My buddy lives in Mt. Carmel, IL and it woke him up....shook his whole house pretty good I guess. I work in Bloomfield Hills, MI and some people at work said they felt it.

It wasn't enough to wake me up...

 

my mom gets up about 6AM and she said she was looking in the mirrior and was wondering why it was shaking felt it in Farmington hills MI....that wasnt an earthquake my cut-outs are out....sorry guys

 

I woke up at 4 30 am b/c of it and I live 120mi away from the epicenter. Im from st louis

 

so THATS why my aunt and uncle called me at 6 am!
they live in farminton hills too

 

Yeah it was like that too here in Chicago I was like what the hell is going on?

 

I've been in St. Louis all day, but didn't feel a thing. Maybe there will be an aftershock tonight so I can officially say I've lived through an earthquake!

 

I live in Southern Indiana right on the indiana/illinios line and I felt it pretty good. I was up getting dressed when it happened. I have a teacher who lives in Mt Carmel and she said a train derailed because of the earthquake. I guess the town the it started at (West Salem Illinios) is like 10-20 mins away from Mt. Carmel. So it hit pretty close to us. Then at lunch time another one hit but I didn't think it was nearly as bad. It was wierd being inside a school as big as ours and the whole building shaking. Kinda scary to think of something that big shaking..pretty neat considering its my first earthquake I have ever felt. I have heard that these little ones could cause a Big earthquake to our area. Evidently I live on the 2nd most dangerous fault in the US?

 

Something woke me up around 4-5 AM, but I thought it was just a big coal truck going down the road in front of my house. I didn't think anything of it and went back to sleep. My Grandma who lives farther North of me in KY said she heard the corner of her house "pop" like a big puff of wind hit the side of her house or something. I've heard that there's a fault line that lies almost perpendicular with the western TN state line, and it's even bigger than the San Andreas fault. I forgot the name of it, but if it should shift, it would be catastrophic!

 

I'm pretty sure your speaking of the New Madrid Fault Line. This was a small one but one of these days there is supposed to be one rocking a 9.0 or above on the fault which runs right through southern illinois. Thats what fault line this quake happened on..

 

Ya this is what I have heard too. Its suppose to be as bad as the San Fransisco one way back when..I hope in my lifetime it never shifts..

 

That is a decent sized Earthquake, especially for the Midwest.

 

Indeed but, exactly what we'd like to happen. While the Wabash Fault System is not immediately connected to the New Madrid system (the one that is often talked about in circles about 'the big one' for the eastern US), it will help to relieve some of the pressures that are experienced between these two plates (and subplates).

About 20 years ago, a 4.2 was measured along the Rough Creek Fault System which is a subset of the New Madrid (similar to the Wabash).

We need this type of quake to occur... it lets off tectonic pressures at a lower level than it letting go 'all at once' with something significant. Quakes of this magnitude do a couple of very positive things... 1) they let of the energy in smaller amounts and 2) get people thinking about what they need to have ready in the event of a larger quake (very important).

-RP-

 

I live in Western Ky, I never felt a thing I slept through it but my parents and brothers felt it here

 

St. Louis suburbs. Woke the wife up which woke me up. She couldn't figure out what it was. I told her I assume an earthquake, but I've never felt one before so I wasn't sure. Definitely a different feeling when the house is shaking for a good 30-40 seconds. We're about 120 miles from the epicenter.

 

20 miles SE of Chicago. Woke me up, but I thought it was a train and fell back asleep. I did feel a pretty good after shock about 10:30 AM. They said that was a 4.3.