5.2 earthquake rocks large region of Midwest

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I awoke at 3:00 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep, so I stayed up and grabbed a cup of coffee about 4:00. My dog made some odd noises while in the room with me but I had left the lights out so I don't know what it was she was doing. When the quake tremors came I felt my entire couch rock gently back and forth but oddly my bottle collection did not rattle. From what I saw this morning nobody had been injured and I find myself thinking how awesome it is that from where I am, about 250 miles as the crow flies from the epicenter, that tremor's movement could be felt. Awesome in the respect to the amount of ground/earth the vibrations had to pass through.

Kim

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5.2 earthquake rocks large region of Midwest

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Residents across the Midwest were awakened Thursday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage.

The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered six miles from West Salem, Ill., and 66 miles from ville, Ind.

"It shook our house where it woke me up," said Behm of Philo, 10 miles south of Champaign. "Windows were rattling, and you could hear it. The house was shaking inches. For people in central Illinois, this is a big deal. It's not like California."

Bonnie Lucas, a morning co-host at WHO-AM in Des Moines, said she was sitting in her office when she felt her chair move. She grabbed her desk, and then heard the ceiling panels start to creak. The shaking lasted about 5 seconds, she said.

The quake is believed to have involved the Wabash fault, a northern extension of the New Madrid fault about 6 miles north of Mt. Carmel, Ill., said United States Geological Survey geophysicist Randy Baldwin.

The last earthquake in the region to approach the severity of Friday's temblor was a 5.0 magnitude quake that shook a nearby area in 2002, Baldwin said.

"This is a fairly large quake for this region," he said. "They might occur every few years."

Baldwin said the USGS revised the quake's magnitude from 5.4 to 5.2.

Irvetta McMurtry of Cincinnati said she felt the rattling for up to 20 seconds.

"All of a sudden, I was awakened by this rumbling shaking," said McMurtry, 43. "My bed is an older wood frame bed, so the bed started to creak and shake, and it was almost like somebody was taking my mattress and moving it back and forth."

Lucas Griswold, a dispatcher in West Salem, said the County sheriff's department received reports of minor damage and no injuries.

"Oh, yeah, I felt it. It was interesting," Griswold said. "A lot of shaking."

Indiana State Police spokesman Sgt. Todd Ringle in ville said there were no immediate reports of damage.

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[Guest guest]

> I awoke at 3:00 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep, so I

> stayed up and grabbed a cup of coffee about 4:00. My dog made some

> odd noises while in the room with me but I had left the lights out

> so I don't know what it was she was doing. When the quake tremors

> came I felt my entire couch rock gently back and forth but oddly my

> bottle collection did not rattle. From what I saw this morning

> nobody had been injured and I find myself thinking how awesome it

> is that from where I am, about 250 miles as the crow flies from the

> epicenter, that tremor's movement could be felt. Awesome in the

> respect to the amount of ground/earth the vibrations had to pass

> through.

>

I'm embarrassed to say that I slept through it. Like you I was awake

at 3 a.m. but fell back asleep on the couch before 4.

My wife however did feel it because she mentioned that she thought it

was me shaking the bed. However the bed wasn't moving but she was! ;-)

--

Mike

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I haven't kept track as knowing the East Coast and even the Midwest is

difficult for a " Left Coaster " like myself though my mother was from Bennet

Colorado and father from Atmore Alabama.

The way the news talks about it that it sounds like it had been felt as far

as a thousand miles away! ;-)

Randy Garrett

Antioch, CA USA

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Re: 5.2 earthquake rocks large region of Midwest

Glad you're OK, Kim.

It is interesting how far that " moderate " quake was felt. Then again, when

that 4.2 hit here several years ago, it shook this house pretty good even

though it was centered 60 miles away.

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From what I saw this morning nobody had been injured and I find myself

thinking how awesome it is that from where I am, about 250 miles as the crow

flies from the epicenter, that tremor's movement could be felt. Awesome in

the respect to the amount of ground/earth the vibrations had to pass

through.

Kim

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[Guest guest]

As you'll see from my account, I woke up two minutes before the

shaking began, and about thirty seconds before the neighborhood dogs

started barking.

It must be an Aspie thing. Our sensitivities cause us to detect these

things well in advance.

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I awoke at 3:00 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep, so I

stayed up and grabbed a cup of coffee about 4:00. My dog made some

odd noises while in the room with me but I had left the lights out so

I don't know what it was she was doing. When the quake tremors came

I felt my entire couch rock gently back and forth but oddly my bottle

collection did not rattle. From what I saw this morning nobody had

been injured and I find myself thinking how awesome it is that from

where I am, about 250 miles as the crow flies from the epicenter,

that tremor's movement could be felt. Awesome in the respect to the

amount of ground/earth the vibrations had to pass through.

Kim

[Guest guest]

" The way the news talks about it that it sounds like it had been felt

as far as a thousand miles away! ;-) "

Last I heard it was felt as far south as Florida, as far east as Ohio,

as far west as Iowa, and as far north as Wisconsin.

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