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Offline Getback

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Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« on: April 18, 2008, 04:54:13 AM »
An Earthquake woke me up this morning and of all places here in Indiana. Scared the tar out of me. Must have been a full magnitude of 1. Jeeze, can't a man get some sleep.
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2008, 06:49:44 AM »
Just read about this not 5 minutes ago.

AP reporting it as a 5.4 at its epicenter
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2008, 06:55:58 AM »
5.2 from what I read.  Felt it at 5:40 this morning.

The New Madrid is a major fault line.  There have been a few cataclysmic quakes along this fault in recorded history but none since around the year 1800.
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2008, 07:10:45 AM »
Woke me right up out of bed this morning.

I woke up with a hard jar and then some pretty good shaking for about 8 seconds, then from 9 to maybe 20-25 seconds it got weaker and weaker before it quit. First time I been through a quake so I didnt really know what one was like.

The moment I realised it was one, the first thought that came to me was "How far away is the big one"

Time to make sure we got all the supplies

No damage here though
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2008, 07:23:38 AM »
Quote from: Meatwad on April 18, 2008, 07:10:45 AM
Woke me right up out of bed this morning.

I woke up with a hard jar and then some pretty good shaking for about 8 seconds, then from 9 to maybe 20-25 seconds after I felt it, it got weaker and weaker before it quit. First time I been through a quake so I didnt really know what one was like.

The moment I realised it was one, the first thought that came to me was "How far away is the big one"

Time to make sure we got all the supplies

No damage here though

Great, I screwed this one up. I was going to edit it and I hit quote and changed it in there. Im too tired to be doing this right now
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2008, 07:58:39 AM »
That was a helluva way to get woken up this morning.
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2008, 08:08:30 AM »
i woke up hungover to one in charleston, sc in the very early 1990s... the band i was playing in was playing at "Rockburger"... I drank until like 9 that morning it hit just as i took my first step that afternoon... TOTALLY freaked me out - thought I was having a stroke!
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2008, 08:56:05 AM »
Woke me up this morning too.  I've been in Ohio for 14 years and that's the first one I've felt since I've been here.  Nothing like when I was stationed in CA  :rock
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2008, 10:00:54 AM »
Well I guess the next time I say something about tornados to one of you flatlanders you wont be able to say "at least we don't have earthquakes". :D

A 5.4 is a gentle rocking should have lulled you right back to sleep. :O
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2008, 10:02:14 AM »
Quote from: SIK1 on April 18, 2008, 10:00:54 AM
A 5.4 is a gentle rocking should have lulled you right back to sleep. :O

If it woke you at all.
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #10 on: April 18, 2008, 10:17:25 AM »
Where was the epicenter?
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2008, 10:50:45 AM »
It woke me up at 4:40 but was back asleep a minute or two later. Asked my son about it later when I got him up for school but he didn't know anything had happened. To prove how minor it felt my wife thought it was he guidedog shaking the bed because it woke the dog up and she came sitting next to the bed.
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2008, 11:19:44 AM »
Quote from: Maverick on April 18, 2008, 10:17:25 AM
Where was the epicenter?

West Salem, IL
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2008, 11:47:18 AM »
Slept right throught it.
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Re: Earthquake here in Indiana of all places
« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2008, 11:50:19 AM »
glad it was no worse and no-one was hurt.
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