We Had An Earthquake!!!

[bizzokiki]

Originally Posted by sweetaspie

Same here Barbi. I turned on the news before work to make sure I wasn't crazy. It woke up my 7 years old son. He came in told me a monster was under his bed shaking him. Felt some aftershocks too around 10:15 or so.

Aww, that's cute, but probably not to him, lol.

[Mark05]

I have 2 friends here in SE Iowa that experienced a gentle rocking but I slept through it Of course I can sleep through a train wreck

[Andiline]

Can relate... was woken up by a 5.9 earthquake in the middle of the night 16 years ago. Since we never had realized we lived in a prone area at first we didn't even know what it was....

[Mexivoof]

Originally Posted by Andiline

Can relate... was woken up by a 5.9 earthquake in the middle of the night 16 years ago. Since we never had realized we lived in a prone area at first we didn't even know what it was....

Actually the New Madrid (named after a small town in Missouri) fault was quite active with several earthquakes around 1800, including a BIG one in 1812 which actually changed the course of the Mississippi River.

When that goes again the entire midwest can expect some damage, especially St. Louis and Memphis, but as they were saying on the news today, also Chicago and Milwaukee.

Not living in an area with frequnt quakes leads us into complacency which will get us into trouble someday ... hopefully not soon.

[beachmidwife]

I'm in southern Indiana, and the first one this morning, I thought was the cat jumping on the bed and knocking stuff over on the dresser, until my daughter called and said the earthquake woke up her children. (My husband was driving to work and didn't feel it) Then later in the morning, I was visitng an Amish client of mine over in southeastern Illinois -- about 20 miles from the epicenter-- and we were sitting in her living room when the second one hit. THAT one was crazy! First we heard a rumbling, like thunder underground, and the house started to shake. Kinda surreal, actually.

[RonH]

It shook my house and woke us up. I was in a mechanical room in Louisville when the after shock hit about 11 am and didn't feel anything. All the experts say when the big one hits, it could be worse then anything that has happen in California.