5.4 earthquake in the midwwest USA

Thats so scary, I hope every stays safe!

I felt it up in Ft. Wayne, but I thought I was dreaming. I ended up having a dream about a tornado afterwards! When I took the kits to the vet she asked if I felt the earthquake and at that point I realized it was real!

You know I have one of those clothes bag things. It fell over sometime this morning. I just assumed it was the cats being crazy, but mabye it was the earthquake?

The news says that earthquakes in the Midwest are felt for much further because the ground is sedimentary and there are fewer fault lines to disperse the energy of the quake.

My friends in Dayton felt it, and I remember waking up around then and Zissou was wigging out, but I didn't feel anything-- of course, I'm on the third floor of a concrete-block building, so little wiggles are nothing very new to me.

Originally Posted by esrgirl

I felt it up in Ft. Wayne, but I thought I was dreaming. I ended up having a dream about a tornado afterwards! When I took the kits to the vet she asked if I felt the earthquake and at that point I realized it was real!

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OMG, I had a dream about a tornado this morning too!!!!!!!!! DH and I both woke up around the time the earthquake happened. So maybe we did feel it and just didn't realize it.

It wasn't much more than a steady rumbling here, and I probably would have slept through it; except that the tribe positively panicked! 8 cats were going 11 different directions as once.

I was having trouble sleeping to begin with, and Sabina and I felt it start at the same time...she bolted out of bed like her butt was on fire! This isn't the first one I've felt here in Chicago, so I knew what it was immediately. It feels like someone is holding on to the footboard of my bed and is shaking it back and forth. This was the longest and the strongest earthquake I've felt here. Of course, it's nothing by California or Japan standards.

I don't know about this week...first a cougar on the loose, and now an earthquake. I'm not sure where I live anymore...it sure doesn't feel like Chicago!

Originally Posted by luvmycat1

OMG, I had a dream about a tornado this morning too!!!!!!!!! DH and I both woke up around the time the earthquake happened. So maybe we did feel it and just didn't realize it.

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I bet you did... I know I woke up at 5something but I don't remember the exact time... might have been around 5:30?

There was a 4.5 aftershock at 11:15ish too.

Originally Posted by gemlady

I have been in contact with adymarie who lives in Canada and she has heard reports that someone in a Toronto highrise felt it.

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I find that hard to believe!

I felt the aftershock but not the original quake. Trinity was acting wierd last night though and all of them went crazy when it happened. Between cats running around crazy and Henri thumping, I woke up but I didn't know what happened until later on when I heard it on the radio.

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

I find that hard to believe!

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Yea that is twice as far away as I am, and Zissou is the only one here that could feel it. But there is really a woman who says she felt it http://canadianpress.google.com/arti...Q1Af-ecQ9RK1IA

Well, she certainly got her name in the news, didn't she.

Originally Posted by twstychik

I bet you did... I know I woke up at 5something but I don't remember the exact time... might have been around 5:30?

There was a 4.5 aftershock at 11:15ish too.

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I was up at 11:15 and didn't feel any aftershock. Of course 4.5 isn't as big as the first one.

We felt a slight rumbling here in St. Louis. The first one woke me up and I did feel the second one. The cats really didn't go bonkers, which surprises me

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

I find that hard to believe!

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I do too but I actually have a member on another board from Ontario that posted this. . .
I know this may sound odd. Being that im very far from you all. But I woke up last night and my bed was shaking.I thought maybe sparky was running through the house. Again I was half asleep and din't realize a 3 pound dog cant do that.

I think you guys sent it to me

Who knows, maybe somehow they did?

I read somewhere other than the post given that these types of earthquakes in this part of the US can be felt as far as 900 miles away. Even someone in Florida said that they felt it. Apparently the quakes in this part of the country are a bit different than those in Cali.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/18/illinois.earthquake/

"Pretty typically for these eastern-central U.S. earthquakes, they're felt over a very broad area," said Dave Applegate, USGS senior science adviser, adding that quakes in California tend to be more localized.

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I was dead asleep. If people up in Canada felt it, I'm sure it was felt in Kansas City.

Here is the video of the local newscasters as it hit. I think Evansville has the closest TV stations to the epicenter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h56WU...eature=related

I'm in suburban Chicago and I slept right through it- the original and aftershocks (so far). My co-worker, who lives even farther north, close to the Wisconsin border, said that she couldn't sleep and was on the couch watching The Omen when all of a sudden the couch started shaking violently. Ooo boy, was she freaked out until she flipped to the news and found out what happened!

Albus and the dog didn't seem to be agitated before or since. Albus is so talkative anyway, I don't think I would have known the difference!

I was in the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989. Our Last 5.4 Quake was Oct 30th 2007. My Cats act hyper before Earthquakes hit. My Roses flew off my Computer Desk when it hit. I know none of you are used to Quakes. Some people wont live here because of our Quakes. You will get Aftershocks over there. We are used to Quakes here.

My bf and I thought we felt some aftershocks a couple of hours ago, or someone was banging wrecklessly on the walls in our apartment building.