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[z987k]

4:36am CDT, earthquake in central Illinois. I couldn't figure out what the **** was happening for a second until the whole building was shaking. Cool stuff.
Waiting for the usgs to update this so I can see the magnitude. Probably real small.

edit: wow! it was a 5.4! located at 38.481°N, 87.826°W with a depth of 5km. which is [ame="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=38.481%C2%B0N,+87.826%C2%B0W&jsv=107&ie=UTF8&ll=38.471063,-87.83123&spn=0.184931,0.32135&z=12&iwloc=addr"]here[/ame].

more info here: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/nmhwb0418a.php

 

[Ice9]

It woke me up in NE Indiana! That was crazy, I wasn't quite sure what the heck was going on.

 

[Mustangj]

yep. didn't feel a thing.

 

[z987k]

I'm wondering if there was any damage. "The largest historical earthquake in the region (magnitude 5.4) damaged southern Illinois in 1968."

This was a 5.4 as well.

 

[stever]

I woke up and heard something rattling, at first I thought it was the fax machine going nuts so I walked over to it I realized it was the picture on the wall. I grabbed it to make it stop then i could feel the wall shaking then it really ramped up and the whole house was swaying. By that time I was like wtf.. earthquake so I immediately thought of my family in New Madrid Missouri and hoped they didn't just get wiped off the map. So much for getting any sleep after that.

 

[Evan!]

This marks the beginning of the end. What you experienced are the grumblings from the Illinois-Iowa-Wisconsin supervolcano. I wouldn't want to be living on this continent when it finally does its thing...

 

[livewir]

Dog woke us up at 4:30 barking like hell. Windows shaking and what not.

Looked out the window and you just saw lights popping on all the way down the street. Pretty interesting experience.

 

[EdWort]

Sorry guys, I was just testing my Super Conductor Yeast Rousing Machine and things got a little out of hand.

On a good note, your fermenting beers will attenuate better and the batches that are bottle carbing, will be better carbed now. Ya'll can thank me later.

 

[BierMuncher]

I was enjoying my 4:30AM daily constitution and just chalked it up to too much fiber...

Then when the kids came running out of their bedrooms and I heard my glass on the bathroom counter rattling...I realized it wasn't (just) the broccoli.

 

[cubbies]

I felt it in west st louis county. Enough to wake me up, but otherwise pretty weak. Nothing fell off the walls or anything.

 

[keiths]

It woke me up this moring the whole house was shaking! I have lived here all my life and have never felt one before. southern Mi. (coldwater)

 

[scottthorn]

I was about 60 miles west of the epicenter and slept through it.

 

[FlyingHorse]

The morning radio shows had lots of Chicagoland callers who felt it. I didn't.

Been through a few in the past, anywhere from a 3.0 in PA (which you wouldn;t really feel, except we were right at the epicenter) to a few 5.0-5.5ers in the Bay Area. I was (fortunately) out of town for the '89 Loma Prieta quake, which was ~10 miles from where I lived. Came home to find my apartment trashed (though building still standing), and neighbors said the quake had actually caused mini-tsunamis of water to come flying out of the swimming pool and into some of the garden level apartments.

Very unnerving. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

 

[EdWort]

I was enjoying my 4:30AM daily constitution and just chalked it up to too much fiber...

Please! Tell us the basement brewery is OK as well as your precious inventory!

 

[BierMuncher]

Please! Tell us the basement brewery is OK as well as your precious inventory!

No damage done the the epicenter of my house.

Though I did go down to check and some krausen seemed to have dropped in my Willamette Blonde carboys.

Maybe I'll brew up a 5.4% Pale Ale tonight in honor of the event. I was going to do a cream ale anyway tonight.

 

[livewir]

Just felt an aftershock in Downtown STL. This is going to be an interesting day.

 

[Ice9]

Aftershock was felt in NE, IN. My co-workers SWMBO said that computer monitors were shaking on the second floor of their office here in FT. Wayne, IN.

 

[vav]

Didnt feel it.

Of course, i sleep like a rock.