Midwest Earthquake (insurance, neighborhood, train)

[ajf131]

Last night, I awoke to find my bed shaking. I learned early this morning that a 5.2 earthquake occured in Mount Carmel, Illinois, approximately 150 miles to the east of St. Louis. My friends in Chicago, Indianapolis, and Des Moines reported feeling the quake too. Just wanted to start a discussion on this, as I believe the last time an earthquake of this magnitude happened in the Midwest was 20 years ago.

[Chicago60614]

My dad wrote me from Iowa City. He said he shot up in bed around 4:30am, the cat jumped up in bed freaking out, and everything in the room was making noise and shaking.

I felt absolutely nothing, but everyone in my office in Chicago is babbling about what happened. It might have had something to do with the drinking I did from 7pm to 2am.

[chitownwarrior]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

My dad wrote me from Iowa City. He said he shot up in bed around 4:30am, the cat jumped up in bed freaking out, and everything in the room was making noise and shaking.

I felt absolutely nothing, but everyone in my office in Chicago is babbling about what happened. It might have had something to do with the drinking I did from 7pm to 2am.

HAHA...i drank last night too...i was still pretty buzzed when i felt the tremor...."was i drinking absenthe??"

it felt like a big train was rumbling through the neighborhood.

[st. louie louie]

While I too had a decent amount of wine in my blood, it woke me up. In fact a small tremor happened again at about 10:15 central.

And while it's kind of cool to feel and talk about, no insurance co. will give you earthquake insurance. A bad quake could devastate a lot of people.

[Chicago60614]

I just read the San Fran earthquake of 1906 also happened on April 18th, and within an hour of the time we got hit this morning.

Strange...

[arctichomesteader]

Well just wait till the entire New Madrid fault finally lets go like around 1812, a good portion of the country will be in shambles...the Midwest is actually prone to big earthquakes, just not as often as places like CA and AK and such...

[missymomof3]

It was felt as far north as Milwaukee, as far south as Northern alabama, and as far east as Cincinatti. amazing!

[metro223]

Apparently a lot of people felt it around here for about 5 to 10 seconds ... I think I was sleeping.

[STLCardsBlues1989]

I slept through the one at 4:30 and I didn't feel the 4.6 at 10.

[ajf131]

Maybe I'd better modify this to Midwest and South earthquake because while it happened in Illinois, it apparantly also happened in Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama I'm presuming if it happened as far south as missymom claims.