earthquake

Did anyone feel the earthquake in Illinois this morning?

are you serious???

I gotta say that stuff just scares the crap out of me

How bad was it? I hope it was just a bit of nudging not anything serious anywhere in illinois!

At another board I belong to, most of the members are in Ill, and they say a second one just happened.
Perhaps an after shock. Last month there was one in Missouri. Sounds like the New Madrid fault may be waking up

It was a 5.2 last I heard.
Said they felt it for a few states around.

I hope no one was injured. Mother Nature is a very powerful thing.

at 4:36 am, we were awoken by a vibrating house (or so it felt), and now I have to straighten every picture hanging on the walls. SW KY

The hit was near Vincennes Indiana. No damage reported.

Glad y'all had no damage! That is always a major plus!

I saw the news pics of .... oh crap. I cant remmeber the name of the town. it was 5:30 this morning.. but there was bricks and debris in the street. I dont know if anyone was hurt in that town, but they did have some structrual damage. They said a bridge had been down for checking but they opened it back up.

There was one in Missouri last month?? Must've slept right through that one! Ha ha!

We're 350 miles away, and we didn't feel anything.

Last I heard no one was injured... hope that is still the case

Yes I hope no one was injured.. can't even protect urself from earthquake... structural damage sucks too tho.

There was one in South texas a week or so ago, no dame, something like a 3.2, but still.

bizzeedee wrote:at 4:36 am, we were awoken by a vibrating house (or so it felt), and now I have to straighten every picture hanging on the walls. SW KY

The hit was near Vincennes Indiana. No damage reported.

I thought it happened in Ill? My hubby said Salem.

Honey wrote:

bizzeedee wrote:at 4:36 am, we were awoken by a vibrating house (or so it felt), and now I have to straighten every picture hanging on the walls. SW KY

The hit was near Vincennes Indiana. No damage reported.

I thought it happened in Ill? My hubby said Salem.

He's right. Our paper tonight had a better update than the web did at 7 this morning. Salem it was. And I also read that there was damage to buildings in Louisville, KY... here in Hopkinsville, they did check bridges for structural damage, er make that one bridge, we're a small town. And there was a photo of some liquor store up in IL... zillions of bottles laying on the floor... oh man, what a waste.

My pictures ar still crooked. Hey, they said we could have after shocks... so will wait a few days, wouldn't want to go thru straighenting photos again

Ugh, I don't even wanna think about it. We live in central Illinois and I just happened to be awake when it hit because the baby was having a bad night. I didn't know what to think. We were suppose to have thunderstorms so I thought maybe a tornado cropped up so we were ready to go hide when it stopped shaking. Then of course I'm sitting at my desk later that morning and it starts shaking again when the second one hit. I'm not cut out for this earthquake stuff!

Glad none of you were terribly affected by the quake. We have had several here in Idaho and they can be very frightening.

I heard that some people in Toronto said that they felt the quake, but here in my little corner of Ontario I was at work all night and didn't feel a thing.

I never noticed it, and I'm not that far away.

You must have slept through it!

I was probably awake. Zoe had a fever and slept with us and fussed and kicked all night. I know I was awake at 3, at 4, at 5. She's feeling better now, though.

I hate when the kids are sick! Glad she's feeling better now!

oh no poor baby!!

Aww poor girl, I hope she's feeling better.

Can't say i have ever experienced an earthquake, or any other natural disaster for that matter. The one perk to living in nowhere NY. That's all scary stuff, we have occasional flooding and huge snowfalls and ice storms but thats' normal and not usually life threatening.

She's fine today. Caly had it a few days ago and it was the same thing. Sick for about 6 hours, then fine.

idatater46 wrote:Glad none of you were terribly affected by the quake. We have had several here in Idaho and they can be very frightening.

Several in Idaho? When? I know there was a good sized one back in the 80's. And where do you live in Idaho, btw?

Honey wrote:At another board I belong to, most of the members are in Ill, and they say a second one just happened.
Perhaps an after shock. Last month there was one in Missouri. Sounds like the New Madrid fault may be waking up

You didn't feel it, Rochelle? We could feel it here and you are closer to it than we are. The one around 10:15 we felt too. It wasn't as big though. And let's not talk about the Madrid fault and jinx it...the last time that baby opened up it ran the Mississippi backwards for 2 days. *Shudder* I don't want any part of it and we live too close!!!