I was wondering when the FR post was gonna come too. If a bottle hadn’t fallen over in the kitchen I probably would have thought it was my imagination.
Looks like Evansville or Vinecense is the closet mid-sized towns. Not too much in that area.
The New Madrid Seismic Zone, so named for the quake in New Madrid, lies within the central Mississippi Valley. It extends from northeast Arkansas, through southeast Missouri, western Tennessee, western Kentucky to southern Illinois.
We felt it here in NE Mississippi, near the Al/TN/MS border. My daughter and I got up and ran through the house for about ten seconds...sounded and felt like someone was on our porch jumping up and down. I called my answering service and asked them if anything like a seismic event had happened...they said a transformer just blew up downtown but thats all and had no report of a earthquake. The last one we felt was the Ft. Payne, AL, event and it was a 4.8...about 4 years ago.
You might be interested in the info in my post # 329. BTW, the magnitude of this quake has now been downgraded to 5.2, which means that the ‘68 quake (magnitude 5.3) remains the strongest ever with epicenter in the state of Illinois.