Fellow Illinoisans-did you feel the earthquake last night?

Question

OMG! It happened around 4:30 am. My bed shook! I wonder if anyone else had a different experience. I still can't get over the fact that an earthquake shook the midwest!

Answer 1

My family awoke to the house creaking and the dogs barking.  I thought it was a tornado but after looking outside and seeing a calm sky, it finally dawned on me that we were experiencing an earthquake.  The sound was if a train was going by our house.  It was incredible.  However, I'm perfectly fine with never having another one again.  lol

Answer 2

are you talking about weather or are you saying you had a o****m 4:30 am this morning?

Answer 3

My mother felt it in her room in Northwest Indiana.

I was sleeping, since I was on medication from allergy pills and was knocked out, but as soon as I woke up, I heard birds chirping nonstop. I was scared; I didn't know what was going on.

You don't see earthquakes take place in the Midwest that often.

Answer 4

THERE I WAS WIDE AWAKE PLAYING A GAME ON MY

COMPUTER. PROBABLY ABOUT 2 OR 3 MIN BEFORE THE QUAKE  I HEARD THE COYOTES, THAT ISNT SO UNUSUAL. HOWEVER, THIS MORNING THEY WERE REALLY RAISING h**l, I MEAN THEY WERE REALLY LOUD, AND SIMBA (ORANGE CAT) HE SEEMED TO WANT MORE ATTENTION THAN USUAL. THEN IT HIT.EVERYTHING WAS SHAKING LIKE h**l. AT FIRST I THOUGHT THE TREE HAD FALLEN BUT THEN I THOUGHT ''TREES JUST HIT SOMETHING ONCE'. SO i GOT THE h**l OUT BECAUSE I SERIOUSLY THOUGHT THE ROOF WAS CAVING IN. SO I AM OUTSIDE WONDERING WTF. THE BRAIN DOESNT REGISTER STUFF LIKE THIS, AT LEAST NOT RIGHT AWAY. SO AFTER I WAS CONVINCED IT WAS NOT A TREE, TORNADO, OR AL QUEDA MY FIRST ADRENALINE FUELED REACTION-CALL THE POLICE! WHILE IT WAS RINGING I THOUGHT WHAT DO I SAY? "HI,I GOT AN EARTHQUAKE OUT HERE ON WEST MAIN STREET, COULD YA SEND SOMEONE?''

SO WHEN THEY ANSWERED I SAID REAL QUICKLY "YEAH EARTHQUAKE 4:38 BYE"

I FELT LIKE AN IDIOT CALLING THEM SO I THOUGHT WHO CAN I WAKE UP?  WHO INDEED?  OF COURSE! CALL MY GF. SHE WAS UP.THE QUAKE SAW TO THAT.



I LIVE PRETTY CLOSE TO WEST SALEM . AND THIS WAS HER FIRST, MY SECOND. I REMEMBER A TREMOR IN INDIANA WHEN I WAS A LAD. i LIVED IN CALIFORNIA FOR NEARLY 4 YEARS AND I NEVER FELT ONE TREMOR.



I THINK I CAN SAFELY SPEAK FOR MOST FOLKS WHEN I SAY THE EARTHQUAKE AND THE SUBSEQUENT AFTER SHOCKS ARE JUST A BIT CREEPY. IT WAS VERY UNSETTLING. IN A WORD-IT SUCKED. THAT IS THE MOST EERY,CREEPY SENSATION. I MEAN YOU LOOK AT YOUR STUFF SHAKING AND YOU THINK

'HMMM,THAT'S NOT RIGHT.''