Reply With QuoteA little bit since i live in the Chicago area but i thought it was a train going by since there train tracks in the back of me and found out it was eathquake once i turned the news on at 5am. this morning when i got up.
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Did anyone hear about the earthquake in south Illinois? Before it happened I had woke up from an odd dream. Just as I drifted off back asleep I felt my bed shaking. I thought that someone was shaking my bed and I looked over and seen no one there. I thought that I was going crazy. A half hour later it was time for me to take my mom to work and while she was getting ready I told her that I felt my bed shake. She then told me that she had felt her bed shake too. Neither one of us thought it was an earthquake because it's so rare around here. Did anyone else on this board feel it?
A little bit since i live in the Chicago area but i thought it was a train going by since there train tracks in the back of me and found out it was eathquake once i turned the news on at 5am. this morning when i got up.
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Dennis
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WEST SALEM, Ill. - Residents across the Midwest were awakened Friday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage.
The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered six miles from West Salem, Ill., and 66 miles from Evansville, Ind.
"It shook our house where it woke me up," said David Behm of Philo, 10 miles south of Champaign. "Windows were rattling, and you could hear it. The house was shaking inches. For people in central Illinois, this is a big deal. It's not like California."
Bonnie Lucas, a morning co-host at WHO-AM in Des Moines, said she was sitting in her office when she felt her chair move. She grabbed her desk, and then heard the ceiling panels start to creak. The shaking lasted about 5 seconds, she said.
The quake is believed to have involved the Wabash fault, a northern extension of the New Madrid fault about 6 miles north of Mt. Carmel, Ill., said United States Geological Survey geophysicist Randy Baldwin.
The last earthquake in the region to approach the severity of Friday's temblor was a 5.0 magnitude quake that shook a nearby area in 2002, Baldwin said.
"This is a fairly large quake for this region," he said. "They might occur every few years."
Baldwin said the USGS revised the quake's magnitude from 5.4 to 5.2.
Irvetta McMurtry of Cincinnati said she felt the rattling for up to 20 seconds.
"All of a sudden, I was awakened by this rumbling shaking," said McMurtry, 43. "My bed is an older wood frame bed, so the bed started to creak and shake, and it was almost like somebody was taking my mattress and moving it back and forth."
Lucas Griswold, a dispatcher in West Salem, said the Edwards County sheriff's department received reports of minor damage and no injuries.
"Oh, yeah, I felt it. It was interesting," Griswold said. "A lot of shaking."
Indiana State Police spokesman Sgt. Todd Ringle in Evansville said there were no immediate reports of damage.
They said on the local tv news here in Atlanta that it was felt here.
I can't say if it was or not - I was snoozing!
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It woke my wife and I both up, though the kids slept through it. Very bizarre.
The windows were rattling like they sometimes do in high winds, but I could tell the wind wasn't blowing. Then I thought, "What is someone doing to our house to make it shake?" Hey, I was groggy.
My wife said something about an earthquake and we turned on the TV and the very early local news (which I've never seen) was on and they were talking about it, having just had their set shake a bit during their broadcast -- they kept playing that part of it over and over, giving those early-bird broadcasters a lot more exposure than they've had before throughout the day, no doubt.
I didn't feel the aftershocks that apparently went through around 11:00 or so though.
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It woke me up, but I thought it was the train and went back to sleep. I was surprised to hear what it really was when I woke up again.
I must admit, if I was 100% asleep I probably would have slept through it too! It was my first time feeling an earthquake, a very odd feeling.Originally Posted by Big Boss Man
Glad to hear that everyone is safe and unharmed. We don't get that stuff here in canada.
My wife and I were awake when the quake hit at 4:36. We're about 10 miles east of St. Louis in Illinois, and about 140 miles from the epi-center of the quake. We thought at first it was a loud wind and rumble of thunder-but when the bed began to shake I told her this is a tremor. It lasted about a minute an a half. We got another smaller tremor at about 10:30 this morning.
I checked our house to see if it caused any foundation cracks and it did not.
S-p-o-o-k-y feeling to know theres not a thing you can do as its happening.
i felt it... it woke me up at 5:30 am or so. my bed was shaking and the closet doors in my room were shaking...it was weird.
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