Whole lot of shaking going on!!

[Timbuktu]

I live in southern Illinois and it woke me up. I lived in San Fransisco for a year and never had one while I was there.It's funny that I now live in southern Illinois and now I felt one!

The weird thing is is last night was my feeding night and neither of my snakes even came out of their hides to feed. witch is odd because nothing has changed husbandry wise. I was wondering do you think they sensed something was coming? I know they say animals can sense things long before humans but I don't know if earthquakes are one of them? weird stuff.

[ShawnT]

Dang...people in FL felt it!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/18/ill...ake/index.html

[Beardedragon]

I live in GA and it knocked everything off my dresser! Crazy stuff...

[frankykeno]

It's funny because my youngest woke up twice in the night (very unusual for him) and I was up far earlier than normal. I'd just logged on to the computer, having given up any idea of getting back to sleep, when the old house we rent basically shivered. Really no other way to describe it....it was like a long shiver shook the house. I thought at first I was imagining it but I touched the wall beside my computer desk and you could just feel the house vibrating slightly.

[joepythons]

How many of you felt the 5.2 earthquake this morning at 4:37am that originated in southern Illinois?... I always said I could sleep through a tornado, but obviously not an earthquake. The epicenter of this quake is only about 50 miles from me. We just had an aftershock just a few minutes ago...my monitor was shaking back and forth.... I know this isnt the California type quakes..but this just doesn't happen in this area very often...

I never felt a thing .I think you folks were drinking something this morning .We had one back in 1985ish and i was playing basketball and never felt that one either

[MarkS]

Wow, thats really weird. Here in MN we're supposedly living near a large fault line, but it's a very stable one. A few years back I came home from work and noticed that a couple of windows in my brand new addition were cracked. I didn't realize we'd had an earthquake until I heard it on the news that night. It was only a 3 something on the richter scale and I never felt a thing, obviously my windows did though.

Mark

[ev477]

I thought it was a dream this morning when I woke up again, I live in OH and didn't hear anything about it until my class at 1...
Glad to hear no one got hurt and that my dreams aren't that crazy.

[Schlyne]

It's possible that both the quake and the first aftershock woke me up, but otherwise I didn't notice.

[Thor26]

a few years back we had one in seattle and i was on my schools playground alone and i swear the cement was moving like waves it was so AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[reptilefreak]

Didnt feel a thing. Nothing wakes me up.