Lake Mendota Ice Quake

[hawing]

Link from UW-Madison News

 

If you were near the Lake Mendota shore on the UW-Madison campus a little before 1:00 Thursday, you might have felt a tremor caused by shifting ice.

Somehow, I didn't, despite being in the center of the Union Rathskeller eating lunch. At my workplace, across the street, some staff felt it and some didn't.

A colleague in the center of our big reading room said it felt like being on a trampoline for a moment.

 

This month has really been full of odd natural events.

[stoops17]

wow that's cool, I'll have to ask my brother if he felt it

[sbrylski]

Ha, I napped through it, I guess. I can throw a rock out my window and hit Lake Mendota too...

[temke]

i had heard some pretty solid cracks in my 3 years living on the lake...but nothing i could ever feel.

 

a frozen lake mendota is all kinds of entertainment.

[Hammer]

Was it caused by Erin Andrews? She brings the temps up a bit...

 

Sorry, this was near the Badgers thread...

[SeriesFinale]

UW-Madison geology Prof. Cliff Thurber estimates today's brief tremor at less than 0.2 on the Richter scale -- enough to be noticed, but well short of calamity.

0.2?!? I think your friend might've been exaggerating just a bit about feeling like they were on a trampoline!

[RU Rah Rah]

I work in Ingraham Hall, and we were having a staff meeting. When the "quake" hit, we thought that a bus had run into the building. (They sort of zoom by on Observatory Drive.) There is a kind of glass display case in the room where we were meeting, and its windows really shook.

[ttsather]

I was in the Law Building and we felt a slight shake - prof didn't even notice, I don't think.

 

I went to Memorial Union afterward and people in the Hoofer office (where I work - in the basement) were trying to figure out what happened, because they apparently really shook. Same story from the Red Gym.

[sbrylski]

By the way, this would be a great name for a sports team in the Madison Area...

[TooLiveBrew]

Are you trying to suggest that a mallard duck isn't intimidating?!

[sbrylski]

Are you trying to suggest that a mallard duck isn't intimidating?!

I suppose you'd be the one to get defensive. You went from one Duck country to the other!

[TooLiveBrew]

Dang. Burn.

 

And for your information, the Oregon Duck is a donald duck, not a mallard! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif