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 Magickal Destiny
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4/18/2008 7:17:35 AM reply with quote send message to Magickal Destiny Object to Post   

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080418/ap_on_re_us/midwest_earthquake

One of our Showdog minpin members lives near there....
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heard about that on the news this morning, a 5.4 was it? i guess some places in Mighican even felt it a little. not here tho, not that i noticed, but i guess a place that measures tectonic plate movements in Grand Rapids had tables shaking.
hope everyone is well, and little damage done.
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4/18/2008 7:27:24 AM reply with quote send message to Silk Shadows Object to Post

They felt the earthquake all the way up to Cleveland, Ohio. Bet it scared a whole lotta people last night.
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4/18/2008 7:36:34 AM reply with quote send message to foreversummer Object to Post

Goodness.
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at 4:30 or so this morning I felt it here in Southern Indiana, about 2 hours away from West Salem, IL. At first I thought it was semi trucks flyin down the road or a train, but trucks and the trains never felt like that before. I hopped online to check the earthquake center and sure enough thats what had happened. Best wishes to all who were closer!
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I am in the Chicago northwest burbs, and I admitt I slept through it as did many of my co-workers. I got a phone call at 5AM this morning from my friend who was woken up by it, teasing me that I am such a heavy sleeper that an earthquake doesn't wake me...but a phone does?

It is my understanding that parts of Kentucky and Indiana received the most damage.

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heh, I felt it razz :p First earthquake I've felt before. I'm over in Northwest Indiana. I woke up and felt my bed shaking a little. wasn't a big deal much and I'm really not even sure how it woke me up lol At first I thought I was just going a little crazy but i saw my sister wake up and asked her if she feels anything (asked her like 3 times because she was so out of it... lol) and she said her bed was shaking, so by then I figured it was an earthquake. It was still going the whole time I was asking my sister, so it wasn't just a measly couple of seconds like I read someone say. Had to be long enough to wake me up plus during the "conversation" with my sister. eta: When I woke up my alarm clock said 4:45am and it's about 6-7 mins fast, so that's about right razz :p

Then, during english class today, I felt the floor vibrating. I thought maybe someone dropped something big in the building, or someone was rolling a cart down the hallway (not that i heard anything). Since nobody else seemed to notice I didn't say anything, but I was reading this article www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-downstate-quake-react-web-apr19,1,6404477.story?track=rss
and it says there a "second tremblor" (aftershock I asume) occurred just after 10, and my english class is 10-11, so I wasn't going crazy xD

From what I've heard there hasn't been much damages and no injuries reported really. Just a collapsed porch(but the lady trapped was ok) and some broken dishes and maybe windows close to the epicenter .

The earthquake really wasn't that big a deal from what I understand, it's just that the area isn't exactly California so we aren't used to earthquakes lol I thought it was pretty exciting anyway, but will be happy if I never have live through a bigger earthquake lol. I guess it was a 5.2 and the record for the area is a 5.4?

Hopefully everyone turns out safe, though I'm guessing they are. It's definitely not as bad as all the snow we had over the winter!
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4/18/2008 3:59:22 PM reply with quote send message to JoeNJackies Object to Post

It's also the anniversary of that great San Fransisco earthquake. Go figure razz :p
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4/18/2008 4:57:08 PM reply with quote send message to Little River Dog Object to Post

yea my cousins felt it in tennessee
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4/18/2008 5:28:11 PM reply with quote send message to Shybade Object to Post

I'm in Fort Wayne IN (northern IN) and we felt it here pretty good. I was in the shower when it hit... wasn't quite sure what it was at the time though... actually thought I was losing my mind (but how do you lose something that you haven't had in years?)
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I am in IA and I didn't feel it, but yet again, I am a deep sleeper and I wasn't awake. laugh :D
 Lotsa Love Kennels
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4/19/2008 4:33:09 PM reply with quote send message to Lotsa Love Kennels Object to Post

well,im all the way over on the east coast,(MD) and i dident feel anyhting but i heard about it on the news.

Best of wishes to all that it hit.
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I felt it where I live, too! It woke me at 5 am! Everyone was talkin about it at school!

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Wow...shocked <img src="> In my entire life time I had never had a earthquake by my house. (I use to live in a suburb of Chicago) I hope my old friends aren't too freaked out.

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