The
Wabash Valley Fault System in southeastern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and adjacent corner of Kentucky extends about 60 miles north-northeastward from just north of the
Shawneetown and Rough Creek Fault Zones. A
Magnitude 5.2 quake took place in the Wabash zone on April 18, 2008, at 09:37 UTC (04:37 CDT), about 41 miles NNW of
Evansville, Indiana, near the community of
Bellmont, Illinois. It was felt all across southern Illinois, southern Indiana, western and central Kentucky and eastern Missouri, waking people up in
Chicago and
St. Louis, 123 miles away. This was followed by several aftershocks and a second, magnitude 4.6 quake at 15:14 UTC (10:14 CDT). There were no injuries or serious damage reported late Friday morning, April 18, 2008. In
Mt. Carmel, Illinois, 15 southeast of the epicenter, a woman was reported trapped in her home by a collapsed porch but was quickly freed and wasn't hurt, said Mickie Smith, a police dispatcher there. The earthquake occurred on the 102nd anniversary of the
1906 San Francisco earthquake. The largest quake to have taken place in this Zone was a 5.4 earthquake in 1968. ==References==