Oh my gravy! I was awakened this morning at 5:37am, to my 10 year old running down the hall to our bedroom. I knew immediately it was an earthquake, we don't get them often but when we do, you know immediately. He was shaking, my other 2 sons were pretty calm.

It's one of those almost surreal things I guess. They are reporting it's a 5.4 on the Richter Scale.

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Oh Catt, I had just woke up at 4:30(central time)and heard this really strange sound. I honestly thought someone was breaking in. Because I was half asleep, I thought my mind was playing games on me and maybe one of my kids fell out of bed. I checked but they were sound asleep. I continued hearing vibrations and started looking around the house. My photos on the wall were shaking, vibrating. I had no idea what it was until a few minutes ago. I had the news on before taking my girls to school and they were talking about the earthquake in Illinois that some felt right in this area. They never said what time it happened but that had to be what I heard/felt.
As you said, so surreal!

Yikes! I am glad you are okay! How is your 10 year old now? Has he calmed down some...must have been so scary to him. Did it break anything?

(((((HUGS)))) Hope the rest of your day is calmer and NO MORE EARTHQUAKES!

Yep felt it here in southern Indiana. Had just gotten out of the shower and scared the crap out of me! DH had already gone to work. Shook our whole entire house!

my friend in Indianapolis felt it as well..

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It was felt about 2 miles from my place but I didn't feel it. When I heard about it on the news that explained why my cat stopped talking to me about that time.

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DH felt it this morning, but I was asleep and didn't wake up.

We had an earthquake in Texas a couple weeks ago. It was small I think 3.7 or something like that. Weird. I'm glad everyone is OK.

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I sure felt it, so much that it activated my motion sickness.

That was the first one I had ever felt. It was so odd. It woke DH and I both up. I sat straight up in the bed holding the bed. My mind wasn't wrapping around what was going on. DH thought it was a thunderstorm just from the sound it made. The bed just kept shaking, but yet it didn't knock anything over.

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LOL!! Too weird, huh?? I was reading and I thought it was my cat scratching but realized he was asleep nesxt to me. He never even woke up. I told pets were supposed to warn their owners about quakes but he was unimpressed.

My DH was already at the lab and called to tell me he was watching the news at the time and watched it happen there.

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My dog was barking, my windows shook and I didn't know what was going on, I thought it was storming and looked out and seen nothing but dry, I shrugged my shoulders and went back to bed.

I'm not sure if we felt it or not, maybe that's what woke us up, but DH and I were awake when we heard a big "creak" from somewhere in the house. We later heard another one but we never did find anything wrong! I guess we should go outside and check the house from there.

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I hope your son is more calm. I imagine the first time in a quake is scary. I grew up in Southern CA and I can't remember the first one I went thru. I remember that I would routinely stay in bed thru them and usually thought "no big deal" until the big Northridge quake when I was 20. I laid there in the early AM and once things started falling off the wall and walls shock...I got outside. It was 6.7 or 6.8...can't remember exactly and we were about 50 miles away thank goodness

Let's hope that no more quakes happen in your area!

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I was in the Whittier quake. Scariest thing I have ever experienced! That is a pretty strong quake, mattncatt, for your area.

Glad everyone is okay.

I was awake til after 5am so I'm sure if we felt it here, I slept through it. There are some people in the general Atlanta area saying they felt it though, and they're closer to where we lived when the one I felt a few years ago happened.

I live in NW ohio and heard the windows shake while eating breakfast this morning. i just thought it was thunder, until the news lady in indiana paniked a little when her chair was moving. then i knew it was something more than thunder.

Where was the quake centered?

We felt it in Iowa this morning. My teenage son and I were still up. I was trying to go to sleep and I thought I was having some kind of shaking fit but it kept going on and I then decided it wasn't me and talked to my son. He said his bed was shaking too! I got all excited. I called the local news channel and I was the second caller. Pretty excting!!!

Here's the link to our local news station. NewsChannel 6 WPSD - NewsChannel 6 WPSD

It was east of St. Louis. They are saying West Salem, were ever that's at.

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I didn't feel anything here in Ohio but bf got off work early because of it.He said all the big companies had to quit early because there is a power shortage due to the earthquake and they don't have enough power to run everything.

tag1114, I am in Wilson County TN - fairly close to you I think - and my reaction was almost identical to yours! I was preparing to go to work around 4:30 and thought I heard high winds - felt the house shake - but looked out and no tree limbs swaying or guide wires moving. Truly felt like I was going crazy! Checked to see if I had the washer or any machine running - negative - but had to go into work so I forgot about it. Sometimes we forget the New Madrid fault may hit us with a big one someday!

Wow I am glad everyone is OK really scary trying to get in touch with some cousins in IL who I think may have been in part of the area hit but I get an all lines are busy message when I call.. Will try in the morning I guess.

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I live in Clinton, IA and some people in town felt it, and others didn't. A lady I work with said it shook her bed, and her blinds!

Wow yall, I would have flipped! I sure don't weant anything unexpected like that! And here I am thinking I am well informed, and I haven't heard a thing about it!

A lot of people here felt it, but DH and I slept right through it. He heard that bricks were falling off of some buildings in Chicago.

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I would never know if an earthquake hit our house .I live on the corner of a busy intersection and everytime a big truck goes by it feels like an earthquake.

I was fast asleep in my bed and did not feel anything. However Mayson was apparently up he came in and woke me to tell me his bed and the computer was shaking.

ROFL ~ gotta love those pets!!!!

Well I felt the second round yesterday and I have to say I wasn't asleep and didn't just shrug my shoulders I had a more dazed and confused look on my face and then realized why my body felt like my soul was going to trying to jump out of it to free itself I laughed when it was over though. It was different.