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May 5, 2008 | 7:41 AM PST
Tag: Earthquake 041808

Did anyone else feel the earthquake that happened along the New Madrid fault here in the Midwest on Friday, April 18th?

I was shaken awake and woke up to feel my bed moving and I could hear closet doors rattling and it felt like the whole house was moving. It had been very windy the day before but I was downstairs where the brick and cement foundations of our house are so I figured if the winds were strong enough to move the whole house like that it would be a lot noisier and most likely the top of the house would be gone. This was just a quiet mild shaking so I figured it had to be an earthquake. My husband slept through it and we both forgot about it after I told him, got busy and didn't even watch the news that day.

A few days ago I was talking to my son online and he asked me if I'd felt it and directed me online to info on the New Madrid fault - so there I had confirmation that I wasn't imagining things. Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to pose the question on here and see how widespread the experience was.

I guess there have been some doozies from the New Madrid fault in the past. One quake occurring here in the Midwest actually rang church bells in Boston!

They say this one measured 5.2 around West Salem IL. epicenter. I felt it in NW Indiana. I am about an hour an a half between Chicago and Indianapolis [both ways]. Where did you feel it?

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Aurora	May 5, 2008 \| 8:20 AM PST I don't live near there so didn't feel it. Many of the people on another forum felt it too. That would've been unnerving!
blueyedkitty04	May 5, 2008 \| 11:22 AM PST Wow, how scary. I don't live near there either. I have been in really small earthquake in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon) while I was in a class (when I was in high school). I felt the floor "roll" under my desk and feet. Only 2 or 3 other people felt it in the class and the others thought we were crazy. It was kind of scary because there is no controlling it or figuring out what is going on. I will have to ask my Mom to see if my Grandparents felt it at all. They are in Crystal Lake Ill. ~M~
txrose	May 5, 2008 \| 2:41 PM PST My son felt the one close to him he lives in Evansville IN. You can check out all earthquake activity at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/index.php When that earthquake happened I didn't feel it I'm in Tx but I woke up at that time and was scared too death and put the police # in my phone in case I needed it as I didn't know until later the earthquake is what made me worry..mother's intuition? Last edited by txrose on May 5th at 8:23 PM.
rockybane	May 5, 2008 \| 8:04 PM PST I live in sw MO and I didn't feel it, though some around here reported feeling it. It happened around 4 in the morning, and it would have had to been a lot bigger to wake me up. I have slept through thunderstorms and near tornados and not known anything about them until somebody else mentioned them.
Sherrieflower	May 8, 2008 \| 7:54 AM PST I was at my cousin's house near Los Angeles and felt one of the aftershocks from the 1971/'73 quake. I was sleeping on the couch and woke up to see the walls moving. Having never experienced anything serious enough to be dangerous - I just thought it was kind of "cool". I'm sure self-preservation would kick in the moment things start looking serious, but I have been blessed to know divine protection and for that I am grateful. We were house hunting in Southern MO in 2003 when 80 tornadoes hit the area. It was all around us and when we got to our hotel we could see debris flying in the air but we were kept safe. Awesome.

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