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Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: Zachary The First on April 18, 2008, 08:33:01 AM
Was woken up at 5:30 today by an earthquake (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxPvXBa_kwldln7jw_kNT0EsoE1QD904786O0)!  Rare in the midwest!

Fellow midwesterners, did you feel it, or sleep right through it?

Jeff, it should have been a little stronger in your neck of the woods.

I have the worst luck trying to sleep in.
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: James J Skach on April 18, 2008, 10:31:57 AM
Quote from: Zachary The FirstWas woken up at 5:30 today by an earthquake (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxPvXBa_kwldln7jw_kNT0EsoE1QD904786O0)!  Rare in the midwest!

Fellow midwesterners, did you feel it, or sleep right through it?

Jeff, it should have been a little stronger in your neck of the woods.

I have the worst luck trying to sleep in.
Slept through it, though a neighbor called this morning and said she had felt it...

The news claimed folks as far as MI felt it - SP? Anything?
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: Mcrow on April 18, 2008, 10:37:23 AM
Nothing happened up here in the upper midwest.
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: HinterWelt on April 18, 2008, 10:48:06 AM
Quote from: Zachary The FirstWas woken up at 5:30 today by an earthquake (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxPvXBa_kwldln7jw_kNT0EsoE1QD904786O0)!  Rare in the midwest!

Fellow midwesterners, did you feel it, or sleep right through it?

Jeff, it should have been a little stronger in your neck of the woods.

I have the worst luck trying to sleep in.
So that's what that was! O.k. I have to say, not really scary so much as "Is there a raccoon in the kitchen? mrhl mmble".

Well, now I know, and knowing is half the battle.

Bill
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: Serious Paul on April 18, 2008, 11:10:05 AM
If I am awakened it's usually the drunken frat kids across the street. But last night I slept soundly.
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: Dr Rotwang! on April 18, 2008, 01:32:33 PM
I felt dingus.  Then again, on 19 September 1985 in Mexico, I was STANDING OUT BY THE HIGHWAY AND EVERYTHING and didn't have a damn clue that THIS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Mexico_City_earthquake) was going on...so either I'm immune, or just...uh...

...dense.
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: StormBringer on April 18, 2008, 01:37:11 PM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!I felt dingus.  Then again, on 19 September 1985 in Mexico, I was STANDING OUT BY THE HIGHWAY AND EVERYTHING and didn't have a damn clue that THIS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Mexico_City_earthquake) was going on...so either I'm immune, or just...uh...

...dense.
I am voting for the latter.
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: Dr Rotwang! on April 18, 2008, 01:56:42 PM
You're prolly right, SB.
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: jrients on April 18, 2008, 06:18:45 PM
I'm in trouble with my wife for waking up just long enough to say "It's just the wind" then rolling over and going back to sleep.  My daughter didn't even stir.
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: Spike on April 18, 2008, 07:39:08 PM
Heh. I was in Kabul when Pakistan had that massive Earthquake. It was the second or third... maybe even fourth 'aftershock' before I realized what I was feeling.  

Sort of like a massage chair that included my feetses.
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: Jackalope on April 19, 2008, 06:28:42 AM
There is six inches of snow on the ground outside my window.  It's April, and this is Seattle, where we don't usually get six inches of snow in January.

So earthquakes in the fairly geologically stable Midwest don't surprise me at all.  Clearly, the End Times are nigh.
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: dar on April 19, 2008, 11:58:07 PM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!didn't have a damn clue that THIS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Mexico_City_earthquake) was going on...so either I'm immune, or just...uh...

...dense.

Or drunk, or very happy, or both?
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: Dr Rotwang! on April 21, 2008, 01:57:40 PM
Quote from: darOr drunk, or very happy, or both?
Saying "Dr Rotwang! doesn't drink" is kind of like saying "The ocean's kinda deep".
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: James J Skach on April 21, 2008, 03:24:24 PM
Another "aftershock" this AM - 4.5 on the Richter.  Anyone feel it?

Nothing up North that I felt...
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: Zachary The First on April 21, 2008, 09:24:17 PM
Quote from: James J SkachAnother "aftershock" this AM - 4.5 on the Richter.  Anyone feel it?

Nothing up North that I felt...

Nada.
Title: Midwest Earthquake!
Post by: Thanatos02 on April 22, 2008, 06:57:26 AM
I'm in the St. Louis area, and it was about 4 am that I felt the first quake. I thought it might of been a sudden windstorm or a tornado or something. It took a little to realize it was the earth shaking.

I'm the only person who's here at night, so I didn't have anyone to reflect on the issue with. It didn't seem to disturb anything, and nobody lost power - which I would have known since I'm the one that answers those calls.

There was another one at 10:30 that was the 4.5, but I slept through it hard. It would have had to of been much more potent then 4.5 to have woken me at my morning sleep.