So did you feel the IL earthquake this morning???

[Cruise04]

There was an earthquake in IL that registered at 1:11am this morning. The epicenter was 9 miles NW of Ottawa near where I grew up. I didn't feel it because I was so exhausted that I don't think anything would have woken me up and it was only a 4.5 at the epicenter and 2.2 in Rockford.

So, did you feel it????

 

[minniepumpernickel]

That is so strange! Have they ever had anything like that before? What is the name of the fault that runs through the area? I don't live anywhere near there.

 

[MosMom]

The fault is called the New Madrid fault and supposedly it will have a big one someday. I remember back in high school they were predicting that it was going to happen soon and my grandma packed up all of her china...never happened.

I have experienced two here in Indiana. One when I was about 10 and one just a few years ago.

Being in a little earthquake is the weirdest feeling I've ever felt. I can't imagine being in a big one. It is like everything turns to jello. It is really bizarre.

 

[MonorailDude]

I would have never felt by that time.

 

[Deb in IA]

I did, all the way over here in Iowa City!!!


Was sleeping, and felt/sensed the entire house go "WHUMP"!! Wondered, "What the heck was that?"

Figured I must have been dreaming, so I went back to bed.

 

[Eeyore1954]

Slept right through it ... if the impact even came near Chicago.

 

[Connieh]

Just going to bed about the time and remember thinking "that's not a truck passing by that's an earthquake" I felt the house shaking all the way in Southern Wisconsin.

Also remember feeling a rumble while in Chicago in the early 80's

 

[Cruise04]

The last one was in Dixon in 1999. I remember them talking about it but I don't remember feeling anything near us. It was two days before my wedding....now if would have been big I would have remembered that one!!!!!

Here's some info that I found interesting - it's a map and if you click around you can see how many people in which towns reported feeling the shake...

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/STORE/Xkgad_04/ciim_display.html

I also found this - this is pretty cool to look at - quakes reported and the blue ones are the ones for today alone....

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

 

[mermaidlady]

I was awake at work and didn't feel a thing. However we did have one in 1987. I remember that one because some things fell off a shelf and my DH (newly married) freaked. Since I lived by the railroad tracks all my life I told him relax it's just a freight train giong by, totally forgetting I didn't live by the tracks anymore!

 

[crz4mm2]

It woke me up too. I thought it was thunder at first.
I remember one several years ago. My son was little and was outside playing. we lived in an old mobile home at the time. I felt the whole place moving and I yelled at my son to get off the tongue of the trailer!! I thought he was jumping up and down on it! It was the earthquake.

Funny when you feel them here in the midwest where we really don't expect to.

 

[tinaluis]

Didn't feel a thing. In fact, when a co-worker asked me if I felt the earthquake last night, I asked her if that was a rhetorical question, LOL.

 

[Joyciemc]

It's nuts- we had an earthquake back in Massachusetts that I missed. Now, I'm in Chicago and miss another one? Either I'm super unobservant (I was awake at 1 am last night), or I just blamed my loud downstairs neighboor.

 

[KimRaye]

Originally posted by mermaidlady
However we did have one in 1987.

That's the one I remember! I was pregnant with DS, and I even marked it in HIS baby book! LOL

I didn't feel last night's tho, even tho I was awake!