Earthquake!

[akodoreign]

Merged...

Did you feel that?

Lol, I knew I felt a disturbance in the force

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Somehow an earthquake in Illinois seems more relevant to me now then it would have six months ago

Just checked to see where West Salem is. 192 miles by road from Normal. Just read the paper online from Bloomington, and its big news. House shaking for 20 seconds sounds like a long time.

 

[akodoreign]

Somehow an earthquake in Illinois seems more relevant to me now then it would have six months ago

Just checked to see where West Salem is. 192 miles by road from Normal. Just read the paper online from Bloomington, and its big news. House shaking for 20 seconds sounds like a long time.

Yeah I was dreaming 2 of my friends were being goofs and rocking my car. I woke up and heard the rumble as the bed swayed back and forth.

It felt like it went on forever

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Another distubance in the force...

Merged the thread from the pub into this one....

 

[TuxCoder]

Early this morning I woke up for no reason, and just a minute or two later at 5:39am my closet doors started tapping each other and the bed shook a little. I figured it was an earthquake since it lasted so long (20-30 seconds). The tapping doors woke my fiancée woke up. I am 304 miles (489 kilometers) from the epicenter.

 

[IcEWoLF]

It's good to hear everyone is doing ok.

 

[nothing0]

im in Evansville, IN (about 40 miles away). it was shocking to wake up to the whole house shaking.

 

[TNGTony]

Just like the Maysville quake in the 80's.... slept right though this one.

 

[Poke]

Yeah on Fox site now and glad folks are ok..

FOXNews.com - 5.2-Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Midwest - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News

 

[akodoreign]

Yeah on Fox site now and glad folks are ok..

FOXNews.com - 5.2-Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Midwest - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News

Just had an aftershock

still shook the house a bit.

 

[SatinKzo]

Where are you at akodoreign?

 

[akodoreign]

Where are you at akodoreign?

Illinois , about 14 miles east of St. Louis.

Fairview heights is the city.

 

[DSpud]

aftershock, 10:15

 

[Buzzdar]

after shock here was 4.5

 

[jayelem]

Well that explains everything then.

I felt it but didn't figure it out , till a little while ago when I saw the news report.

At the time of the house shaking quake my thought was , how the hell is my brother doing that and why can't he just come up to my room if he needs something.

 

[Smith P.]

Umm, not that unusual here... We have to trained pass them.

 

[akodoreign]

Umm, not that unusual here... We have to trained pass them.

last one here of that magnitude was 1969 so yeah, kinda unsettling but cool

 

[Foxbat]

One of my coworkers noticed her monitor shaking and mentioned it, and when I checked the USGS site, I see there have been six M1+ aftershocks since the one at 4:37am CDT.

A good thing our Japanese partners required our minicomputers to be stapped in in case we experienced an earthquake...

I wonder what it felt like in the Sears Tower or John Hancock in Chicago?

See what you're getting yourself into, Rocky...

 

[goaliebob99]

Didnt feel a thing here....

 

[ssmaniac]

Woke up my whole family here in Cincinnati! Initially concerned it may have been a tornado, since windows rattling and whole house shaking (like freight train passing nearby)

1st one I felt here in Cincy since 1988 or so.