What were you doing during the earthquake that rocked the midwest...?

Question

or did you even know that it was going on?

Answer 1

I was sleeping, but it woke me up since my bed was shaking.

Answer 2

Sleeping. It woke me up! The bed was shaking, the windows rattling, the dishes rattling. It was awful, and it felt like forever! I went to grab my baby boy (he sleeps with us) and head to the bathroom, but my husband said for us three to just stay in bed because we were in the safets location of the house (We have one story, and this house is very old, and our bedroom was the only room re-inforced from underneath i guess, plus nothing on the walls) my husband just held us until it was over. Very scary, but I didn't feel the after shocks. I hope it doesn't happen again. Thank God no one was hurt. We live in Ky, we felt it around 4:30 A.M. I believe. I was really scared, I knew it was an earth quake, Only because I remember reading the night before about some earth quake prediction in Cali, so that was my first assumption. My parents who live 20 min. from me thought it was a tornado (We get those a lot) and their house shakes during strong windy storms as well. They ran to the basement until they realized it completely stopped. They felt the after shocks.

Answer 3

...Sleeping in my warm bed near Atlanta, GA, when the quake woke me up!  Yes, we felt it nearly 400 miles away from the epicenter in Illinois.  The windows were rattling and my bed was shaking!

Answer 4

Didnt know that it happend untill my buddy called me. I was on the computer and never felt a thing.

Answer 5

sleeping....3 miles from where it originated in Southern Illinois.  Then when a different one shook at at 10:15 I was watching the news on the couch talking on the phone with a relative.  i said, "oh i feel it again"  then by the time it was over, she said they were jsut now feeling it.  she lives on the other side of town.  

at about 10:17pm here, we felt another pretty good tremor.  i brace myself now everytime the washer goes into spin cycle.  hehehe

Answer 6

I was sleeping, then heard about it on the news :D