Anyone else feel the Earthquake?

[acosmichippo]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080418-AP-midwest-ear.html

Residents across the U.S. Midwest were awakened this morning by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake that appears to have caused no major injuries or damages. Two aftershocks during the next three hours measured magnitude 2.6 and 2.5. The quake, which struck just before 4:37 a.m. local time, was centered 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) from West Salem, Illinois (http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/states/state_illinois.html).

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woke me up. three times.

[Buffy]

Did you know what was happening right away? So strange to have earthquakes in the midwest!

[acosmichippo]

i had no idea until i woke up about 90 minutes ago. then i read a message from another forum, and i was like... hmm... is THAT what happened?

i had thought someone left clothes in the washing machine or something... i was sleeping, so i didn't really think about it.

[Eragon]

Actually, not that strange at all. A plant I used to inspect along the Missouri River is in the shadow of the New Madrid fault.

Don't know if it would have awakened me. Hard to differentiate between a genuine earthquake and a 50 pounder trying to make himself comfortable on the bed. :smile:

[Youngbinks]

I didn't feel it (obviously because I'm in Florida) but I read about it and was quite shocked. 5.2 is a rather significant quake especially for Indiana.

[acosmichippo]

the epicenter was in Southern Illinois.

[Youngbinks]

Oy, that's what a meant. Darn I-states.

[Eragon]

I didn't feel it (obviously because I'm in Florida) but I read about it and was quite shocked. 5.2 is a rather significant quake especially for Indiana.

The richter scale is logarithmic. A magnitude 7 quake, which is quite damaging to property, is 100 times more powerful.

[dturner]

Woke me up and I am pretty darn for from the epicenter. It was enough to shake things in the house. Didn't have a clue what it was till this morning when I was watching the news.

[Hayesimus]

well i'm in the very top right corner of Akansas and I had just gone to friends house at like 445 or something, and my friend asked me if i felt the ground shaking a little while ago. i was like, nah... well then we changed the channel and they were talking about the earthquake. SO... could we really have felt it this far away? or is it just a coincidence?!?