I felt it, the whole house shook.
Didn't know what happened, later I found out it was an earthquake. Like my title says, we hardly ever get earthquakes. Sure nothing was broken and wasn't as big as other earthquakes, but it happened.
Glad you're okay, and that it wasn't a bad one.
yeah, glad you're fine. also your stuff wasnt damaged.
We had some light earthquakes happen very rarely where I used to live, mostly shocks with an epicenter farther to the south where quakes were normal. For some reason they´d always happen at night when I was sleeping and everyone else but me would wake up. :C
Therefore I never experienced an earthquake, though from accounts from other people who did experience such relatively small shocks I can say it must be really scary...
Good to hear that you're okay. I've never experienced an earthquake, nor do I ever want to.
Let's see, Haiti earthquake, unusually rainy California, two (three if you count today's blizzard) unusually massive snowstorms in the mid-Atlantic, Illinois earthquake...that's enough evidence to declare that nature has completely lost it's mind, right?
The world is scary, I'm so sorry you had to experience something that scary, but atleast you have a crazy memory lol!
More like debilitating trauma, right?
Crazy thing is that an area near the southern tip of Illnois is the second largest threat for earthquakes outside of the West Coast (New Madrid Fault) but glad things are okay.
Hey Craig, did you feel the quake?
Apparently, Rockford did. It was 4am apparently? I didn't feel squat. 😛 Glad everyone's okiedokie, though.
Suprise suprise, new information has been revealed all day.
Turns out they repinpointed the epicenter to be WITHIN WALKING/BIKING DISTANCE OF MY HOUSE.
As people may or may not know, I have moved out west from my old house that I had lived in all my life smack dab in the middle of Elgin to a new house. One, that due to snaking boundary lines land grab, is still considered Elgin. West of a road so infamous, it has its own wikipedia article.
Wow, yeah the world has lost it's mind. We had an earthquake about two months ago or so in Nebraska. A few days before Haiti, Cali got an earthquake as well. Then a week after Haiti, either Venezuela or Colombia experienced one.
Then we get this craptastic winter to top it off and the whole Continental US keeps getting smacked with blizzards, ice, snow storms, rain, and all sorts of crazy winter weather. All the while, there's heat waves in the Caribbean (according to my family and bf that is). I've heard China has it bad as well. We got a few people visiting at the moment and they said it's colder than usual...
Market Raisen 2008 *never forget*
Haha no seriously that one felt like a truck hitting my house, and i'm probably around 80 miles away or something. We get pansy earthquakes here since if I remember right the UK is smack in the middle of one of those tutonic plates, so for us guys at 5.2 it was like WOAH
Wow, yeah the world has lost it's mind. We had an earthquake about two months ago or so in Nebraska. A few days before Haiti, Cali got an earthquake as well. Then a week after Haiti, either Venezuela or Colombia experienced one.
Then we get this craptastic winter to top it off and the whole Continental US keeps getting smacked with blizzards, ice, snow storms, rain, and all sorts of crazy winter weather. All the while, there's heat waves in the Caribbean (according to my family and bf that is). I've heard China has it bad as well. We got a few people visiting at the moment and they said it's colder than usual...
I still think that Mother Nature is suffering from PMS.
You'd be crazy too if you had to support that many lifeforms as well..
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do;
She gave them some broth without any bread;
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
We go to bed in the year 2012. Yaaaaaaaay, no more whippings!! 😀
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