Nothing like being woken up by an Earthquake
 

Woke up at 5:35 to the wonderful shaking of windows and lights. Knocked a cup off of the table next to me.

Peliminary reports are pointing to a 5.4 magnitude earthquake about 41 miles northwest of Evansville.

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Magnitude 5.4 (Preliminary magnitude — subject to revision)
Date-Time Friday, April 18, 2008 at 09:36:57 UTC
Friday, April 18, 2008 at 04:36:57 AM at epicenter

Location 38.501°N, 87.898°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region ILLINOIS
Distances 10 km (6 miles) ESE (103°) from West Salem, IL
10 km (6 miles) NE (55°) from Bone Gap, IL
13 km (8 miles) N (4°) from Bellmont, IL
39 km (24 miles) WSW (239°) from Vincennes, IN
66 km (41 miles) NNW (333°) from Evansville, IN
204 km (127 miles) E (93°) from St. Louis, MO

Location Uncertainty Error estimate not available
Parameters NST=021, Nph=021, Dmin=263.2 km, Rmss=1.07 sec, Gp=119°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=1
Source West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center/NOAA/NWS

Event ID at00851141

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

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It takes allot to wake me up, and this woke me up. I don't ever want to go through one again.

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We're over here real close to it in Olney. Took me a long time to figure out what was going on. My mom is St Louis and it was pretty strong there. Will have to find out if my girlfriend and her family in Iowa felt it. We felt a slight aftershock shortly after the quake by about 5 minutes or so.

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I'm in Marion, In, about 230 miles Northeast of the epicenter and it shook the building here. I pray that everyone is all right.

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Columbus here and it woke me up. By the time I got my senses about me it was basically over. I thought I felt an aftershock too.... but I had taken sleep medication last night so i didn't know if I was still loopy from it.

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It got my attention here in Anderson. Felt both the tremor as well as th aftershock. Let's hope everyone is fine and maybe only slight property damage.

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Ironically, i've been reading a book about David Crockett and he was talking about "the shakes," which followed the New Madrid,Mo., Earthquake of about 1811 and 1812. The original quake was so strong the Mississippi River ran backwards for a while and rang chuch bells in Philadephia. Crockett settled in a region of western Tennessee that was radically reshaped by the eartquake and tremors, and happened to be great for hunting bears.

When I was a reporter at the Princeton, Ind., Daily Clarion 25 years ago, I did reports about a major event along the New Madrid fault lines being overdue.

Jim Morrison

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I received a text message from my daughter in Evansville, she says all is well there. As for Trent I am fairly sure he slept through it!

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HOLY :censor: Not what i need to hear as we are about 1 hour away from heading to Gas City.

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I was at work at the Sheriff's Dept. and it shook our building pretty violently. I feilded probably 75-100 911 calls immediately afterwards. I can tell you that no injuries or damage has been reported in Vermillion county.

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It woke me up here in Louisville, quite a way to start the day!:thumbsdown:

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I wonder if I felt the aftershock because I don't remember anything after the first shake (or I could just not felt the after shock and felt the first one). I am pretty sound sleeper and this woke me up.

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Felt it here in Brazil. Probably a reason to raise fuel prices.

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WOW!!!!!!! My son said it woke him up when this happened.I must be a pretty sound sleeper I never felt a thing.

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The first shake I felt was actually smaller then the second one. Each of them seemed to only last a second or so in Seymour. Definitely got my attention though while getting ready for work.

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I thought my cat had gotten under the bed and finally gone bonkers!!! I did not like that one single bit!!! Luckily my 5 year old slept through it!!! My husband is headed to Gas City tonight so hopefully there won't be anymore shakin' going on!!!

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I felt it here in Brookville. I am about 20 miles west of Dayton, Ohio. Lasted about 10 seconds or so.

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I never felt a thing here.

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I live about 15 miles from the epicenter....it's been a long time since we had one this big! Last one was in 02, but this one lasted much longer - approx 30-45 secs for me.....shook pics off the wall and they are reporting some sinkholes forming already in the E'ville area. We had at least two more aftershocks that I could feel after that. I was sleeping really good too, bummer that it woke me up but glad there's no real damage!

Sacha

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Springfield IL. here, I have hardwood floors in my bedroom, and the bed slid all the way to the other end of the room. I just held on for the ride.

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sorry guys no earthquake just started our sprint car this morning a little early.:applaud:

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Jim Mills was at Red Hill and farted!!!
:applaud:

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I'm at 48 mile marker of I70 East and we felt two seperate tremors. Watching the Dayton, Ohio news when what I assume to be the aftershock wiggled a little. Hope all is well with my Hoosier and Illini friends. Dave

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It woke me up here in South St. Louis metro...

house was shaking, and I could hear cabinets rattling throughout the house. weird feeling

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It was the first time I was in bed with my wife and she said that she felt the earth move.:O:

I was taking a shower at about 5:35 A.M. here in Cincy. When I got out, my wife said, did you feel that earthquake? I felt nothing.

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This is so off topic, It's rediculous! Unless theres a trench down the straight at Haubstadt, I don't wanna hear this stuff!

:)

Sorry Chris, Never ripped ya before :) and just kidding. Woke me up in Kings Island Ohio!

Chuck

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Is Shortbus ok? I heard he fell and started the whole damn thing!

Luv ya Bill!

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Illinois not the only place to have an earthquake - From the Indy Star:

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Well this is just my luck. I had just put a quarter in the bed and then this happens?

Can I get my money back? I felt like Chevy Chase in that vacation movie.

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I remember back in grade school (1990ish) we had earthquake drills in Peoria, IL because people thought a quake was so likely. Being in a class room above a gymnasium hiding under a desk with a book over my head was their idea of being "safe" during one.

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I'm in muncie and I know I felt it up here, now weather or not it was someone starting a sprint car or what I just don't want to go through it again! Scared the crap out of me

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yea it was scary this morning i live about 25 min from where the center was

tristate speedway is about 25 min from the center too

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I was awakened by the awesome power of nature, too. The whole house was shaking. I thought it I was just having a nightmare. But, when one of my dogs was running around the yard, with her "Hey. What the hell's going on" bark, reality set in. So, I turned on the TV and both local stations were all over it. At a revised 5.2, they say this was the second most powerful earthquake ever felt in this part of Indiana. Right after the 5.3 one, in 1968. It's not California or Southeast Asia, but definitely enough to give you some empathy for what the have to go through.

Hopefully, the next rumbling/shaking I feel is from multiple 800 H.P., 410 cu. in. motors screaming across my field of vision, in a place further away from the epicenter of this thing.

Jerry

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Kokomo is falling apart! Two nights ago we had a sonic boomb by a couple of F-16's playing lazer tag. That turned into a meteorite, UFO, Plane Crash..... This morning we have an earthquake? I missed it. I slept through it...my dog is fired he slept through both "Events". I highly recommend a Tempur Pedic Mattress because I slept through the quake.

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Uh-oh. Aftershock.

Jerry

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Yep, felt it here too, Jerry!

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Just felt an aftershock here in Brownsburg at 11:16am.

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Another aftershock here in Indy at 11:15!:eek:

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Right now in EVSC Evansville Vandenburg County School system... kids are under desks for after shocks we've had.. kinda crazy.. and no Dan I didnt sleep through it... thought I was shmammered and could stand up straight.. turns out not this time..haha. But seriously.. not cool. Not a big fan of the whole shaking thing...felt like a young pup tryin to walk in a moving truck bed... I am sure Shortbus survived.. he is a rock!