Small earthquake in our area.

[Kani]

I was drinking my usual morning cup of coffee around 5:36 this morning when the earth began to shake. Woow! A little different. I knew what it was when it started it was stronger than the ones we have had before. They say the center was in Salem, IL.

This is not something we usually feel in our area.

Anyone else feel the earth shake this morning?

Have a good day.

Kani

[Rayban]

I just saw that in the morning news....it was 325 miles from me, so I slept right through it.

[K-Man]

Earthquakes are an interesting beast. I've been through a number of them. The strongest was an 8.2 that lasted for over a minute. What a ride that was. Cured me from ever wanting to go through one again, however slight.

[David]

It woke us up here in Cincinnati too.

David Theobald

[CitizenKate]

Yes, they do happen in the midwest, although it's not very common. We had one in Wichita, KS when I lived there, a very small one, though, just enough to make things sitting on shelves rattle. And Manhattan, where I live now, is sitting on a fault line and is rated as a medium earthquake risk by the Geological Survey.

Kate

[Luke Hatley]

did not feel it here ......i am in the New Madris Fault zone.......... but it got me thinking

what is the rest of it.??? ''I FELT THE EARTH MOVE UNDER MY FEET''...............

[hiloboy]

there pretty common here. they say we get a couple hundred a day on a good day.. most we don't feel but every onces in a will we get a rocker that lets us know that we are living here because the volcano lets us..i lost part of my garage on the last big one we had...look for the after shocks!!there alot of fun to.

[jammon]

My wife woke me up just in time for it to have stopped : ) I did feel the aftershock around 10:15 STL time.

[yaklady]

The only earth quakes I ever experienced was when I was a kid. They used to pump toxic waste a mile down under ground at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. The ground must not have liked that, as it resisted and complained with a huge "burp". They stopped doing that and I haven't felt one since.

[Johanna]

Wade (my husband) was up and about, getting ready for work this morning, when our Toby started dancing and prancing like he wanted to go outside. Toby doesn't ordinarily get up with Wade, he gets up with me and the kids later on. Wade opened the back door for him, and Toby stopped, spun around, and went behind the couch. Wade tried to coax him out, but he wouldn't budge. Wade finished his coffee and headed out the door at 6 am, and he said he never felt any shaking or heard anything unusual. At work today people were talking about pictures on the walls being crooked, and things falling down from shelves. Only a few said they woke up and felt it. Our village is right smack dab on the Anna-Champaign fault, the busiest seismic area in Ohio, but the only earthquakes I've ever felt were in Charleston, South Carolina, 25 years ago in my wilder days. I was in a 7-Eleven late one night, and the floor rippled for what seemed like quite awhile and all the shelves shook. I took that unsteadiness as a sign that I'd done enough partying for the night, and went home to bed.

Johanna