Who felt the earthquake?

[d-dub]

Was up working at the computer when it hit last night. 3:59am. Shook the whole house once or twice and rattled the hell out the windows. I really got a sense of the power of mother earth. And that was only Magnitude 4.3. Can't imagine the 7 that rocked Haiti.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010snay.php

 

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[kimsdad]

I'm kind of sorry I missed this one - we were still out of state.

I did feel the one in Indiana in '08, though. I woke up at 4:00 a.m. and couldn't get back to sleep. Sitting at the kitchen table, I started to feel dizzy & woozy, then I looked up & saw the chains on the ceiling fan swaying.

You were close to this last one. That must have been wierd! They are scary for sure! I hope that's the worst we ever have!

 

[d-dub]

Not really scary, it was actually pretty exciting.
Wondering if it was worse for some of the guys here that were closer. Tim?

Hope things are getting better, Neil.

 

[Lookn4Seated]

Slept right through that puppy!

 

[p2c]

I only heard about it on the radio. A couple years back we had a 4+ earthquake that I did feel. I am actually surprised we can feel those. When I lived in Ohio back in the 80's we had a couple of 5.5's, those indeed were noticeable. With each increase of .1 there is a 10x increase in magnitude.

 

[Lowbatts]

At that moment I was driving about 4000 lbs of steel coils through a bumpy warehouse. My butt could have been the epicenter, as sometimes it seems it is, and I'd have missed it.

The wife and kid were sleeping and both were awakened by it saying nothing rattled or seemed to shake, but rather it seemed the entire house moved. The wife said it felt like a snowplow was going by the house at 100 mph. She also said the cat remained "unmoved" by the shake. The kid figured ET aliens were landing atop the house again, this time with their lights out. I think she needs to take a break from the schoolwork and go beepin'.

 

[twistidd]

Why do the earthquakes have to be at 4 am?

 

[treasurefiend]

I was at work wide awake and didn't feel a thing, at 5am when people showed up for work they asked if I felt it but that was the 1st I herd about it . I grew up in CA and like earthquakes, moved here in 93'.

 

[davebien]

I woke up, said to my wife, "What was that?" and went back to sleep. I thought it was the wind on the shutters. And the cat could of cared less. Duh.

 

[TreasureGuy25]

I didn't feel it and I was up at the time it happened! But I was lucky enough to feel a pretty big one last year when I was going to school at UCLA. Shook my whole apartment, and with the low pitched rumble the first thing that I thought it could be was an air attack/bombing of some sort, freaked me out! I just had never felt one before. I didn't even know that earthquake's (one's we could feel at least) could even occur near Chicago. Crazy.

 

[Mayo South Elgin]

I was awake and watching TV at the time. I'm located about 10 miles from the Epicenter.
For a very brief moment I thought it was just heavy wind shaking the roof and walls.

But then the entire house seemed to move sideways about 3 inches. It was quite loud too. This was really freaky. I'm guessing this lasted maybe a couple or three seconds at which time I levitated up off the couch, ran towards the front windows to see if a village snowplow had run into our house - saw nothing so then I thought maybe a neighbors house blew up and we were hit by the blast wave. I quickly dismissed that because there was no explosion or fire and so the next thought was maybe a plane crashed real close by. Looking out the back windows I saw no debris field or flames.

Amazing what goes through your head when confronted by something never before experienced. I was searching for logical explanations and trying to figure out what the heck happened and was almost beginning to doubt the whole experience and chuck it up to a 60's flashback but then I got confirmation from the girlfriend that she felt it too and the boy had woken up from it but quickly fell back asleep. I kept waiting for the "aftershock" but never felt one. It wasn't until around 6am that we saw it mentioned on the news.