earthquake!!

[mickeym]

We had an earthquake this morning! They're saying preliminary data says it was 5.4 magnitude, and the epicenter was up in Illinois somewhere. I actually felt it--though down in Etown it felt just like a big gust of wind rattling the house a bit. That's what I thought it was, and then dismissed it in the rush to get ready for work. When I got in the car and had the news on, and they said "earthquake!" I was all !!!!!

I always forget this, but I do live on a fault line. It's just not a real active fault line -- the last quake/tremor, I guess, was in 1980, with the epicenter in the same approximate area. Before that, it was 1906--so not real often.

I'm still kind of 'whoa', here. Because--earthquake!

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[gweneiriol.livejournal.com]

I didn't even feel it! Mom did, and she tried to wake me up, but I was al "zzzzz" Glad to know you and Matthew are doing good though!

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Ah, we're fine. It was felt more strongly up here in Louisville, I think, though apparently they felt it down in Georgia, as well. Weird way to start the day, for sure!

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Dude! I hadn't even checked the news yet! Good to know it wasn't mt house.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Hee! Nope :)

[pensnest]

It's so weird to have an earthquake when you live somewhere where 'earthquakes don't happen'. We've had two here in the UK in the last handful of years, and it's Really Weird.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Really weird, yes! I mean, I've known for a long time that we live on/along a faultline (the New Madrid), but it's like. Academic. The last time anything happened was 1980, which was quite a while ago.

[rejeneration.livejournal.com]

HOLY CRAP, HONEY!! I was up at like... ugh.. 5? Earlier actually, but I swear to GOD I felt the ground shake. It's amazing because I thought, "OMG, this is an Earthquake" but the train was riding by at the same time and I was like "Don't be stupid."

HOLY FUCK!

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

At least a train would've made sense. I just thought "huh. Strong wind gust" -- which was kind of dumb, considering it wasn't windy this morning *g* 'Earthquake' never even crossed my mind, to be honest.

[wendy.livejournal.com]

EEK! So scary!

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

It might've been scary if it'd felt stronger, or gone on longer; as it is, I'm just kind of...excited, I guess. I know, call me weird *G* It's really depressing that our piece-of-shit building didn't crumble to the ground. ;) Though my coworkers assure me that even if it had? We've been provided shovels to dig out way out while new desks were found for us *g*

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

Meep!!!

There's actually a book out (called 5.0 I think?) about what would happen if the fault you're on went. Don't read it. ;-)

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I don't plan to read it *g* Ignorance is, at time, bliss ;)

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, ignorance is definitely bliss. *hugs you*

[cormallen.livejournal.com]

Dude, wow. You know, I read the first post on my f-list to mention the earthquake, and said, "hmm, I could have sworn this person doesn't live on the West Coast". An Illinois earthquake, that's a bit omgwtf, isn't it?
I'm glad you guys didn't really feel it much more than "gust of wind", though!
*hugs*

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Louisville felt it more strongly than we did, I think. My coworkers all talked about furniture moving and stuff like that, and I didn't feel any of that at all.

We do actually live on/along the New Madrid faultline, though, which is kind of cool. So long as we don't have too many earthquakes *g*

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

Glad it was only a tremble. I just had no idea at all you had earthquakes in that part of the world. *blinks*

*hugs you*

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

New Madrid faultline, right here! :) It was definitely an interesting way to start the day *g*

[raise-a-jar.livejournal.com]

Once I figured out I wasn't hallucinating from sleep deprivation and that it wasn't just the mister twitching in his sleep (that would've been one hell of a twitch! lol) my first thought was, "Wow...earthquake...cool!"

And then I crashed right back into sleep :D

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

My parents live up in Northern Indiana, and my mother was lying awake and felt it. So weird.

[azephirin.livejournal.com]

OMG! I'm glad it wasn't anything worse than a big gust of wind, but still—earthquake! (!!!!!!!!!!!!)

[meinnim.livejournal.com]

When I heard about the earthquake, I thought it was somewhere in Calif and I slept right through it.

Whew, that is a relatively big quake so I'm glad no one hurt and there's not a lot of damage.