Jude 2

It hit about 4:38am, I woke up because my house was rattling and I had time to look out my bedroom window to see if it was wind and I could see the tree in the front yard shaking as well. This is the first noticeable earthquake that I remember experiencing.

I went downstairs about twenty minutes later and found this headline on KSDK.com "An earthquake shook the St. Louis-area Friday morning, rattling people out of bed. The U.S. Geological Survey says the 5.4 quake was centered around southern Illinios, southwest of Evansville, Indiana."

Yikes! Glad you guys are okay.

It woke me up also but I thought a storm was coming. Rattled the house a little but didn't wake the dog. So much for animal esp!

Give a dog a break.

5.4 Quake story.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080418/D9048A9G1.html

We felt it here in Kentucky. I was awake and felt the house shaking

My daughter called me from Clarksville, TN (I'm in Atlanta right now) and she and my husband felt the earthquake! Clarksville is approximately 150 miles away.

Shook me awake. I thought I was in convulsions from all these post-surgery drugs.

Louisville is acting like it was "their" earthquake with the Mayor being on TV all morning with all the civil structure engineers etc.

There are bricks in the street in older sections of town, and they're saying the New Governmental Center has been damaged (the repair funds will probably buy all the crooks in City government new Jaguars)

On the local news this morning, people as far west as Lebanon, MO (50 miles east of us here in Springfield) said they felt it. Didn't feel it here in Springfield though.

Glad you are ok. How deep was it located? I've experienced a few, and sometimes they roll other times they seem to shake hard.

I hope it wasn't the New Madrid Fault Line! I have watched too many shows where they predict the US splitting in half at the New Madrid Fault Line! That is only a hop, skip and a jump from us.

AFTERSHOCK!!!!

11:16AM

Ilovebigcats wrote:I hope it wasn't the New Madrid Fault Line! I have watched too many shows where they predict the US splitting in half at the New Madrid Fault Line! That is only a hop, skip and a jump from us.

News this morning said it was not the New Madrid Fault - but we just started feeling tremors again here in SE Missouri (10:16 a.m. CST).

Kinda spooky!

ah man, missed it up here. i would love to be playing paintball in a earthquake. hehehheee

I didn't notice the aftershock. I was standing in the kitchen at the time, cooking lunch.

Tracy wrote:We felt it here in Kentucky. I was awake and felt the house shaking

Tracy I didn't realize you were in KY. You must be way out west to have felt that!

[EDIT] OK maybe this was bigger than I thought, we didn't feel it here, but we're much farther South East in KY