Anyone else feel that quake? I have felt a few before but that one really shook the hell outta my house...the gf and me text each other at the same time... I am in KY...might as well go for a run now since up...
Anyone else feel that quake? I have felt a few before but that one really shook the hell outta my house...the gf and me text each other at the same time... I am in KY...might as well go for a run now since up...
Yes, woke us up.
We are in Northeast Indiana. But it sounds like 'whatever it was' was not as strong as your area.
Yes, in fact it was a quake. Local news just said the epicenter was near West Salem, Illinois.
Indeed it was..5.4 the largest one felt here since the 60's and it was not even the new madrid fault...now its time to get back to bed..
Wabash Valley Seismic Zone to be exact. Just as dynamic as New Madrid, just not as famous since a city the size of Memphis is not sitting on it.
I was in the middle of an 8 mile run..nothing at all, not even the stop lights moved..here and I am close to Evansville myself......
Is this one of those Orsone Welles type things?-ha
I just read about it, the story said it swayed buildings in downtown Chicago. I live in a highrise and I slept right through it.
I felt it here in southern indiana. it was cool
My wife and daughter both felt it here in Central Ohio. I was asleep.
Felt it here in Champaign/Urbana. Little shake followed by the larger one a few moments later.
Here on business, felt like I was home in LA. Very surprising!
I felt it in Lafayette, IN. Felt like my bed was rocking back and forth just a bit, I didn't know if I was imagining it or not. I did look at the clock and remember it was 5:37 am, 4:37 central which is when it occurred. I was thinking about going caving this weekend too, would've been rather 'interesting' if this had happened in the middle of a tight crawl.
I'm in NE Iowa and some people coming into work said they noticed it...I was asleep.
The server is down at work and IT blames the Earthquake.
I think they just suck and needed a reason for their own incompetence.
Slept through it in Louisville. Some old building south of Downtown lost some concrete. This area of the country just isn't built to handle large Earthquakes. If a 7.0 ever hit we'd be in the shitter. The largest quake to ever hit the New Madrid zone was estimated at an 8.0. The damage area is much much larger than in California. Something to do with the shape of the fault and the ground in the midwest.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Landkarte_New_Madrid_Erdbeben.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/NMSZ_Vergleich.jpg
Alan
Wiki is on the ball...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_18%2C_2008_Midwest_Earthquake
I'm in Evansville. It shook my house for what seemed like at least 45 seconds. I was in Cape Girardeau in 1990 when the quake there sent everyone into a panic. This one felt like about the same magnitude. As I recall, that one was around 5.2 or so as well.
Mike Hillyard wrote:
I'm in Evansville. It shook my house for what seemed like at least 45 seconds. I was in Cape Girardeau in 1990 when the quake there sent everyone into a panic. This one felt like about the same magnitude. As I recall, that one was around 5.2 or so as well.
Evansville is a wonderful town, great history and leadership.
Just had another quake...
[yawn]
My wife and I didn't feel it, but we did "hear" it here in southeast Michigan. We have a little glass decorative piece on our armoire. Everytime you open or close the door of the armoire it rattles. Last night we both woke up to the sound of it rattling. Neither of us looked at the clock, but I'm sure that's what it was.
CNN reported there were people in Florida who claimed to have felt it. Yeah, right. 900 miles away on their little isoloation units, called beds, on top of their giant isolation units, called a sandbar, and they felt it.