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Ice quake!

By Ann Althouse

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Does anybody know about the quake? We do!

Thursday afternoon the staff from the University of Wisconsin-Madison near Lake Mendota felt a shake and heard a noise like a boom which was triggered by an ice quake.
According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison geologists, even though they didn?t feel the quake on West Dayton Street the tremor was recorded around 12:50 p.m. and lasted two or three seconds. At the time quake the temperature in Madison was of 16 degrees.
Patrick Brenzel, from the department of sociology situated at the eighth-floor, 1180 Observatory Drive, said: ?It actually sounded like a bus drove into the building. The whole building shook.?
The ice quakes are triggered by large shifts in lake ice when temperature changes dramatically thus making a loud noise when it cracks, according to Cliff Thurber, a professor of geophysics....
Several people called police when they?ve heard the noise....
[P]eople coming out of the offices were looking at each other almost like saying ?Do you think it was a bomb??

ADDED: "The Pond in Winter."

Full post as published by Althouse on February 01, 2008 (boomark / email).