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- mtcantor, on 04/18/2008, -6/+348***** quake just woke me up. Whole house was shaking. Not the sort of thing one expects in Saint Louis.
Oh well, back to sleep. - bigburd88, on 04/18/2008, -6/+156Am I the only one that slept right through it?
- staxofmax, on 04/18/2008, -8/+148I live in Seattle and I didn't feel a thing.
- Filter, on 04/18/2008, -1/+137I thought my wife was shaking the bed and I went back to sleep. Last time I felt an earthquake I was 6 years old and living in California. Then I thought my dog was shaking the bed. I really need to learn to tell if it's an earthquake.
- XxSRMxX, on 04/18/2008, -6/+118Quake shook my whole house...I thought Jesus was coming back...
- redbluemangle, on 04/18/2008, -7/+111We now suspect that Al Quaeda in Iraq has penetrated the earth core of liquid hot magma and is now testing an earth quake device. America needs to invade all countries located on or around any tectonic plates for freedom and security.
- KSUdesigner, on 04/18/2008, -5/+103Because the first thing Jesus will do when he comes back is go around shaking people's houses.
- weeeezzll, on 04/18/2008, -0/+74To which she replied, "Honey, there haven't been any earthquakes in this bed in years."
- jonnyboyca, on 04/18/2008, -1/+74Just look at the size of that blue box in the middle of the US map... http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/
- twmsdude, on 04/18/2008, -6/+78Stupid quake woke me up as well. Scared the ***** out of me. Being an Indiana resident all my life, I have never felt anything like this. I thought we were being bombed when it was happening. It had to have lasted a good 30 seconds. Damn
- chanop, on 04/18/2008, -0/+64Come on now, your sister isn't that hot
- ServAce85, on 04/18/2008, -3/+64That was cool.
- Shelter22, on 04/18/2008, -1/+58It's such a big deal, because most people in the mid-west (myself included) have never experienced anything like this. Your post was good and this isn't directed at you, but I've already heard like 10 people today talk about how they lived in California and blah blah blah. Well, that's fine. Next time it snows out there don't make a big deal about it, it's just snow!
- stevetrojanman, on 04/18/2008, -5/+52Well...a 5.4 is a nice sized quake...nothing to get too panicked about. Prior to Connecticut, I lived in California for 25 years...plenty of 6's and 7's experienced there. A 5 will rattle your cage...a 7 will knock down the cage.
- joshld, on 04/18/2008, -17/+64Sorry guys, that was me. I farted...
- Olfster, on 04/18/2008, -5/+50Being in Northern Illinois it was rather unsettling to feel my desk shaking. We don't usually get earthquakes here. Very Rare here. Woke up a lot of people.
- 8ight, on 04/18/2008, -3/+47I'm about 40 miles from the epicenter. It was a hell of a ride. We only felt about 15 seconds of it because we were sleeping and missed the first part. I couldn't believe how far reaching it was... Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville, St. Louis, Chicago, and even Milwaukee.
We woke up and I told my wife that it must have been thunder. Then as I laid there I thought no way. That bitch shook too much and there was no other thunder, lightining, or storms. I got up and pulled up USGS and there it was. A big red box in South Eastern Illinois... 5.4. Pretty sweet. - JT114881, on 04/18/2008, -0/+41How else is he going to wake them up?
- lester1024, on 04/18/2008, -1/+41Two reasons we know your lying.
1. You were talking on the phone at 4:50am
2. You were talking to a "hot chick" - UncleHenry, on 04/18/2008, -0/+39Yeah, woke me up too, and I'm in Cincinnati. By the time I got up out of bed and turned the light on it was over though. I couldn't figure out why the hell it sounded like things were moving until I saw the article.
- RajDhillon, on 04/18/2008, -1/+39IT WAS HORRIBLE!
My car flipped upside down, there's a lightpole in my bedroom now. WTF AM I GONNA DO WITH A LIGHTPOLE IN MY BED ROOM.
There's a huge hole in front of my house and like 6 people fell in, now I have the responsibility of feeding them and taking care of them until the fire dept. gets here with a thousand and one foot ladder.
Seriously though, I live in Indianapolis and I could feel it myself. The dressers were shaking and *****. - kittnerrules, on 04/18/2008, -0/+37Was asked 4 times before I got to my desk: "What happened, your girlfriend fall off the bed?"
- lester1024, on 04/18/2008, -1/+34wuss.......
- JonInTheBox, on 04/18/2008, -4/+34In St. Charles, MO here, and woke me up. Scared the crap out of me!
