It woke me up near Peoria. It seemed to last for ever. I remember thinking “this can’t be good for the house”.
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I believe there was an after shock around 10:15 CDT.
Just experienced a very strong aftershock here in Evansville Indiana, the warehouse where I work is still shaking. 10:15 am
I just felt another one in Southeast Missouri at 10:17am.
We live just east of Evansville and it was definitely a noisy event! My husband and I were awake, waiting for the alarm to go off when you could hear banging, sounded like a empty semi hitting chuck holes on the road and then the house started shaking and rattleing. Went on for 30 seconds or more. We just had a 4.5 about an hour ago or so. It beats having a big one instead. This is the first one I’ve ever felt! Always before, I was driving in my car or something..On one hand, way cool, on the other, kind of unnerving.
We felt it here in NE Arkansas. It felt like a semi going down the road.
5.2,Huh? 7 Miles Deep. (Oh, O.K.) LOL
It woke me up! I wasn’t sure that I hadn’t dreamed it until I heard the news reports later! LOL! My son didn’t feel it but about 5 minutes after I asked him we both felt the little aftershock. Did the Mississippi change course? ;)
The Kos Kids say this earthquake happened on the Bush’s fault.
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The worst series of earthquakes in US history occurred in New Madrid, MO in 1811.
They’re projected to have been in the 9.o-9.1 range. The flow of the Mississippi River was reversed for a time and the channel was changed. Geysers of sand shot hundreds of feet into the air from huge holes that opened up in the ground.
Churchbells rang and windows cracked in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo from the shock.
If one were to hit the Midwest region there today of such a magnitude, St Louis, Memphis, and Louisville would be destroyed. And you know Midwestern cities do not have the architectural and structural engineering earthquake resistance that West Coast buildings must have.
San Francisco in 1906 and Anchorage in 1964 would pale in comparison.
That part of Indiana is on the northern edge of the New Madrid fault system.
Is this the same one reported in KY?