If you live in Illinois, Indiana or Kentucky did you feel the earthquake this morning?

Question

It woke me up! It measured 5.4 on the Richter scale. Was there any damage where you are?

Answer 1

Enough to wake me from a dead sleep here in St. Louis, thinking someone was shaking the bed!  No damage, though.

Answer 2

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

we felt it too!!!

Answer 3

omg,yes!like at 5:42am i was so scared i really didn't know was going on, i was a sleep and feel that the bed was shaking and like a strange noise like the whole apartment was shaking, it was like 10 or 15 sec, but feel much longer!, as soon as that end i turn on the TV and like 3 minutes later, they start talking about the earthquake, i put some jeans, shoes and prepare a back pack with important items just in case.

I'm from California, and used to this kind of stuff but i didn't know that earthquakes happen in Indiana too! i have live here for like 4 years now.

No damage here just c**p in my pants haha XD

Answer 4

I live in Indiana and I felt it. Well....sort of. Mostly I heard it (house creaking and making noises). My husband got up to check things out then it was over. We didn't even know it was an earthquake until we saw it on the news. This was my first earthquake experience. And I am sooo thankful it wasn't a bad experience.

Answer 5

Cracked basement in Murphysboro, IL.  other than that, just 3 hours of sleep I lost out on.

Answer 6

I just went to wake my husband up and he slept through it (I didn't even know what it was). It's still dark so I haven't gone outside yet. That was my first earthquake!!!

Answer 7

indianapolis in east side here.....no damage but i thought a tornado touched down or something.  my daughter thought someone was running threw the home.  i was laying on the couch and felt the earth move......it was like a rolling ripple thing that was loud

Answer 8

I live in Henderson,KY. Nothing big here just some stuff of the walls.Princeton,Ky had a bridge that could be damaged.Louisville,Ky had some of a building fall but I think it was older.It was scary and lasted longer than anything I have heard of.thaen we had a aftershock at 10:15 it was still pretty big for an aftershock

Answer 9

If you felt it, please fill out the report for the U.S.G.S - they do lots of good work with earthquakes.  Their main US page is

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/rece...

The page for the report for this quake is http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/STORE/...

Answer 10

yeah! here in chicago.

i didn't get any damage to my house but i heard on the news that some lady reported two cracks in her wall.

it scared the c**p out of me. i never experienced anything like that

Answer 11

I felt it up here in michigan. they said something about it on the news too. i felt it around 5:40 am.

Answer 12

Yes!  I'd just washed my hands when the windows started clanking and the house started shaking.  I woke up my husband and said "I really think we're having an earthquake!"  He said look at the glass of water on the nightstand then rolled over.  :)

Glad to see on the news and here that I wasn't just imagining it!

Answer 13

your on u.k. answers.

Answer 14

we felt it in Owensboro Ky. No damage but it rattled the house. Everyone should register their location on that site it is quick and easy. I AMA very sound sleeper an it woke me up!

Answer 15

Yeah, I live in meade county KY and we felt a real good shaker here. No damage, but I hear some bricks fell off a 3 story building in Louisville. Another reported a ceiling fan falling. Pretty wild for this area!

Answer 16

I live in Ohio, it woke me up. It just felt like a big truck driving by.

Answer 17

I felt it in Carmel / Westfield Indiana!  Thats actually how I woke up.  The extra half hour asleep would have been nice.  Windows rattled, bed shook, doors and drawers shook a little.  It lasted about 20 seconds or so I think or at least my best guess at time when being woke up.

Answer 18

I had just got out of the shower, and getting dressed when the house started shaking. I though it was a tornado at first.

Answer 19

It sems like only southern illinois felt it. I live up north, closer to the city, and i didn't feel it at all. Maybe i did, but we have trains go by all the time, and they shake the house too.

Answer 20

Yes, south of Louisville.  There was damage to an old building in downtown Louisville,

Answer 21

No damage, but I felt it!  I am in Indiana and was sitting at my desk when it happened. My chair was moving. I am in a store and as I looked out my office door I could see a sign "swaying".

Hope that everyone is OK!

:-)

Answer 22

I live in Brownsville, Ky and about 4:30 this morning I  woke up to the bed shaking a little. I thought I'd been dreaming it until after getting the kids up for school and my father in law said he felt it too.

Answer 23

I felt that too......and no damage besides all my drawers and my closet doors opening

Answer 24

We live in Fort Wayne, Indiana and my husband and I felt it here.  Our son was staying at our parents this weekend and they live in Montpelier, Ohio which is the very northwest corner of Ohio and they had felt it too.  Very weird.  It woke us up right out of our sleep.  It was our first Earthquake.

Answer 25

We live in Madison, Indiana about 50 miles northeast of Louisville, ky.  I was making our morning coffee, while at the coffee pot I felt the Fridge giggling, I told my husband I thought we were having an earthquake, my clock showed 5:40am, it lasted at least 30 seconds.  While on his way to work he heard on the radio that there was infact an earthquake in Illinois.  

George

Quilter

Answer 26

I felt it really well near Peoria,il

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/rece...

Answer 27

I'm in Indiana, the experience was pretty cool for us northerners.

Other than a picture and vase falling off a very skinny shelf, no damage around here. But I did lose three hours of sleep ;-)

Answer 28

The epicenter was outside of a city to the south of us: Olney, Illinois. At two other questions, I've seen posts from Kentucky, Missouri and Michigan! This thing was pretty big it seems, and it lasted quite awhile. I know for certain that it was nearly five minutes before the tremors stopped.

I already filled out a report at that site. It doesn't take long, and you don't have to give too much personal information. It accepted my street and the nearest cross street, without asking for exact address. You don't even have to leave your name. After I finished the report, I clicked on a link to the map showing how widespread this is turning out to be. I gauged it exactly as "moderate"; I feared that I exaggerated it, but I was on-target with my estimation.

That was the strongest, longest quake I've ever experienced. I'm 57 and haven't been through very many of these things, but it definitely was the worst~not something we want so close to the New Madrid Fault.