Did anyone else feel that earthquake in Illinois?

Question

Just got woken up

Answer 1

i live off of cole street in east peoria, was reading and thought wtf!!!! lol, a little rock and roll to start my day.

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Answer 2

I felt it in Quincy.    At first I thought my dog was scratching while lying at the foot of the bed but the news confirmed the real answer.    The nature of the movement was different from the one I felt out west.

Answer 3

We live in Effingham and we felt it!  Everything in the house was shaking and you could hear the rumbling outside.  Husband and I jumped out of bed and stood there looking at each other :)  We just had another big jolt about 45 min ago (10:15).  I've talked to my husband and his office has 20 cracked windows because one of the walls shifted!  That is over in Altamont.

Answer 4

Wow sorry no i didn't I'm in the UK how exciting but i hope no ones hurt. We had one here this years we don't get them very often.

Answer 5

Yeah, we felt it in Louisville too.

Answer 6

I am in Peoria, IL...It woke my whole family...knocked a lamp off the dresser...scared the heck out of us!!!

Just felt another little shake not near as strong as the first one but still kind of scary.

Answer 7

I live in southern IN and I felt it. But I think what woke me up was my parrot flying out of her cage and screaming. It seemed like it lasted for ever.

Answer 8

Yup, woke up and was all what the????

Kids slept through it, but me and the hubby both shot up in bed.

Answer 9

I live in Huntington, Indiana and awoke this morning because the roof was making some sort of banging noise then the whole house was shaking badley! I had no idea what was going on!

Answer 10

I live in Morton, IL, and that Earthquake was shaking my house. Scarred the c**p out of me.

Answer 11

I was driving to work in Mason, OH and I saw the lights flicker around Ronald Regan Hwy. My husband was at home in Ft. Thomas, KY and he said he felt it and the lights flickered. He was watching the news when it happened. He called right after. It only lasted about 10 seconds or so here. Pretty crazy though. My kids slept through it.

Answer 12

Woke me up, sucks cuz I had to go to school in the morning. And oh, by the way I live in Dayton, OHIO. I did not, however, feel the aftershock.

Answer 13

yes i did fell it very well and i live in Springfiled, Illinois. It was a 5.4....it was at the very bottom of Illinois but to me it felt like it was in my backyard!!

Answer 14

I felt it in Carbondale, IL. Funny thing is, I dreamed I was on a train until I realized that my house was really shaking. I wasn't scared at all... I just thought that it was very interesting ;)

Answer 15

Dude I totally felt that quake I was sleeping on my back and my bed started shaking and it could feel my whole house tremoring it was freeky as all h**l.

Answer 16

Yes!! you're not crazy! I woke up at 4.15 A.M and went on my laptop.  My whole condo started shacking and first I thought I was dreaming but soon I realized that I wasn't.  I ran to my bedroom to wake my wife up to tell her and she said you must be dreaming go back to sleep, until we heard news in the morning that it was true actually Illinois had an earthquake for a couple of seconds at 5.2 scale.  Thank God we're safe.

Answer 17

Yup, and I sleep like a log.  Good 30 seconds worth of shaking, opened up a crack in my basement.  Live in Carbondale, IL and I am a geology student, so my phone's been ringing off the hook.

Answer 18

I felt here in Southern Illinois around 10 am this morning.

Answer 19

I live in Kentucky and we felt it! It woke me up out of bed everything was shaking! It was pretty scary.

Answer 20

This quake hit National news. It was plastered all over the TV news here in Calif. as well as the Internet. This quake location borders the much more seismically active New Madrid seismic zone known as the Ozark Dome Region. I believe the USGS officially is calling it a 5.2 which for Calif. standards is your basic moderate quake. The quake was fairly shallow around 7 miles deep which will give a good jolt anywhere near the epicenter. Ironically, at 5:12AM Calif. time/3:12AM Illinois time this morning people in San Francisco were commemorating the 102 year old San Francisco quake which destroyed most of the city. I was watching it on the news. We get 5.2 quakes fairly often. I've been in 2 quakes measuring 7.0 or greater and many quakes in the 5.0-6.0 zone. Some can be scary depending on your location. I hope for your case, this is not a precursor to a much larger quake. The USGS just announced last week that there is a 97.7% probability of a quake 6.7 or larger within the next 30 years right in my area. That sounds freaky!

Answer 21

Yes at 4:40 am and then at 10:10 am

Answer 22

I'm 60 miles SE of Nashville TN and felt it.  It shook the house and rattled the shelves.

Answer 23

IM IN ARNOLD MISSOURI (20 MINUTES FROM ST. LOUIS) AND I FELT IT! IT FELT LIKE THE BED WAS SWAYING. SOMETHING FELL IN THE HOUSE, NOT SURE WHAT. IT WAS PRETTY SCARY.

Answer 24

sorry didnt feel a thing here in Oz

sorry

Answer 25

I'm in Taylorville, IL. I felt it, but it didn't do a thing to anything around here.

Answer 26

Yes my 10yr old son and i got woke up early this morning from it.I was asleep on the couch and woke up to my house and myself shaking,it felt like a wave kind of shake...very weird,my son come running into the living room scared.My first thought was earthquake....then i thought i was just loosing my mind...i have never felt an earthquake before and it's not like they happen all the time around here,i then got a phone call from a friend who also got woke up from it....thats when i realized that it was an earthquake.My 2 younger sons and my boyfriend slept through it all.I live in centralia,IL.

Answer 27

Here in Effingham, Illinois, I was still up and around. It started about 4:35 a.m. (EDIT: Our clock is slow) and kept up the tremors for several minutes! It's 5:15, and my heart is still pounding! I wish I didn't know about the New Madrid Fault because that's scary territory.

I've been sitting here wondering if anyone else noticed. I think my mom slept through it, which isn't surprising.

It definitely frightened me! I wasn't sure what was happening~an explosion of some kind somewhere perhaps. Also, we're close to the county airport, and there's always a chance for a crash. (Knock on wood!!!) We don't have quakes often enough to remember what they feel like, so it took me a bit to place the sensations. It's very disorienting, isn't it?

EDIT: Thanks for the link to the form! I just finished filling it out and then went to the map page. I estimated it as moderate (scarily high really!), and the map lists us in the moderate area! They place the epicenter just outside of Olney, Illinois, which isn't all that far to the south of us.

Before I saw this question, I was wondering if there was anyone or anyplace to phone to report a tremor. Thanks to the link, I did it!

C'mon, everybody! Fill out the questionnaire. It's not difficult at all, and you don't have to give personal information. I just gave our street, not the exact address, along with the cross street. Wow! It must have been quite a quake!

Answer 28

Please fill out the shake report for the quake at http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/STORE/...  

This is a page on the U.S.G.S. web site; they compile as much data as they can on every quake in the U.S. and many around the world as well.  Their main page is http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

Answer 29

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

we felt it too!!!

Answer 30

I live in Peoria, and it just woke me up!

Answer 31

Yeh i felt it around 4:41 on my clock, and i live in Cape Girardeau, MO, woke me up.  My dad says he called his mother who lived in Du Quoin, IL.  She felt it at the same time as well.