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Posts
April 18, 2008 5:08 AM
Wow - you felt it up there? I'm in Central. Dare I said I actually had Fun! I don't know compare notes with my post, and let me know if I'm CRAZY or something?
April 18, 2008 5:10 AM
Wow - you fel it all the way up there? I'm in Central IL closer to the epicenter and I think I had Fun. I used to live in Cali too.
I dunno, compare notes with my post - am I Crazy for enjoying myself through these now?
April 18, 2008 5:18 AM
I'm in the Quad-Cities off the Iowa border. It shook our entire hospital for about 1 minute.
April 18, 2008 6:04 AM
The local news this morning is full of reports of people here in the Detroit area who felt the quake. I was asleep and didn't notice anything.
April 18, 2008 8:01 AM
Thomas
You felt both quakes? I was in a construction supply store this morning and one of the workers who lives on the South side said he also felt two. I felt the tail end of the last one apparently.
Good idea to recount the 1989 quake. I was there too. In S.F. Brings back memories.I will keep reading.
April 18, 2008 8:33 AM
We had a 5-point-something earthquake here about five years ago (epicenter about a mile away from our home). It felt like a semi going 60 miles per hour hit our house! My husband, having lived on the West Coast for many years knew exactly what it was. Many people in the community thought a bomb had gone off. The reason is was such a harsh jolt (rather than the swaying you usually feel) was because of the basalt in this area. We had over 60 aftershocks in the next few months.
Earlier in the year, an earthquake hit Olympia, our capital city, and it cracked the dome on the capitol building. We felt it, 300 miles away. I was at my computer and noticed all the blinds and the plants swinging gently, and got a slightly dizzy feeling.
We had them in Alaska, too, but I never noticed them.
April 18, 2008 10:55 AM
Thomas, Did not feel this one in Mississippi. Living in Tennessee a few years ago we felt one --- and heard it coming. The noise was worse than the shake.
Just a few minutes ago a 4.5 mag aftershock was registered (the sixth and so far the strongest aftershock of the original 5.2 quake). Did you feel it?
The New Madrid line is about half-way between our locations.
TERRY
April 18, 2008 12:46 PM
Thomas:
I am so sensitive to earthquakes I think I may have felt it in Seattle. O.K., maybe not.
I, too, was in California for the Loma Prieta and blogged about it in my Great San Francisco Earthquake post today.
Quite an experience! Oh, and the New Madrid in Missouri, and the big one in Washington. Might be good to stay as far away from me as possible.
fM
April 18, 2008 4:14 PM
I can't say that I felt it. I was "out". I will say that my cat did try to wake me up about that time so I think he felt it. Others in the area reported feeling their bed rock, plates rattle, etc. I had some students who felt it although most didn't. It certainly wasn't strong here. The local media was reporting a lot of folks feeling it though.
April 27, 2008 8:53 AM
Both my aunt and I slept right through it but several of her neighbors in Buchanan, MI were awakened by it. We had a small quake years and years ago here. I never want to feel a big one.
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