The Earth Moved This Morning!

OH!!!! NO WAY!!! I am between you and Illinois and I didn't feel anything..About what time was this??

OMG. It must have been really terrible for you. I have felt it several times since the place where i live is prone to earthquakes. But thankfully nothing major has happened yet , only some mild tremors but i am really scared now as my city lies within the range of the epicentre and also my building is very old and worn out. ~pinks~

Yes I have a couple of times and it is very scary I have to admit we never used to get them in the UK but recently they are hitting us which is a bit strange

Just recently we had a small earthquake here in the UK. It was very strange, but not the first one I have experienced here. This is the second time my house has been shaken up. The first time I was in bed reading around 12.45 at night when the bed jolted and I felt the house shake. The second time was around 1am when the doors in the house rattled. I must admit, the first time had been really worried as I thought the house was about to collapse, the second one was no where near as bad and I didn't actually think it was an earthquake until I saw the news in the morning.

i didn't felt the shake because of the distance between us but i heard the news and know from other mylotters who happen post their experience during the quake. i also experience this while on bed, what i did was to observe if some of our appliances and kitchen utensils will fall down but it suddenly stop and the after shock followed. we always experience quake here because we are near to the fault line between Philippines and Japan.

Welcome to California... grins. I have lived in Calfornia all of my life and have experienced lots of earthquakes. Most of them have been about 3.5 or so and at that level sometimes I have thought that they were heavy trains going by as I live close to the train tracks. I remember the Northridge Earthquake in the 90s. I was in bed when it happened and felt the bed shake. I then heard about the destruction that it wrought and was part of a DMAT team which was formed to deal with the psychological aspects of the disaster. I was deployed to the Holy Cross Hospital where one floor collapsed on another and heard stories told by survivors of that quake... They talked about having a feeling of knowing. One had gone to a store to get boxes for her dishes and plates saying to herself, "If I pack them this way they will survive a quake coming from this direction." And heard of one woman's husband who felt the quake coming and wanted to be outside and away from all the buildings. I heard too about mothers and fathers and their children so scared by the quake that they slept together on the floor rather than being in their own bedrooms. I saw one office at the hospital which showed me the power of a quake... I saw the computers that flew across the room, the books that fell off their shelves, the drawers that had not been locked and that opened spilling their contents on the floor. The earthquake caused a lot of damage at the hospital... The people there were without lights, water, etc. for sometime. The hospital staff had to carry the patients down from the floor that collapsed in body bags in the dark as they could not use the elevators. I was glad that I was not at that hospital then. I, myself, survived a few aftershocks in Santa Monica where I was staying in a high rise hotel. I had just gotten asleep when it came. A high rise is not the place to be in an earthquake... You really can feel it there.

I live in Akron, Ohio and at 5:39am I was about to shut down my computer when I started to sway back and forth and got scared cause for a second there I thought I was having a sugar reaction, that's sorta like I get when a reaction is just starting, then I noticed the computer was also swaying back and forth too, then my cat, and the bad and dresser and I said to my self: I'll be darn, we are having an earthquake! I put on tv but there wasn't anything about it but about 10 minuts later it was all over the tv. They were all talking about it! Years ago while on my honeymoon in California, there were small earthquakes and after shocks all the time, so after I realized it wasn't ME, I knew what it was!

my first experience with earthquake was confused and shocked. it was not hard earthquake which i ever felt but it was my first time. i was lying down in my bed and suddenly felt something shackinng me in my bed and little bit dizzy by feeling that. i just unrealized that it was earthquake till i heard news on television. well, it was scarry enough for me, my friend

Yes I have, there was one here in Montreal, and it was pretty scary. The wall unit was shaky and I could feel the vibrations on the floor. I did not know if this was the beginning of the end or what, but it passed pretty quickly though.

wow! i never feel that, here in kuwait, idont know if still here also, what time it happen.

I lived in Vancouver when I was young, and there was an earthquake there once, I was in my teens at the time. It started in Alaska and traveled down. It shook a few of the dishes, and I slept through most of it. So earthquakes do not bother me unless they of the destroy San Francisco variety. I was surprised when I heard of the earthquake in Illinois. It is not like it is near the East coast, so if it happens there, an earthquake can happen anyplace.

I experienced many earthquakes when i lived in Mindoro, Philippines because it is there where the so-called ring of fire or volcanoes beneath the ocean can be found. Occurences were common that it felt like it was just ordinary as I stayed there longer.

I feel for you. I experience intensity 6++ Earthquake mayn years ago when I was still a kid. I was alone watching TV and suddenly the couch moved back and forth and it took about a few seconds before I realized it weas an earthquake. I run outside as my instict told me to and saw trees sway from left to right like there was a huge wind blowing them. I had trouble sleeping for a few days because fearing for another big one.

I was in Illinois this morning, and felt an earthquake, and I felt 2 aftershocks lol. The actual earthquake lasted around a minute, and I was like... what the hell is going on lol. The aftershocks were just seccond long trembles, that I didn't even feel. But ya, I was pretty creeped out XD

I felt it here too, it woke me as a picture fell to the floor. Having lived in California for awhile I am use to them, but what surprised me was the aftershocks that I felt at 11 this morning, hours after the earthquake, most quakes I have experienced, the after shock happens with-in the first couple of hours.

I hav e felt earthquakes, mild ones, when I lived in San Diego a million years ago.(1974-1975). I also had friends that had actually lived through quakes and it was more than I was interested in trying.

That must have been scary! I had a similar experience but on a smaller scale. Years ago I was home alone and I felt a vibration and all my knick-knacks rattled and shook, but it only lasted a few seconds. I thought to myself that it had felt like an earthquake, or what I figured an earthquake would feel like. It wasn't until the next day that I heard there had been a mild earthquake in the Reading, Pa. and it had been felt miles away. Not many other people in my immediate area had felt or heard anything so I figure our house was direction over the fault line - or whatever you'd call it. I can't imagine how some people in California are casual about it! Annie

I read about the eathquake in the newspaper and was thinking who do I know in that area. I thought well, there's someone on myLot - yours in the only discussion I've seen so far. We had an earthquake in Ohio - we lived near Cleveland about 10 years ago. It was the weirdest thing. I was talking to a friend in Pennsylvania and first I felt the shake and then a very short time after she felt it. We didn't even know it was an earthquake until her husband came in the room to tell her.

Hi worldwise, I heard about the earthquake and I'm sure it must have been a scary experience. I've never experienced one, hope there is no great damage. Blessings.

I live in ohio and we felt a little tremer this morning too.Crazy, when I you think of earthquakes I think of california not indiana, illnois.It was kind of scarey I wouldn't like to repeat it eather.But it was just a little shake compared to what you guys got.Hope all is well and good luck.