Indiana TV station broadcasts early morning earthquake

This YouTube video is an excerpt of WFIE’s early morn­ing news­cast. That’s chan­nel 14, the NBC affil­i­ate in Evans­ville, Indi­ana. Weath­er­man Byron Dou­glas stays on cam­era and reads from his script, even as the stu­dio is shak­ing from a 5.2 scale tremor. Great job!

I used to live in Evans­ville. when the two ISPs in town only offered dial-up ser­vice. I’m sur­prised WFIE has a live news­cast at 4:37 AM, as well as their own YouTube chan­nel.

Earth­quakes do hap­pen in that area, thanks to the New Madrid fault. Accord­ing to the US Geo­log­i­cal Survey’s web site, this may be the largest earth­quake ever recorded in the state. There was a 5.1 scale quake in 1909.

There’s also a Wikipedia arti­cle about today’s earthquake.

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