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Illinois Earthquake

I thought it was a tornado at first until I ruled it out from the lack of audible weather and sirens.

I was a step away from my doorway and yelling my family awake.
 
Eidorian said:
I thought it was a tornado at first until I ruled it out from the lack of audible weather and sirens.

I was a step away from my doorway and yelling my family awake.
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I thought it was a tornado too, but it was just weird I never experienced an earthquake before then boom I was awoken to my house shaking lol.
 
Middle Tennessee - Not sure if I felt shaking, but something woke me up suddenly... afterwards all I heard was a deep rumble. :confused:

Around 4:55 - 5:00.
 
I'm in Cedar Rapids Iowa and I felt it. Woke me up and my first thought was "Was that an earthquake? Nah, not in the middle of Iowa." Then this morning on my way to work they're talking about it on the radio. Guess the Midwest can still keep you guessing after all...
 
I slept right through it. Which sucks, because it sounds like a small earthquake would be a fun thing to experience :D
 
I didn't feel a thing, although remember something falling off my nightstand early in the morning. I remember the similarly intense quake back in 1987. Everyone else I have talked to in Lafayette seemed to have felt it. The news said that there was no reported damage in Indy and kept showing pictures of the new football stadium they are building. Crazy day.

Did anyone feel any of the aftershocks?
 
"OMG, the Earth just moved!!"

"Suffer, baby."

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PS" Would someone volunteer to check the birth stats for the Mid-West in 9 months?? Thanks.
 
I live in the South Loop area of Chicago and was up making coffee when the quake struck. My 6 story building shuddered a little bit, shower doors made a rattling noise. I thought that maybe a truck had hit the vaulted street in a weird spot. My dog was a bit freaked out. Turned on the news a little later to discover there had been a quake.
 
There wasn't an earthquake. It was Charlie Weis and Mark Mangino playing musical chairs. Mark pulled the chair out from under Charlie and he fell.
 
I felt it too. I was like, "The bed is moving". :) I thought I was hallucinating for a minute. Then I found out what it was today. Actually, it felt kind of nice.
 
Woke us up here in St. Louis. Scared my wife. I was mildly concerned about my 1:18 die-cast race cars sitting on the fireplace mantel.

Felt the second, shorter R4.5 tremor later in the morning.
 
leekohler said:
I felt it too. I was like, "The bed is moving". :) I thought I was hallucinating for a minute. Then I found out what it was today. Actually, it felt kind of nice.
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From previous posts I figured your bed was rarely stationary? Or did the neighbors make you bolt it down? Or is this just a way to throw suspicion away from yourself as the cause?
 
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