Jan. 31, 1986? Remember it like it was yesterday.
I was in college at the time, at Cleveland State downtown in a 5th floor classroom. Everything just started to shake and roll for a minute, then we finished class. Then I drove my ass home to make sure the house was OK....
I was in a fairly new long two-story building on the near west side that ran east-west and you could hear the rumble quickly move from one end to the other. It sounded like a crowd of people running along the roof. The metal supports on the suspended ceilings were squeaking the whole time, maybe 10-15 seconds. Yeah, that was quite a surprise. I know someone who was in a school in Lake county and the walls in a stairwell cracked.