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Did anyone feel the small quake this morning? This house shook and it's the old style brick, my wife thought I was falling out of bed. It was something that happens in Indiana from time to time feels very strange. It was felt in Ohio also. Did anyone else feel it? If so how far did it go I wonder?

Richard

Originally Posted by ford2custom

Did anyone feel the small quake this morning? This house shook and it's the old style brick, my wife thought I was falling out of bed. It was something that happens in Indiana from time to time feels very strange. It was felt in Ohio also. Did anyone else feel it? If so how far did it go I wonder?

Richard

On the news, they said it stretched from Georgia to Michigan. I remember us having one in Illinois in the late 60s-early '70s.

I heard it originated in Illinois

Was it California finally slipping off into the Pacific??



This is from Fox:

"The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered six miles from West Salem, Ill., and 45 miles from Evansville, Ind."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351698,00.html

I felt in SW Indiana it woke me up from a dead sleep. It did originate in IL and it registered a 5.2 on the Richter scale. My wife thought it was a tornado until we looked outside and saw the clear sky and then we knew. There have also been aftershocks all morning. Not something we are used to having in IN.

slept right thru it and alarm went off about 4:50 am . Last one of this size was back in 68 or so.

Originally Posted by IC2

Was it California finally slipping off into the Pacific??



This is from Fox:

"The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered six miles from West Salem, Ill., and 45 miles from Evansville, Ind."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351698,00.html

Nope were still here!

Jeremy536

We live in North Central In.
I've been gone for most of the day but my wife said that on news they called it a rare large earthquake 5.2 and it started in Il. They felt it in Cincinnati, Ohio. This was second time I felt one; I first one was in the late 80's. I was setting in a metal chair on the concrete patio, the chair was moving I had never felt one before it was strange. They say this is a fault line.

Richard

didnt exactly feel like a "small quake" here in evansville, IN. woke me right up. scared my 6 yr old daughter but my boys slept right through it. i just froze in bed until it stopped. freaked me out!

im on the boat and this A.M. i was just above evansville indiana northbound
there was a lot of chatter goin on the radio but i didnt feel a thing out here..
im glad no one was injured..

malibufreak

I used small because I haven't been around too many but this brick house was shaking. It was like a Jet flying low overhead, for a brick house to rattle it was more then a small one. It's like being the only person to see a UFO until someone else says they saw it to, you don't know what is happening. After the house was shacking then a second smaller one came. Could you imagine being in San Francisco when they had the last big one in the 80’s?

Richard

I was here! 45 miles north in my 1858 home. In the early 1990's We had three 6.0 and greater earth quakes(all separate faults) in a 48 hour period while I was in school at Humboldt State. First one sounded like a football team on the roof, threw my roomates truck into the street right off the drive way, lifted the concrete up two inches, second one hit while at school, and third one right after, third one actually leveled the drive way again. 45 miles to the south of us on the lost coast, the sea floor lifted 12 feet into the air. everything in the tidal pools started to die being up about 10 feet above the water. I was a marine biologist then and it was a facinating thing to see and study. Earth quakes unnerve us, but tornados that some of you guys get scare the bagejesus out of me, and lets not forget the Hurricanes!

That was unbelievable what I can remember highway's looking like sandwiches people being trapped. I can't remember the exact year but I know it was after 86 because my wife, daughter, and I went across the golden gate bridge and thought how nice everything was. Just goes to show anything can happen anyplace anytime. It's hard to believe people can get back to going about their business after that. We have had some pretty bad tornados in the mid west when they leave they pretty much level the ground.

Richard

I remember as a kid going with my father to Coalinga, about 1.5 hours from my house (except we used to fly in his plane so was faster). this was mid-80's, big earthquake had leveled many many homes and businesses there and he was rebuilding.

I have wondered since I heard the blurp on the news earlier today if that fault is the one I heard about in geography 10 years ago. supposedly there's a horrible fault that lies between chicago and new orleans, runs through st. louis I think, (not good with map but trying to go from memory here) teacher had said that it had the potential to level every city along it from new orleans north, chicago on bedrock so ok. this is the fault that last time it really gave way in the 1800's the mississippi ran backwards for 6 hours.

Red

I Too can remember seeing a program about the fault line. Unless they talk about it pretty often we forget like I have until you mentioned it. It looked pretty scary.

Richard