major Earthquake could strike.

I had to think it all through and had no problem finding direct flights out of Chicago to Montego Bay. Did not get to the hotels there before the thought occurred to me that it MIGHT just be like Quake Chase 2011. . . and actually be TOO BIG of an Earthquake to want to be that near the epicenter. Of course there is always that little problem of not wanting to bring along my PFD (Personal Flotation Device) as carry-on. We will just have to wait a couple more days till early this week to see if a tsunami will be generated by the earthquake that might strike there.

Finally as the end of the week set in and I was all prepared knowing something WAS going to shake, it next occurred to me that I might just jump in my car and drive out to California for a quick Quake Chase. Perhaps out along Highway 1, in the Paso Robles neighborhood and a quick drive through beautiful downtown Northridge, California. Where the plan is right at the moment is that the last several times I drove back and forth to California I was paying somewhere between $50 and $80 for gas. Just in the back of my mind never having stopped to figure out the difference. . . i think it would be a lot higher today. All in all the problem with both Quake Chases is that the Earthquake Energy due to strike is not of the straight line variety such as was the event of October 2011 at Coos Bay, Oregon. Making this weekends potential Major Earthquake slightly less certain and just a little bit on the difficult side to just jump in the car and drive out there to. A sponser who would help out with a trip to Montego Bay, Jamaica????? Probably not anytime in the near future. So, I will be home with the phone screaming about every hour now (With latest earthquakes, you know) and just wait to watch the Next Major Earthquake on TV like everybody else will be doing at any moment, now!!! Thank-You for reading! Quake Chaser