Didja feel the earthquake?

I'm in Downers Grove, about 30 miles directly west of Chicago and although my neighbors say they woke up, I felt nothing and slept right on thru it. Of the two neighbors I talked with, one woke up because her dog started barking at the time and the other one said her jewlery started shaking on her dresser...all in all the second Illinois earthquake I have lived thru and still have not felt a thing.

My only earthquake was a very light one in Switzerland in 2005. It was a boom for a second but then nothing more. I've lived in pretty earthquake free areas!

It woke me and my wife up here in Bowling Green, Ky. But it didn't wake up my 7 year old son. He was disappointed he slept through it.

Although news reports said it was felt as far south as Georgia, I have some doubts. It was not enough to wake me up in north Alabama. But we have had earthquakes strong enough to feel down here. The most recent one (four or five years ago) that I felt in Rome, Georgia, was apparently not associated with an identified fault. It was neat because I distinctly felt the difference in arrival time between the plate-rattling of the P waves and the room-swaying of the S waves.

I was totally dissapointed to spend 3 years in the Pacific Northwest and never feel an earthquake, yet when Dr R headed back to the UK ahead of me, he felt a British earth quake earlier this year.

It was fairly strong in Louisville, KY. Oddly, my daughter said they had an earthquake preparedness drill at school yesterday. Apparently part of 6th grade earthquake preparedness is to teach kids to turn off their iPods momentarily and shout loudly from the bathroom "Dad, what the heck is that?".

Woke me up in Louisville, KY. The loud rumble was just as confusing as the house shaking. I kept wondering if I had dreamed it, until I turned on the TV...

In Champaign on the first floor on a crawlspace, it certainly woke me up! I asked my husband, who sleeps through anything, if we should get into the doorway (mainly as an excuse to wake him up so he wouldn't miss it), but he says he doesn't remember anything. The crib is on wheels and it was creaking and banging for what seemed like a long time, maybe 10 seconds, but the little guy was in our bed and didn't really wake up.

yep, we felt it. and I am geek enough that I went to the USGS site and reported it.

We felt it here in Indianapolis. It seems like disasters accompany the annual Undergraduate Research Conference here at Butler University... :)

I was in one as a kid that was unexpected like this one, and thought it was mighty cool. But I'm a nerd.

Slept right through it. And so did my dog, according to my husband, who was the only one in our household who woke up. It was very mild here, but the local news is having a field day with it nonetheless. They've even got reporters out on the streets interviewing people about their "earthquake experience"!

When the shaking bed woke me at 4:37 in St. Louis, I thought my youngest had crawled in with me. I then assumed it was a small earthquake and went back to sleep. Last time I felt a quake, I was trying to weigh something on an old-style Mettler balance (before digital) but had to wait for everything to settle down.

Local news is giving it far too much coverage-look for a report on the New Madrid fault on tonights news.

It is about 10:15 am cst in Bowling Green, Ky. and it felt like we just had another tremor.

Damn! I am so jealous. Like propter doc, having lived 5 years in the PNW, you woulda thougt, but no.

Yes, I think we felt an aftershock here too -- about 11:15 EDT! Crazy. I didn't notice this one, but it caused a twitter around the office...

Report what you felt! Your experience is data for making maps of seismic intensity.

I caught the end of it in St. Louis. At some point in the morning, I was realized that I was watching my bookcases move, and hey, and I was awake, and I felt my bed moving back and forth, and then the craziness stopped. A few seconds later, the birds outside my window started to tiwtter irritatingly. That's when I realized I had not been dreaming it.

It was other worldly, or, actually, concretely worldly. I have slept through tremors before, but this one was unmissable. My roommate in the other room was woken up and her cat was surprised. My cats, bless 'em, may have looked up but weren't too concerned. Most amusing, however, was the news coverage. It took about 20 minutes for them to get on the air with it, and they said, yes, there had been an earthquake (for some reason the meteorologist was the one who broke the news). And while he was talking, someone came running into the newsroom and made noise off of camera, and he gently scolded them that he was on the air.

The morning news crew was in their offices when it happened, and they mentioned the swaying lights and some grumbling. Then, drat it, the traffic person said, "My dog did not leave my side this morning...It makes you wonder." When do dogs EVER leave you alone, I would like to know? Anyway, a little pattern seeking after the fact, I thought.

I slept through the aftershock.

HJ

We felt it in Farmington, MO approximately 136 miles southwest of the epicenter. We also felt the 4.6 that occurred later. Being brought up in California I immediately knew what this was. I called the local police to know that they were aware and stated it had to be 5.0>, next went to the USGS and it had not been reported at this point.
Later it was interesting to see Larry Conners (of KMOV-TV) in a baseball cap broadcasting the earthquake news...he clearly had not had time to adjust his toupee.
It is amazing to see how many midwesterners just awoke to the fact that "we built this city on rock and roll..."

I grew up in California, so I usually got to feel a couple of earthquakes a year. I always thought they were cool. You got to duck under your desk, run to a doorway, count how many seconds the earthquake lasted, etc etc... When the '89 earthquake hit the Bay Area, I had so much fun because the shaking lasted almost a minute, and it was one where literally you could see the ground rolling. Then I went home and saw on the news how many people had died in the double-decker freeway collapse and I felt horribly guilty that I enjoyed myself during the earthquake. Ever since then, I've always felt guilty and sad whenever an earthquake hit.

Should have searched Twitter.com, there were lots of posts about it within a minute or two of it happening. I used Quotably.com to search Twitter actually. I don't know if it was just a coincidence or not, but I woke from a strange dream at 4:38AM... but far away in Abilene, TX... but also around the same time the P-Wave should have been here... Don't recall feeling anything, but I know it's definitely not normal for me to get up that early.

My mother in Springfield Il said that it woke her up and that there is a crack in the street...

My friend in Atlanta, GA had no idea about it until the news reports...

I was a little kid during the 1957 Daly City quake near San Francisco, and I thought it was REAL interesting, not funny-laughing but not scary-crying either. It was the biggest event in the Bay area since 1906, whose anniversary is today.

I'm further from the epicenter than you are, but I was woken by it, too. I didn't quite realize what was going on until I got up later! I wrote a blog post about it....

I'm so bummed that I slept right through it!

I slept through it in Chicago, but at least I have a good explanation for my apocalyptic nightmare that morning.

I felt it at 5:37 (EST) in Columbus, OH.