Anyone in southern Illinois?

Just a quick not to see if anyone was in the Illinois earthquake area this morning... we are a couple hundred miles away, but we felt it enough to be woken up. I was looking out my back window for a tornado... I've never experienced earthquake tremors before! How scary for anyone living close to the fault line!

Hope everyone's okay!

Helen

 

I live in southern KY and it woke me up. I thought at first it was a tornado until I got my senses together. Our house shook for about 20 seconds. It scared me to death!

 

I have lived in Chicago all my life, and I never thought I would be able to experience an earthquake because they just don't happen much by me. Well, this past weekend (Thurs - Sun) I was at a Juice Plus+ convention in Phoenix, and completely missed the entire thing! This is the first time I have gotten away on my own - with friends but not family - in a very long time, and I missed it. Once we heard about it at the conference, we were all calling home to find out what happened - I thought someone was joking with me when she told me. LOL.

All that said, my DH was home and said he didn't notice it at all. He is a heavy sleeper though, so it wouldn't surprise me if he did sleep through it. My parents, who don't live far away said they didn't feel anything either.

 

Hi! I am in southern Illinois. We live about 40 minutes from the epicenter from Friday's earthquake & my aunt & uncle live about 5 miles from the epicenter. It was crazy! At first I thought it was the furnace, but then I thought..."it's not on.", then dh was thinking tornado, but, of course, nothing was going on outside. Everything was shaking! There was a loud rumbling noise too that was like a freight train. Anyway, I said "babies!" & got the twins & held them under a doorway & dh had our older dd in another room. We didn't really have any damage, but my aunt & uncle had lots of pictures fall off walls & stuff fell off shelves, etc. Very scary. My uncle's school also had the library ceiling collapse. We were also doing a teacher's institute where I work on Friday at 10:30 or so & an aftershock (around 4.5) hit us. Very scary! I was glad we didn't have students that day. Would have been crazy! The news is saying we had another aftershock last night a little after midnight. It didn't wake us up this time though. I just hope these aren't "preshocks" to a bigger quake, kwim? Just not used to this here. We had a quake when I was about 10 here, but that's the only other one I remember. Thanks for asking about us though!

 

I live by peoria and did not feel anything..

 

I'm in IL, right outside of St. Louis. It woke us up. Felt like someone had put a quarter in our bed to turn it on. We didn't have anything fall off the walls or anything. DH said the TV in our room rocked a little though. I didn't feel any of the aftershocks.

 

We're located right about the same place Marcy874 is, and it was about the same. Except we did feel the first aftershock at 10:15. It was wild, cause I woke up in bed andturned to ask DH if he felt that. Only to find the bed occupied by Reagan instead. LOL I finally found DH in the living room also.

It didn't knowck anything down, but it goofed up most of the pictures on the walls. I still need to go back and level them all.