I just survived my first earthquake

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Hehe, I survived my first earthquake this morning, and I wrote a blog about my first Earthquake experience in michigan

Heard of a quake on the New Madrid fault. Was this it? Sure glad you are okay. As a reformed Cali, I have survived several good ones.

Glad to hear you made it thru o.k. I'm off to read your blog about your experience.
Biggest one I'v been thru was a 7.9 from the Denali Fault back in Nov of 2002. I'v been thru lots of smaller ones when I lived in Calif. but this one was HUGE to me.Kinda cool in its own way, also because there were no injuries, people here build for it and expect them, this is "The Rim of Fire" after all. Lots of volcanos and earthquakes.

Ah yes, I sorta miss the tremors we got in Japan. Never experienced anything devastating and I don't know what the highest register on the rictor scale or whatever was, but had some pretty scary shakedowns.

I wonder if they felt it in Tennessee...

Oooh, earthquakes... don't know if I love them or hate them, but living in a very shaky, volcanic part of New Zealand we get them a lot. They're usually ok though; everything's built for them here so you're usually pretty safe. They're a strange feeling though aren't they? Was this one a up-and-down shake or a side-to-side, swaying shake? Glad you're ok!!

We had that same earthquake here in central Indiana. I was barely awake when it started (around 5:30 AM) and it lasted for about fourty seconds. My entire bed was shaking (it's not a small bed either!). At first I thought I was having a seizure until my mom ran down to my room, wanting me to stand under the doorway. That earthquake was a 5.2. We had a rather large aftershock around 11:40 AM earlier that was a 4.5. And we've been having a lot of tiny ones as well. Ironically, we had a tiny one as I was typing this message! (I'm not kidding!) I've only been in one other earthquake here in Indy and that was back in 2004. It was a pretty small one, but it was enough to wake me up.

Wow, what an experience. The 'earthquakes' we occasionally get in Britain pale in comparison to the ones that you people living in far-flung distant countries get. The only earthquake I've ever felt was about 7 years ago when I was in Manchester. I was sitting down in a chair and felt the floor shake for a few seconds and that was it. A few houses in the area lost a roof tile or two, so a couple of homeowners got upset and tried to claim damages.

Then, this February, a tiny town called Market Rasen got a bit of a facelift, but that's it for earthquakes in Britain. Our sorry excuses for plate tectonics can't be bothered to give us more than an early morning knock every now and then. We should count ourselves lucky, really.

I live across the river from Louisville, KY and the quake woke me up in the middle of a dream. I thought it was a freak hailstorm from the way the windows were rattling. It felt like it lasted for about a minute, then I went back to sleep. I didn't know it was an earthquake until I caught the news a few hours later. The biggest aftershock was around 11:15 am at the same location and was a magnitude 4.6.

The quakes happened on the Wabash Fault which is an offshoot of the New Madrid fault, according to the news reports. The first one was felt in a dozen states.

One of the local meteorologists got a nasty message on his blog asking why he didn't predict the earthquake the night before.

Here's a news link: 5.2 magnitude earthquake rocks Kentuckiana; aftershocks jolt region again

The earthquake woke me up this morning. The whole house was loudly shaking. I stared at the ceiling and wondered if it was going to fall on me! My younger brother, who sleeps upstairs came down and asked Mom if she'd felt it. She had-but thought one of the pets was scratching underneath her bed! We immediately called Dad, who was at work, and he hadn't felt a thing! It was defititely an experience! Oh, and I was so surprised that our cat, dog, and poultry didn't make a big fuss. Kitty was sleeping with me and wasn't fazed at all.
LOL, I didn't get to bed until 1 a.m last night...because of all things, I had a CERT ( Community Emergency Response Teams) meeting and had to work afterwards. Earthquakes were one of the farthest things from our minds last night...but I bet we talk about them plenty when we meet again in six weeks
Oh, I'm in northeast Indiana.

I just moved back to my native land, Cali, and I can't wait to experience an earthquake! I've only experienced big ones when I was too young to remember what it felt like.