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Post by GT on Apr 18, 2008 5:06:13 GMT -5
Sheesh! I was lying in bed, half-awake about 5:40 when several of my cats jumped up on me ... then WHAM!!! -- like a big wind gust hit the house! I jumped up, checked my daughter's room, then ran outside to see if there was a tornado. Turns out it was a 5.4 magnitude earthquke (or is that oerthquake?) centered at the southeast Illinois/Indiana border. The New Madrid strikes again! ^__^
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Post by Scott on Apr 18, 2008 6:52:27 GMT -5
I read about your quake this morning. Just a hiccup compared to THE New Madrid quake, which was one of the biggest ever in the contiguous United States. While I was in LA, I slept through the only noticable quake that occurred while I was there.
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Post by geneweigel on Apr 18, 2008 8:14:21 GMT -5
There was an earthquake when I lived in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that we were right on the "epicenter" of (It was coming from the Newtown Creek which divides Brooklyn and Queens near the East River and my friend Taylor lived three neighborhoods over and didn't note anything. Dorothy woke me up and I thought they finally dropped the bomb. I sleep like a log all the time. That reminds me of a good haunted tale. One time I actually slept through an assault in that house and didn't wake up. I woke up one morning and had long burning scratches all over my back. They were superficial but they hurt like hell. I tried to hypothesize that the cat ran over my back several times to duplicate human proportion scrapes. However, all logic aside I "knew" that place was "crawling" but it had a huge backyard which is something you didn't get in New York apartments. Undead? So what? Look at that greenery!!
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Post by Scott on Apr 18, 2008 12:39:24 GMT -5
I've been reading a few stories about this, and I noticed you weren't the only one who mentioned their cats freaking out.
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GT
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Post by GT on Apr 18, 2008 17:18:27 GMT -5
This was the fourth tremor I've felt, but definitely the strongest. The first hit the same day as the tornado in Monticello (4/3/74)--what a coincidence! Must've pissed off a Druid...
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Post by grodog on Apr 19, 2008 9:18:24 GMT -5
I've been around earthquakes in a minor way since I was a kid in South Jersey. We had a small quake when I was 3 or 4, which woke my father---he thought that the furnace or hot water heater had exploded. I also woke up while in Santiago in 1998 to a small 3- or 4-pointer. When I was living in CA, we had several smaller quakes (3-4 pointers), but not while Heather was also living there. There was a 6.2/6.3 quake (10x more powerful than the one in IL yesterday!) in San Simeon, CA, about 1/2 way from San Jose (where we were) to LA---and that shook our area like a 4.x quake would. Haven't felt anything here in Wichita, but we're definitely in-range for the ground shaking effects of a big quake on New Madrid's faults....
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