"I was in my office, doing some paperwork, next thing I know, I hear a big bang. Whole floor shook. I went outside to see if somebody hit my building," Mario Licitra, Licitra Roofing Company, said.

Company officials planned to resume operations on Monday, but icy conditions at the blast point forced them to delay explosions until Tuesday. The quarry voluntarily suspended operations back in ...

Last November, seven seconds after routine blasting, a 3.2 magnitude earthquake felt for miles shook loose ceiling tiles and startled neighbors. Four and a half months later, workers are back in the ...

The U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake experts, now agree that two things happened November 4th, a routine quarry blast that was not very noticeable, followed seconds later by an earthquake very ...

It was a quarry blast similar to this one-- a routine occurrence in this McCook quarry. The state says it was within regulatory limits, but the tremor that followed seven seconds later was eight times ...

For thousands of residents in and around southwest suburban McCook, it has been a rocky road for more than a decade in dealing with the fallout from quarry blasting. Although some quarry operations ...