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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

Is there already a thread about this? I didn't see one, but I expected there to be.

In any case, a relatively small (5.2, it looks like) earthquake shook the midwest early this morning.

Here is the US Geological Survey's report on it.

Anybody feel it?

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

I didn't. [Wink]

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

[Laugh]

Corwin

Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :

I woke up, but I didn't know why until this morning.

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

A friend of a friend of mine once thought he was too drunk, that's why everything in the room was moving. He tried to go back to sleep. He only realized what happened next morning when my friend called and asked "are you alright? you didn't get hurt in the earthquake?"

Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :

I slept through it, apparently. Which is sort of a shame, since I'm apparently less than a hundred miles from the epicenter.

Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :

My sister lives in Evansville, IN, which is about 60 miles from the epicenter. She said it lasted about 30 seconds or so. She is fine.

msquared

Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :

Oh, there we go, a mild aftershock.

Posted by Christine (Member # 8594) on :

I was sound asleep and didn't feel a thing, but my poor husband had to work straight through the night on some emergency and he felt it. We're not all that close, though -- Kansas City area. I was surprised he felt it but apparently his building will collapse if there's ever a real earthquake.

Posted by katdog42 (Member # 4773) on :

I was just waking up when it started. I woke up very quickly after that!

Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :

No feeling in Detroit... but I was totally sleeping till just a minute ago.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

Christine, I didn't know you lived around there. I grew up near Lawrence.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ricree101:
Oh, there we go, a mild aftershock.

I was just wondering why I hadn't gotten a notification of it (I registered to get emailed earthquake reports from the US geological survey a few years ago) when the report popped up in my inbox. Looks like it was a 4.5.

Posted by katdog42 (Member # 4773) on :

I had students in my room at the time of that aftershock. I thought I felt something, but none of them did. I'm glad to know that I'm not just paranoid.

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

I heard something and thought it was hail... but no hail last night... I think 30 seconds would have been the right duration.

AJ

Posted by Catseye1979 (Member # 5560) on :

I remember the last time I was in a 5.0 earthquake. I was in the kitchen getting a drink of water and my mother was in a chair watching TV. My mother asked me if I felt the ground shaking. I stopped, and sure enough felt the ground moving. I said to my mother, "Yep" drank the water and went back to my room and my video games. Later found out the center of that one was about 8 miles away.

After going through the '89 quake in San Francisco, anything under 6.0 isn't hardly worth noticing.

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

Wow, that's very interesting.

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

At about 4:15am my beagle started barking. It woke me up. I went to the basement to quiet her down, and our Chow/shepherd mix went with me. He ran down into the basement, and the beagle quieted up.

I was grumpy and upset that I had to be up in an hour, so had to suffer through another lousy night's sleep.

A few minutes later I thought I heard the dogs coming upstairs, but they started barking in the basement. I thought it might be my son on his way to the potty, walking down the hall.

Then our bed started shaking a bit. It was fun.

The dogs never did stop barking. I think they just wanted to go out for a walk.

Only damage we found were some baseball pennants we had barely hanging on the wall were on the floor.

Oh, and my wife had some--romantically interesting dreams--shall we say. I don't know if they were caused by the earthquake, but I am certainly going to tease her about it for a long time to come.

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

I live about twelve miles outside of Chicago. I was up a a little after 4 am. Never felt a thing.

Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :

I'm in Chicago, and I didn't feel a thing. I felt one once in Israel and once in the Santa Cruz area, but nothing here.

The one in Santa Cruz was kind of funny. There was this rumble, and I thought a truck was passing by outside. But it kept going, and after a little bit, I looked at Havah and said, "I think this is an earthquake".

Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :

I woke up right around that time. Then I couldn't get back to sleep because every few minutes for about an hour and a half, small amounts of dust would fall down inside the chimney, slightly freaking me out. I finally did get back to sleep, had to get up to take the kids to school and went back to sleep when I got home, thus sleeping through the aftershock.

I'm in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and am not sure whether the earthquake woke me up the first time or whether the stuff falling in the chimney was related at all ... but it's possible. [Dont Know]

Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :

I woke up around that time too, but I think it was a coincidence, as Telp said, I've yet to hear anyone in Detroit report anything, but I have heard on the news some people in southwest Michigan reported light tremors, but given how far down into Illinois it is, I doubt that.

Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :

I was in a decent sized earthquake once while I was in high school band practice. I thought one of the trumpets behind me was kicking my chair. Then I realized that everything was sort of rippling.

When it stopped, everyone was absolutely still. No one said anything.

Then the guy sitting next to me sprints across the room and dives under a table. He's crouching there, everyone in the class staring blankly at him while he stares back with a huge s**t-eating grin.

Brilliant. I wish my comedic timing was that good.

Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :

I live in California. I'm pretty sure that means that I win until Rivka posts.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

My teacher's apartment collapsed with her and her 4-year-old son in it in the Northridge earthquake when I was in 5th grade... She was out for a week and then her son came to class for 2 weeks while she found a new preschool for him because the building his had been in was condemned...