WEST SALEM, Ill. -- Residents across the Midwest were awakened Friday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage.
The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered six miles from West Salem, Ill., and 45 miles from Evansville, Ind. It was felt in such distant cities as Milwaukee, Des Moines, Iowa, and Atlanta, nearly 400 miles to the southeast.
Several aftershocks -- the largest measuring 4.5 -- rumbled through the region hours later.
''It shook our house where it woke me up,'' David Behm of Philo, 10 miles south of Champaign, said of the quake. ''Windows were rattling, and you could hear it. The house was shaking inches. For people in central Illinois, this is a big deal. It's not like California.''More on the story.
It is certainly global warming...
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Please let me know if Mr. Kitty is ok and if TGCN is ok too. I don't have many friends in Illinois but I do have Mr. Kitty, TGCN, Randall and the Little Angel. I already wrote Randall and the Little Angel but I'm worried about my blog friends. I don't know the areas of Illinois and that's why I'm concerned.
Jackie, we're all okay. It was just a little one. Having lived between the San Andreas Fault and the Pacific Ocean, believe me it was small, it lasted about 5 or ten seconds. No injuries, no deaths anywhere. My native California girlfriends would not have put down their coffee cups or cigarettes or even bothered to get out of their chairs. I'm in the sand dunes of Indiana and it did shudder a bit. In California, it would've felt like you're on a train, the back and forth would be more marked.
Thanks, Anon for the info. I know that the quake was borderlined Illnois and Indiana. Thansk for pointing that out.
I am fine but Mama slept through the earthquake. A few things on top of the refrigerator moved but nothing fell off and broke. I got exited, upset, meowed, and woke up Mama. She thought I was being a bad kitty until she woke up a second time to watch the morning news.
My buddy the lazy, older cat slept through all of it, including the TV news.
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