Rare, Large Earthquake Hits Midwest http://news.aol.com/story/_a/rare-large-earthquake-hits-midwest/20080418062509990001?icid=100214839x1200229032x1200008022 Yes I felt in being north of Chicago,
i also been in an earthquake when i was a kid and I was jumping in my bed with brother..then I realized that there is an earthquake already..
That has to be the strangest feeling, I think I'd have to move or else I'd stress about when it would happen again.
You shouldn't really hope to be in an event like that because of the consequences of one can be very bad. You being from Australia should know of the extensive effects of the 1989 Newcastle earthquake (5.6, 0.4 more than this one). On the topic though I think it'd be extremely scary being caught in an earthquake. I've only experienced a few rumbles in my lifetime but they did feel quite awkward. Once at night and once in a library only really realising from the prolonged shaking and the news report.
i was in an earthquake ,it was around 5 am in morning here near delhi , i would have not known about the earthquake unless my pile of books hadn't fallen on me , and guess what , i was too lazy to get up from my bed and hide under it
I was in several earthquakes...and those moments were awful...you feel it will never end....terrible, trust me
I really didn't know what it was since this area doesn't get many earthquakes. If the video on aol is still up, the weather man wasn't too sure either was it was. And it wasn't too bad, it was over in about 10 seconds, since I'm a bit a way from the center of it, I didn't feel the full effect of it.
I live in southern Indiana... felt it "hard" around 5:30 am... then again around 11:15! Tbh, I thought it was a storm or something at first (wind blowing hard), then it just kept shaking... it was pretty cool! :>
Spending 4 years in Alaska, I got pretty used to 'em. Not the big stuff, we'd get small quakes every few months or so. I recall one night waking up, the entire house just shaking like mad, thinking that it was the next 'big one'. No such luck Earthquakes are really one of the only things I miss about Anchorage
I felt it here in Nashville. Was cool, lived in Iceland for 4 years so it was pretty cool to feel one again.
I'm east of Chicago. I felt it too. I thought it was the house shifting from age at first, then I thought it was a storm rolling in. Had no idea it was an earth quake until later when I heard about it from my dad.
We're basically in the same area, we really don't expect earthquakes here, which is why I also didn't think it was an earthquake
I have experienced an earthquake before but not quite as big as the one mentioned in this thread, earthquakes are horrible.
earthquakes are really weired to be in. A few years back I was in india when they had one about 7-7.5 magnitude, the first thing that i saw was a car moving back and forth. It was a surreal experiance, becuase we as humans firmly belive the ground below us is solid, and stable, but when it starts to shake it shatters one of our firmest belifs, really makes you think...