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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>"Did you feel the November 9, 1968, M5.4 southern Illinois earthquake? Do you remember where you were and what happened? Please tell us and share this request with others. <BR>
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In commemoration of the upcoming 45th anniversary of this important earthquake, which was felt from Cleveland to Kansas City and Minneapolis to Atlanta, the USGS established a "Did You Feel It" site for people to record their shaking experience during this quake. <BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/19681109/us/index.html">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/19681109/us/index.html</a></U></FONT> <BR>
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The quake occurred at about 11 am local time. Even more than 40 years after this earthquake, geologists can learn from it. The earthquake was widely felt, and if you were living in the region at the time, it is scientifically important to note that you did or did not feel it. Your shaking experience will be converted to an Intensity map and scientists will use this information to strengthen a study of damage and intensity that was completed soon after the earthquake by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and St. Louis University. <BR>
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The website will ask for your zip code of where you were that day and the address, if possible, on that day (not now). This is needed only to help identify the differences in earthquake shaking from location to location. As you work your way through the website’s queries, it will ‘automatically’ measure scientific information about what you experienced. This information is very important to today’s earthquake scientists. <BR>
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Thank you for your help in this endeavor.<BR>
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Robert A. Williams<BR>
U.S. Geological Survey<BR>
Central & Eastern U.S. Earthquake Program Coordinator<BR>
Geologic Hazards Science Center<BR>
1711 Illinois St<BR>
Golden, CO 80401<BR>
303-273-8636</SPAN></FONT>
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