any body else feel the earthquake?

[mopinko]

i need to look around and see what the new folks are saying about this. but DH woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me that we were having a quake. the waterbed was still rocking. he says they reported a 5.4 on the new madrid fault.
i am so used to thinking that we are pretty free from major natural events here in the big city, with those tornadoes stuck out there in the burbs and all. if lake michigan rises when the glaciers melt, i will have lakefront property. see, you can't hurt me here.
but this? :hide:
i remember a similar magnitude quake when i was a kid. it made my collection of little blown glass animals walk.

[LSK]

1. didnt feel a thing, slept through it

[Venceremos]

2. I didn't

feel it but my dogs woke me up barking at the same time the news said the quake hit. My son in Champaign felt it and said his windows were rattling.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. I slept through it....

but a coworker who lives in Round Lake did feel it.

I remember the one in 1968 and another one that was maybe in the 1980s.

[jeffrey_X]

4. I felt it and heard our glass doors shaking.

i didn't know what it was until I got to work and read the news.

[ColesCountyDem]

5. I felt it.

I'd been out fishing with a buddy, and we came back around 3:00 to get warm, fix some breakfast, etc. . He'd never been in a 'quake, and didn't know what it was; I, however, grew up in deep Southern Illinois and knew immediately what was shakin' (pun intended).

:)

[murielm99]

6. I didn't realize it was a quake until later.

I heard rattling and something woke me up. My dog ran into the living room and barked for awhile. Then she came back into the bedroom and roofed quietly and growled periodically. It sort of alarmed me for a few minutes, but I went back to sleep.

[DollyM]

7. SI reference on Jay Leno . . .

During the Monday night headliners section Jay Leno read one from a newspaper in southern Illinois quoting an 11 year year old boy from Olney who said "I didn't know it was an earthquake, I thought it was another meth lab blowing up!" So sad but true, the rural America's claim to fame is our meth problem. We are located about an hour east of of the epi center of the earthquake so it rocked our house pretty good. I thought the gas lines under the house had blown up (no meth lab here!) or that we were having a tornado but neither seemed to be the case and the shaking stopped so I decided I was losing my mind and just went back to bed.

[dog_lovin_dem]

8. My husband and I felt it.

Also felt many of the aftershocks. We were in a hotel about 50 miles south of home (Crawford County) last Thursday night and felt a 3.1 "tremor" also. I found this one to be scarier than the stronger one, but we were much closer to the epicenter and on the third floor!