So I just woke up out of sleep and my room was shaking...I thought maybe I had rolled over and shook my bed or something then my girlfriend called. She said she thought someone just busted in her house or something...then I got a call from my parents and it turns out an Earthquake just occurred! Everyone in my house started waking up and we were like "what the hell!??!"!

Turns out it lasted 30 seconds and it was the New Madrid fault ripping (I live in KY) and it was felt by people in New York!

FRIGGIN' EARTHQUAKE!

Ace

United States16096 Posts

April 18 2008 09:56 GMT

I didn't feel it!

lilsusie

3861 Posts

April 18 2008 09:56 GMT

HOLY SHIT I just woke up too - i'm in West Lafayette IN. Just woke up to my bed shaking. =/ My roommate and I were like.. wtf?? but no one else in the apartment complex seems to notice...

Rent-A-Hero

United States137 Posts

April 18 2008 09:58 GMT

I'm from Illinois and my house fell over.

TheOvermind77

United States923 Posts

April 18 2008 09:58 GMT

On April 18 2008 18:56 lilsusie wrote:
HOLY SHIT I just woke up too - i'm in West Lafayette IN. Just woke up to my bed shaking. =/ My roommate and I were like.. wtf?? but no one else in the apartment complex seems to notice...

Yeah I thought it was just because I was sleepy or something and my bed....wow, kind of freaky. Not much news about it now but I know my dog was freaking out a few minutes before and kept barking...eerie.

mdb

Bulgaria4059 Posts

April 18 2008 09:58 GMT

You should be happy it was not Godzila.

TheOvermind77

United States923 Posts

April 18 2008 09:59 GMT

On April 18 2008 18:58 Rent-A-Hero wrote:
I'm from Illinois and my house fell over.

Just read somewhere that it was magnitude 5.4 and based in Illinois.

NarutO

Germany18839 Posts

April 18 2008 10:05 GMT

cloverfield HWAITING~

Kennigit

Canada19447 Posts

April 18 2008 10:06 GMT

You realize that this is how cloverfield started

lilsusie

3861 Posts

April 18 2008 10:08 GMT

#10

where'd you read that? I can't find any news on it.

Klogon

MURICA15980 Posts

April 18 2008 10:09 GMT

#11

They felt it in New York? I'm in Philly and didn't feel a thing.

EtherealDeath

United States8366 Posts

April 18 2008 10:11 GMT

#12

Im in NC and I didn't feel a thing. I AM on the 5th floor.......hmmm

Damn :-(

baal

10541 Posts

April 18 2008 10:12 GMT

#13

wat...a thread for a silly earthquake? lol ive felt dozens of earthquakes.

Ace

United States16096 Posts

April 18 2008 10:12 GMT

#14

On April 18 2008 19:09 Klogon wrote:
They felt it in New York? I'm in Philly and didn't feel a thing.

I live in NYC and didn't feel it. Maybe someone lied

lilsusie

3861 Posts

April 18 2008 10:13 GMT

#15

On April 18 2008 19:12 baal wrote:
wat...a thread for a silly earthquake? lol ive felt dozens of earthquakes.

It was my first. I feel ... used.

beefhamburger

United States3962 Posts

April 18 2008 10:16 GMT

#16

I'm also in West Lafayette, IN :O and I was planning to wake up early but the stupid earthquake robbed me of the few precious extra minutes that I could have spent sleeping. It just felt like my bed was circling in place.

lilsusie

3861 Posts

April 18 2008 10:17 GMT

#17

I'mma take it is Indiana telling me to get the fuck out and so I shall obey. Just got back to the States and look what happens. I'm leaving this joint.

LonelyMargarita

1845 Posts

April 18 2008 10:18 GMT

#18

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2008qza6.php

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxPvXBa_kwldln7jw_kNT0EsoE1QD90472KG0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone#2008_Earthquake

Felt it in Michigan.

Empyrean

17011 Posts

April 18 2008 10:59 GMT

#19

WTF?

I live in central Indiana, just north of Indianapolis and I didn't feel a thing.

Looking at facebook statuses, though, looks like lots of my friends did.

I guess I'm just dumb :[