Earthquake this morning!

[paddbear0000]

Did anyone else experience the earthquake this morning? There was one on the border of Illinois and Indiana at 5:37 am and we felt it all the way here in Dayton, OH. It was a 5.4 on the Rictor scale. Freaked me out! I've never experienced one before. I had been up all night working on a website, when all of a sudden, the whole house started shaking. It was the weirdest feeling! Things started falling of shelves too.

[boxman55]

I did not feel it here in Wisconson but, I lived in CA for 20 years and have felt a few. When the earth really gets going it sorta feels like standing on a water bed...Boxman

[paddbear0000]

The news this morning said that it could be felt up to 450 miles from the epicenter (West Salem). I'm sure Lori felt it. Chris may have too.

[Sluff]

Some bizarre lady in my area said she felt it, but I think she is nuts. Boxman would have felt it long before I would have. I was up also and I didn't feel it.

[Hawkeye]

I'm near the IL. IN. border and I didn't feel anything this morning.  When I got in one of my co-workers asked me if I felt the earthquake and I jokingly said yes not knowing there was one.  He is a goofball so I though he was joking around and I don't watch the news in the morning.  I also missed it on the radio because I had a CD playing on my way in.  Too weird to have an earthquake here.

[KR Cincy]

We felt it in Northern Kentucky...my wife thought my leg was cramping again and that I was shaking it (and the bed) before leaping out in pain...then a lamp in our 2nd bedroom fell and shattered the bulb, snapping both of us straight up. Then our daughter came out of her room because he bed (which is against a wall) was shaking and bumping and woke her up. So, at the beginning of a very big weekend (First Communion and in-laws 40th wedding anniversary) the whole house was awake at 5:37...UGH!

[Ohio Buckeye]

I didn't feel it in central Ohio but that is when I do my best sleeping.

[flip]

It was felt here in western Kentucky

[Adam_W]

I live in Indianapolis and I either didn't feel it or I slept through it (most likely the later).

Adam

[Chris]

I felt it around 4:30 am. I didn't go to bed yet and at first I thought it was my moms cat trying to get up on top of the couch I was laying on. It was constant so I knew it wasn't the  cat, then I started to think it was truck traffic outside, but it was to intense. Then I realized it was another earthquake in Illinois or that we had another explosion at one of or gas refineries. Turned on the morning news at 5 and they reported that it was a possible earthquake. Then after 10:30 am I felt an aftershock. This earthquake felt different than the last. I finally did get some sleep though. I think the darn coffee machine gave me regular coffee instead of decaf to explain why I couldn't sleep. I hate that feeling.

[thegrammalady]

heard about it on the news. and while i suppose quakes can happen anywhere, i thought illnois/indiana was a pretty strange place for one to occur. (really thought i left that all behind when i left california)