....here in Dinkyville....
Small Quakes Keep Shaking Ohio
Tremor prompts 75 calls to police
August 16, 2006
By Jenni Laidman, Blade Science Writer
Toledo Blade - Toledo, OH
You might say the continent was just letting off a little pressure, and the folks living along the southern edge of Lima, Ohio, were shook up over it.
About 2:30 yesterday morning, a 2.5 magnitude earthquake gave the Allen County community a little jiggle with the sound of a loud boom, sending about 75 worried residents to the phone to ask police what had blown up.
But Michael Hansen, coordinator of the Ohio seismic network, who was called by Lima police just a few minutes later, says the source of the rumble was quite a bit father away - about the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. In a way, anyway.
It turns out that endlessly flat, glacier-groomed terrain of western Ohio covers a multitude of faults - breaks in the Earth's crust where some movement has occurred through the ages. These faults make this part of the state one of the two most seismically active. On May 11, a small quake occurred in almost this same location in Lima.
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