Earthquake

[WSUCougar]

Got awakened at around 4:30 a.m. by the house shaking pretty violently. Turns out we had a 5.4 quake in the St. Louis area. YIKES

[Poli]

You felt it? Looks like it was about 130 miles out. I woke up about a half hour later, but I can't say I felt the quake.

I did feel a minor quake in the area 2 years ago about this time.

[JeeberD]

130 miles out in which direction? I hope the in-laws are OK...

[Poli]

Toward Illinois/Indiana...it was along their border.

[WSUCougar]

West Salem, IL

[illinifan999]

Felt my apartment shake while we were drinking and playing board games. Almost knocked some alcohol over. Almost.

[JeeberD]

Away from Joplin then, good...

Hope everyone out that way is safe.

[Ksyrup]

We didn't "feel" it per se here (Lexington, KY), but at 5:37 our bathroom door popped open and woke me and the wife up. We both assumed the cat did it (although we didn't see him), but now we're thinking it was the earthquake. I wouldn't have woken up if I hadn't heard the door, but I'm fairly sure some sort of reverb from the quake opened that door.

[JPhillips]

It woke us up in western IN. It was a pretty good shake.

[sterlingice]

I doubt we were far enough east to feel it here in Lawrence, but I probably wouldn't have waken up anyways.

I remember in the early 90s, there was a salt dome up near Brenham, about an hour from Houston, where there was a gas leak and huge explosion. I remember my sister and I getting ready for school and feeling it in our house and wondering if we had just had an earthquake- it was the oddest thing.

It also didn't make any sense since our mom is a geophysicist and said there can't be earthquakes in Houston since we sit on a giant pile of clay, not bedrock. The ground essentially goes squish, not snap when there's movement. So, that why there's a lot of slipping faults where the road can be displaced by a few inches (building there must be a pain in places) but they can never build up enough pressure to create an earthquake.

SI

[Young Drachma]

Apparently, my coworkers felt it here. I didn't, but I live literally right next to train tracks, so my house always shakes.

[Warhammer]

I got a phone call at 4:50 this morning from my buddy in Champaign, IL. He had been woken up by the quake and after checking with his parents in Chicago called down here. He thought the New Madrid had given way and figured it was much worse down here.

I think I was woken up by it, but was too busy with my head cold to notice, while the girl staying in our guestroom said it felt like something was tugging the bed.

[kcchief19]

Can't say that I felt anything here in KC although there are reports of people who did feel it. Can't say that I notice anything that moved.

Regardless, I've been dying to use the old George Miller line:

Yeah, I felt the earthquake. In my pants.

[JPhillips]

We just got another shake, but nothing on USGS yet.

[Warhammer]

Holy cow its been active up there today. About 7 earthquakes up there, 2 of which have been larger than a 4.0.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

while the girl staying in our guestroom said it felt like something was tugging the bed.

Good move allowing her to believe it was the earthquake.

[Drake]

I've definitely been enjoying the aftershocks. They make me feel less hungover.

"No, no, it isn't *me*. It's the *world* that's shaking!"

[AENeuman]

FYI, the 102nd anniversary of the 1906 San francisco earthquake was this morning at 5:02 am. Mother Nature must be a romantic

[Logan]

All good out here in NY.

Seriously, hope everyone's ok.

[Poli]

Felt my apartment shake while we were drinking and playing board games. Almost knocked some alcohol over. Almost.Starting to feel old here. :(

[jeheinz72]

Ha it always cracks me up how the rest of the country (I'm California born and raised) treats earthquakes. Earthquakes in America are almost always very very low in fatalities compared to other disasters.

[Drake]

We feel the same way about how Californians react to rain.

[Neon_Chaos]

My boss told me that he felt the earthquake all the way up in Tinley Park.

[Passacaglia]

My boss told me that he felt the earthquake all the way up in Tinley Park.

People in high-rises in the city said they felt things, and lurker said that she found some board that was leaning against a wall in our apartment, that had fallen over the litter box, so that might have been from the earthquake.

[dervack]

I felt it a bit here in Romeoville.

[INDalltheway]

We felt both quakes today in West Lafayette.

[Neuqua]

Felt it here in Naperville...

[ColtCrazy]

I felt it here in South Central Indiana. Woke me up and most of the school I work at said they felt it/woke them up. Cause some damage to older buildings around us. Kinda of weird.

[tarcone]

I felt neither. It woke my wife up though. The aftershock got the kids at school wound up.
My poor town is facing the apocalypse. Floods, earthquakes. Im waiting for a plague.

[Poli]

That's tomorrow.


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[sterlingice]

Next up, death of the firstborn?

SI