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April 18th, 2008, 02:58 AM
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Super Mommy
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I know you Cali girlies are probably used to this, but here in Indiana we aren't!!! This morning while I was browsing through JM, I started to notice my chair was moving. Then the water in my water bottle on the desk was moving. It only last for 30 secs. maybe a minute tops. I ran into the bedroom and asked Paul if he felt it. He did too. Then the guy on the radio comes on and said, "If you just woke up and felt like the world was moving, well it was. We had a minor earthquake." SCARIES!!!
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April 18th, 2008, 03:04 AM
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Mega Super Mommy
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Wow!!!
I felt my bed shaking this morning but I thought it was DH. Now that I see that Michigan felt the quake as well....crazy!
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April 18th, 2008, 03:15 AM
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Mega Super Mommy
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Indiana
Posts: 1,130
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I'm here in Indiana too and the earthquake was felt around here as well. I was in the shower, so I had no clue as to what was going on, but reports on the news said that several people in our area felt the movement. Crazy!
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April 18th, 2008, 05:07 AM
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Platinum Supermommy
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OMG it shook and rattled my entire house for 90 seconds this morning!!!!! It scared the living daylights out of me! It centered only 90 miles away from me (I'm in Terre Haute, IN-- it centered in West Salem, IL) and measured 5.2-5.4 (I've heard both measurements on two different news broadcasts).
How close is everyone else who felt the quake from West Salem, IL?
They're saying it was felt well over 300 miles away!
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April 18th, 2008, 05:10 AM
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Veteran
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Ohio
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Folks here in Dayton, Ohio have felt it too.....not me.. I was fast asleep...but that is the talk of the town!
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April 18th, 2008, 05:13 AM
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Platinum Supermommy
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Location: USA
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LOL I was in a deep sleep and it woke me up! My heart was pounding so darn fast!!!!
Was I the closest one to it?
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April 18th, 2008, 05:32 AM
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Platinum Supermommy
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Location: Orlando-ish Florida
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OMG~~~ I hate earthquakes, give me hurricanes any day- at least I know when one is coming!
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April 18th, 2008, 05:35 AM
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Mega Super Mommy
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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we had a minor one here too  i was asleep though and didn't feel it LOL
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April 18th, 2008, 05:52 AM
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Mega Super Mommy
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Location: Montgomery, TX
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*shudders* scary! I hate earthquakes and tornados...like Erin give me a Hurricane any day over those two!!! Glad you only got a little jiggle!!!!!
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April 18th, 2008, 06:05 AM
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Platinum Supermommy
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Location: Illinois
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I'm in Southern Illinois and felt it, too. It was actually centered in a town about an hour from me, over by Indiana. I had no idea what it was when it first started, since obviously I'm not very alert at 4:30 in the morning, but later realized that's what it was. It was crazy! I know we've had some smaller ones, but nothing that big (5.4).
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April 18th, 2008, 06:06 AM
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Mega Super Mommy
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Location: Illinois
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okay i seriously thought i was dreaming this morning!!!!!! omg! I woke up at like 3:30am or 4:30 am and my bed was shaking, our whole house was shaking, the stuff on my dresser was shaking and making noise and it lasted for like 2 minutes and then it was over....i asked dh while he was sleeping if it was an earthquake and he said no! omg, so creepy!
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April 18th, 2008, 06:06 AM
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Platinum Supermommy
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Location: Illinois
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Was I the closest one to it?[/b]
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I'm probably one of the closest one's. West Salem is about an hour east of me. I'm actually in Salem, IL, which a lot of people get confused with West Salem. It's 2 totally different places!
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April 18th, 2008, 06:16 AM
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Mega Super Mommy
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OMG it shook and rattled my entire house for 90 seconds this morning!!!!! It scared the living daylights out of me! It centered only 90 miles away from me (I'm in Terre Haute, IN-- it centered in West Salem, IL) and measured 5.2-5.4 (I've heard both measurements on two different news broadcasts).
How close is everyone else who felt the quake from West Salem, IL?
They're saying it was felt well over 300 miles away![/b]
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heres the article
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/18/illinois....uake/index.html
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April 18th, 2008, 06:26 AM
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Mommy to Andrew & Luke
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I saw that on the news this morning! How frightening!
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April 18th, 2008, 06:44 AM
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Super Mommy
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Location: Newport News, Virginia
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I saw it on the news this morning here in Virginia and wondered how everyone up there was. Glad to see you guys are ok.
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April 18th, 2008, 06:46 AM
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Mega Super Mommy
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I'm in IL (lol user name) and it woke us from sleep...
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April 18th, 2008, 06:49 AM
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Mega Super Mommy
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I'm in the southwest suburbs of Chicago (from what they said, about 250 miles away from West Salem), but I was sound asleep and didn't feel a thing.
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April 18th, 2008, 06:54 AM
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Platinum Supermommy
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Location: Richmond, VA
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I heard about it this morning too...I remember the one in the 80s when I was growing up in Indiana...crazy! Glad everybody's ok!
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April 18th, 2008, 07:15 AM
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Platinum Supermommy
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Location: USA
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Was I the closest one to it?[/b]
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I'm probably one of the closest one's. West Salem is about an hour east of me. I'm actually in Salem, IL, which a lot of people get confused with West Salem. It's 2 totally different places!
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Just like here in Indiana... Terre Haute and West Terre Haute are two totally different places!
Anyhow-- I'm 90 miles from West Salem, so you would be closer... by about 30 miles.
Just curious
I didn't realize there were so many of us so close to each other!!! 
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OMG it shook and rattled my entire house for 90 seconds this morning!!!!! It scared the living daylights out of me! It centered only 90 miles away from me (I'm in Terre Haute, IN-- it centered in West Salem, IL) and measured 5.2-5.4 (I've heard both measurements on two different news broadcasts).
How close is everyone else who felt the quake from West Salem, IL?
They're saying it was felt well over 300 miles away![/b]
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heres the article
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/18/illinois....uake/index.html
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Yeah, I've read a couple local news articles on it as well. It was also on our news this morning, then I caught clips on the Chicago and Indianapolis news as well.
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April 18th, 2008, 08:42 AM
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Mega Super Mommy
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Location: Las Vegas
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wow - that's nuts!!! I'm glad you are all ok.
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