Minor quake shakes Ohio's northeast area
Michael C. Hansen, coordinator of the Ohio Seismic Network in the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, said the quake at 10:03 p.m. was centered in the Ashtabula County area between Cleveland and Erie, Pa. The National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said the quake was centered in Lake Erie, about 10 miles northwest of the lakefront city of Ashtabula. The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.2, Hansen said from Columbus. The sheriff's office in Ashtabula County was swamped with calls from people reporting the ground shaking, including some reports of slight structural damage, such as cracked plaster. Angela Weir, handling calls for a private security company in Ashtabula, said the quake set off dozens of motion detectors in the region. "It was just a loud boom," she said. "It felt like a shake, a tremor." In North Kingsville, between Lake Erie and Interstate 90 near the Pennsylvania state line, Dave Shank, 51, was settled in a chair when he heard a boom. "I thought something blew," he said. "I thought there was an explosion. I was sitting in the living room in the chair and heard a shock. About four or five seconds later, it was over." Ohio has had 120 earthquakes in the past 200 years, most of them minor. A mild quake also centered east of Cleveland occurred Sept. 22, 1999, but no injuries or damage were reported. On the Net: National Earthquake Information Center: http://neic.usgs.gov
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