Earthquake
 

Who felt the earth quake?

I felt it in Chicago.

0439 am cst 5.4 magnitude.

Madison here. I didn't feel a thing but my husband swears he did.

We're in the western suburbs. Interestingly, both my daughter and I woke up right at about 4:40 (well before the alarms go off), but I wasn't aware of it until I saw the report on the Trib site.

cheribob:

Yes I am across the river from St. Louis and woke up the shaking and rattling of the house. I immediately thought of an earth quake.

Sandy

I was very startled!!! Live in St Louis - I thought it was strong winds at first with my windows opened - but quickly relaized it was indeed an earthquake!

Hmmm, I wonder whether the New Madrid fault is waking up. Sure hope not!

Meant to include this link to info about the New Madrid earthquakes, which were long ago but some of the most powerful ever felt in the US.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/...hp#december_16

Yep, got a huge quake up call in the high rise. The whole place shook and knocked a lot of things off the wall and everything is falling out when I open the cabinets.

I grew up right near the New Madrid fault in Southern Illinois and my parents were up when I called at 4:45 or so. Drove their pets crazy, but they haven't found any damage to the house.

Oddly, when I got to work early (couldn't fall back asleep), no one else even felt it ... they think I'm exaggerating. But, maybe it's the higher up on my floor and near the lake? Weird.

Or maybe you're a just lighter sleeper.

Felt a little rumble in suburban Detroit.

I felt it here in Chicago too! It didn't wake me up, so I think if I had been sleeping I wouldn't have noticed things shaking at all.

I think the proper greeting today is: HEY, MAN, WHAT’S SHAKING?

5.4 is a rather strong one, can’t go unnoticed, but hopefully not strong enough for damages.

Is this the one I brought to Chicago from San Francisco? ;)

Gee, ilana, what does that mean? There are lots of "rumblings" in Detroit all the time -- but most have nothing to do with earthquakes! LOL

Hello all. I have read that there are no reports of deaths or injuries, I sure hope that is true!

Evidently the EQ is now said to be a 5.2, but that is still a strong EQ.

By the way, your EQ happened on the 102nd Anniversary of the Great Quake in San Francisco.

oh wow aint that something on the anniversary

We were awakened in Louisville when a wooden candle holder with a glass globe made quite a tinkling noise on the dresser (5:39 am EDT). We had the windows open, too, and thought at first a bird had flown into the screen.

We were talking about this at lunch today at school. We're in the southeastenmost corner of KY and two of the teachers said they felt it this morning. I was sound asleep and didn't even notice until I heard about it on the radio.

Felt it in Tennessee (between Nashville and Knoxville). Woke my husband up and made him get in the doorway. He thought I was dreaming.

I'm in central IL and I woke up when the windows started rattling. We had aftershocks mid morning. Fortunately no damage reported; everyone is excited!

It didn't wake us up, but some of our neighbors and co workers definitely felt some shaking and trembling in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area.

As Jerry Lee Lewis once said, "A whole lotta shaking going on!!"

My sister in Indy slept thru the first quake but said the second was like being in a plane with turbulence. She's OK, just a little shook up.

(pun intended)

:-))

Good to hear the earth moved for so many of our American friends, without casualties or damage. Here in Australia Reuters reported that the quake was in the Wabash Valley seismic zone, adjacent to the New Madrid fault. The latter is given a sobering mention in Simon Winchester's <i>A Crack in the Edge of the World; the Great American Earthquake of 1906</i>. Winchester also records that the New Madrid/ Wabash nexus is one of four locations in the middle of the North American tectonic plate where earthquakes simply should not happen but do - and that similar examples include the Newcastle, Australia quake of 1989 [11 lives lost and much property damage], which many felt rather spectacularly in Sydney (desks moving in skyscraper offices; in my case a noisy whipcracking sound and a large mirror flapping on the wall of my then Sydney home, which initially led me to think that I'd left a sliding door open and a gale had come up - the door was closed.)