IL/IN/MO Quake

[Cobalt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_18%2C_2008_Midwest_Earthquake

Who felt it, and where?

I didn't feel anything this morning and I'm at halsted/taylor in Chicago.

[colin]

phillip and i felt it whle we were making out

[-Dirby-]

phillip and i felt it whle we were making out

:eek:

[m1lkman]

Im really far away here in Kansas City, didnt feel anything. I think on the news someone close to here said they heard/felt it. Probably just looking for attention though.

[Sponge]

champaign here. it woke me up for about 5 seconds but i just went back to sleep. i didn't even realize what it was until i saw it on the news this morning, kinda disappointed i missed out on the only earthquake i've ever been in.

[VeeKaChu]

I definitely felt it. I was sitting in my 22nd floor office in downtown Chicago, doing work stuff and not at all surfing the web (of course), when I felt the chair jerk ever so slightly upward. This was followed by about 15-20 seconds of similar, diminishing, up-and-down undulations.

Now you know how you can sit in a chair with casters on it and put your foot on the caster itself as if resting it on a stool or bar rail- and then cross your other leg over and then if you sit like that long enough you'll experience temporary nerve-damage and circulatory distress (i.e., you extremities "fall asleep"), and so I was in a similar state at the time of the temblor. So when I thought "oh sick, is that an earthquake tremor???", my next thought was interrupted by a tingling sensation in my jower joints, and I immediately wrote off thoughts of a quake as simply physiological hallucinations, induced by my constrained posture.

It wasn't until several hours later, when my wife called at about 06:55 to say that a co-worker of hers claimed she'd felt the quake in a far west suburb, when she couldn't possibly have, and then I was all like "Umm, what earthquake?"

Steve the brit walked into the office at just that moment, and I called out to him, "did we have an earthquake?" and he said, "Cor, blimey, it woke me, me shutters on me kitchen cabinets did rattle so!" And then- inwardly- I was all like "cool, I felt an earthquake!"

Supposedly it was felt as far north as Milwaukee.

[Cent]

phillip and i felt it whle we were making out

who is this phillip?

[beano]

champaign here. it woke me up for about 5 seconds but i just went back to sleep. i didn't even realize what it was until i saw it on the news this morning, kinda disappointed i missed out on the only earthquake i've ever been in.

Champaign... Woke me up for like 10 seconds, I didn't know what was going on.. Joked to myself that it was an earthquake, and what do ya know.. Checked the news and there it was. 5.2. I enjoyed it.

[colin]

who is this phillip?

vamp

[Freakle]

im in evanston, il (bout 20 min north of downtown chi) and I didnt feel anything (didnt wake up).

[Pr0sth3tic]

(30mi west of STL) I woke up and was like HAY why is my bed bouncing then rolled over and went back to sleep. But I was awake for the aftershock.

[chi-town]

im on the north side of chicago (15 mins away from wrigley field) and I didn't feel a thing :(

[WingNut]

They said that you could feel it as far south as North Georgia, but I didn't feel a thing here.
I do remember several years ago when Georgia had a 5.something magnatude quake that was pretty close. It had to have been the oddest thing that I've ever experienced, having the ground move like that.

[BlackThoughT]

(30mi west of STL) I woke up and was like HAY why is my bed bouncing then rolled over and went back to sleep. But I was awake for the aftershock.

bow chika wow, chika WOWOW chika wow

[RaisinBran]

Yeah I didn't feel it either
and im in Los angeles

[goldplatypus]

i'm in mid michigan and i didn't wake up but a bunch of friends said they felt some shaking from the the quake

[Hellz-Angel01]

I'm in Lafayette, IN and I definitely felt it really early in the morning. I was lyin in my bed listening to some music and I suddenly felt my bed start to shake. I took off my headphones and was like WTF? I looked around and my monitor on my desk was shaking as was the light hanging from the ceiling. Overall it lasted maybe 10-15 seconds for me and after I realized what was going on it was kinda fun!

[WingNut]

I'm in Lafayette, IN and I definitely felt it really early in the morning. I was lyin in my bed listening to some music and I suddenly felt my bed start to shake. I took off my headphones and was like WTF? I looked around and my monitor on my desk was shaking as was the light hanging from the ceiling.

/me thinks it was from the shrooms...

[Tripwire]

I'm glad this doesn't just happen in my state. At least we don't have ice storms and tornadoes.

[Thoth]

We had another one last night/early this morning, just another aftershock, but it was 4.5. I was awake still, tossing and turning trying to get some sleep, but I felt it.

[ruker]

Were you guys scareded? :o

[Thoth]

Considering most of us probably slept through it, I'd say no. Keep in mind that while a 5.2 isn't a big deal for California, we haven't really had an earthquake here since the late 80s/early 90s.

Would you panic if a tornado was ripping through your town?

[-Serialchilla-]

Would you panic if a tornado was ripping through your town?

Hell nah. If it got on my street, I'd prolly have a full-on pantload going.

[jennMWdragon]

Here's a site to check out and watch earthquake activity.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

Seems Northern California is active right now. We have yet to get the "Big One" in Southern California yet. 5.2 is nothing though. Just sleep through it. If you can still walk without being thrown against a wall it's not that big of a deal.

Although it's interesting that we're getting earthquake activity in areas where they don't usually happen or at least, people don't usually feel them. The faults all seem to be really active right now. I'm curious if it's a taste of things soon to come.

[Cobalt]

Too bad the New Madrid fault system might actually produce a 7.0 quake that's felt by 2/3rds of the country as opposed to one state.

[oPey]

I live in Milwaukee but i felt nothing, was probably sleeping even if I did feel it

[ruker]

Here's a site to check out and watch earthquake activity.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

Seems Northern California is active right now. We have yet to get the "Big One" in Southern California yet. 5.2 is nothing though. Just sleep through it. If you can still walk without being thrown against a wall it's not that big of a deal.

Although it's interesting that we're getting earthquake activity in areas where they don't usually happen or at least, people don't usually feel them. The faults all seem to be really active right now. I'm curious if it's a taste of things soon to come.

I was reading in the paper the other day that we are due for another "big one" within the next 30 years. COOL!

The last time we had a heavy quake, my friends second story apartment felt like it was swaying back and forth. It was more of a funny than fearful feeling though.