- sofaKing812, on 04/18/2008, -0/+30"WTF AM I GONNA DO WITH A LIGHTPOLE IN MY BED ROOM."
Get a stripper? - EricMiIIer, on 07/10/2009, -1/+29"So there I was in bed with my girlfriend, and the room began to shake. I got scared and tried to run, but she casually led me by my ...."
Dude you are seriously one Pizza Delivery guy short of a decent chick porn. - RooDoG, on 04/18/2008, -0/+28Earthquakes in the Midwest are uncommon, but they do happen from time to time. I would say every 10-15 years there will be one that can be felt, but they usually don't do much damage, if at all. The New Madrid fault is capable of producing 8+ magnitude quakes, but it may only ever happen once in 500+ years. The last major quake happened in the early 1800's. Scientists have actually been predicting around a 6.0 magnitude earthquake to occur by 2040 on this fault, so this could be it.
- EricMiIIer, on 07/10/2009, -0/+27Well did she?
- bonjovisucks, on 04/18/2008, -2/+29I was having a dream, and in my dream my roommate yelled out to me that his dog was humping my bed, so I halfway woke up and noticed my bed shaking. I started kicking the end of the bed, yelling at him to stop. Then I realized the door was shut, and the dog wasn't even in my room. I thought it was just a really intense dream. Thanks Digg.
I live in West Tennessee, by the way. - Draakan, on 04/18/2008, -0/+27I live in central Wisconsin and I thought it was wierd that I woke up at 4:40 am. Did not feel any shaking but was wondering why the heck I was up. Now I know.
- RatGuy5, on 04/18/2008, -10/+36I'm from California living in Indiana temporarily. When I left my apartment this morning some guy asked me, "Did you feel the earthquake? The news said it was a 5.2!". I said, "I'm from California. I don't wake up for anything less than a 6 pointer." Then I punched him in the vagina for being a pussy.
- CaffieneMan, on 04/18/2008, -2/+27It was 5.2, not 5.4. They revised it from the initial estimate.
And yes, I sat up in bed and told my wife (who apparently didn't feel it) "I think we just had an earthquake" - EricAnderton, on 04/18/2008, -0/+253. "cool points"
- EricMiIIer, on 07/10/2009, -9/+33That's what she said.
- eth3l, on 04/18/2008, -2/+24Woke me up. I live in the 'Lou and spent 12 years in Ca. This was not like any kind of So Cal earthquake. Those "rol" like waves. This was violent shaking, like something was hitting our house. I love earthquakes - hate wild fires.
5.4 is pretty effing big for the mid-west where earthquakes like this *rarely* happen - MikeSD34, on 04/18/2008, -1/+22Oh so she was slacking off instead? You've got to get them up early so they can make breakfast for everyone, as well as having clean clothes laid out for everyone when they wake up.
/sarcasm - jjhat1, on 04/18/2008, -1/+19I'm in Louisville KY and it jolted me awake, but before I could do anything it was already over.
- gamermasterman, on 04/18/2008, -3/+20Got woke up in southern Indiana. It scared me as I've never been in an earthquake before. I didn't even know what it was at first.
- zachtib, on 04/18/2008, -0/+17Same here... I woke up thinking "Was that an earthquake?" But decided I must be crazy, and went back to sleep.
- brundlefly76, on 04/18/2008, -0/+17Check out the video of the live newscast when the quake hit:
http://www.stationstops.com/2008/04/18/illinois-ea ... - bjornski, on 04/18/2008, -1/+18***** off, spammer. I'm not about to install that "codec" to watch your video with adult content which "may not be suitable".
***** - hadak, on 04/18/2008, -5/+22December 21, 2012.
- eddosa, on 04/18/2008, -0/+16I was wondering why i woke up next to my bed this morning. Now i know.
- orangefly, on 04/18/2008, -0/+15no but she pronks a good pronk....
- mwrl, on 04/18/2008, -0/+15DON'T PANIC!
- baylorbear, on 04/18/2008, -0/+14Yeah good thing, because you just lost them all on digg with that comment.
- ungajava, on 04/18/2008, -0/+14Son, being interested in science and nature doesn't mean you crave death and destruction, son.
- kipmartin, on 04/18/2008, -0/+14like you are too hip, dude!
- ByrcheWroot, on 04/18/2008, -1/+15Earthquakes in Indiana are awesome. It's been a while since the last one. I thought it rather ironic, my boss was flying out to California this morning and we have a quake here at home. He had to wait for them to check the runways for cracks.
- techweenie1, on 04/18/2008, -0/+12I live in Chicago and I didn't feel *****...slept right through it.
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