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Posted on 04-18-2008 at 08:32am
Filed Under (Events & Observances) by Jim Voorhies on 04-18-2008

So did any of you feel the earthquake this morning? I did. It was around 4:30 this morning and it shook the whole house. I got up and looked out the windows but didn’t see Godzilla so I went back to bed. Later I found out what it was. Very strange. The epicenter was in southern Illinois, around 130 miles East of St. Louis. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/18/illinois.earthquake/index.html

More: Tennessean article; Corey Webb; This Is LaVergne; Newscoma; Malia (didn’t feel it); Klinde

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Comments

Claudia on 18 April, 2008 at 9:11 am #

oh my god! we did! here in brentwood! we wondered what it was… like a little vibration for about 10 solid seconds or so. so weird. i forgot all about it until i read this.


Klinde on 18 April, 2008 at 9:20 am #

I felt it too if you wanna link to me and my opinion of it…

My second quake… :)


Kathy T. on 18 April, 2008 at 9:21 am #

I just got an email from my cousin in southern Indiana - about 45 minutes from the epicenter. It woke up her whole house - dog barking, kids screaming, etc. But they’re safe and sound.


fluffernutter on 18 April, 2008 at 9:24 am #

I can’t believe you guys felt it! I’m usually a light sleeper, and I am usually up by 5 a.m. anyway, and I completely missed it.


Jim Voorhies on 18 April, 2008 at 9:27 am #

My bladder had already woken me up. :)


Sara on 18 April, 2008 at 9:31 am #

I felt it because I was awake for no good reason. I knew exactly what it was but was confused since I never expected to feel a tremor in the South. I used to live on the Ring of Fire and on the West Coast. Just a little surreal. Didn’t know there was a fault close by, but I do now!


Claudia on 18 April, 2008 at 9:40 am #

klinde’s account on her blog is what i thought too. i thought it was one of the kitties scratching while on a piece of furniture…


Sean Braisted on 18 April, 2008 at 9:41 am #

If it did reverberate out in Donelson, I slept right through it…though I generally sleep through big storms, so it wouldn’t surprise me if my apartment rumbled a bit.


nm on 18 April, 2008 at 9:42 am #

I slept through it. I grew up in St. Louis, and you get used to earthquakes there.


Lesley on 18 April, 2008 at 9:48 am #

I still kinda think you people are nuts. Ha! But, hey, just now I felt a tremor. And I’m 100% certain it was those jerks over at Nashville West blasting.


Kathy on 18 April, 2008 at 10:49 am #

My office is in the airport area we think we just felt a few aftershocks - we are on the 7th floor and our building slightly swayed…we checked for planes landing/taking off (get used to that kind of stuff over here) and didn’t see anything.


Sharon Cobb on 18 April, 2008 at 12:28 pm #

I was wide awake…blogging.
That should serve as a cautionary tale to all of you since I didn’t notice it at all!
heh!


I slept right through it… « GingerSnaps on 18 April, 2008 at 12:38 pm #

[…] was felt here in our area by many folks.  Alas, I slept right through it.  Not that I’m complaining, I’m not sure what […]


Bay Area Brittney on 18 April, 2008 at 2:10 pm #

Hahahaha.


Katherine Coble on 18 April, 2008 at 2:12 pm #

Like Sharon I was wide awake. Like Sharon I felt nothing.

Perhaps I am too fat for the vibrations to reach my buttbone.


Katherine Coble on 18 April, 2008 at 2:13 pm #

@BAB

You think you’re so smooth, dontcha!?


Bay Area Brittney on 18 April, 2008 at 2:14 pm #

I haven’t felt even a single tremor since moving, though we supposedly experience 3-4 a week on average. My Mom called me this morning to tell me she felt it shake the whole house. :)


Jim Voorhies on 18 April, 2008 at 2:19 pm #

Last time I visited San Francisco I read in the morning paper as the plane was taking off that I’d been there through 13 earthquakes that week. Never felt one of them.


Katherine Coble on 18 April, 2008 at 2:31 pm #

Maybe it’s just that our sex lives are so good we’re used to feeling the earth move. We think nothing of it.


Jackson Miller on 18 April, 2008 at 3:04 pm #

I have always wanted to feel an earthquake. Every time I am on the west coast I have a secret desire for a small (but not too small) quake. weird huh?

I slept through it :(


Jim Voorhies on 18 April, 2008 at 3:10 pm #

today was the anniversary of the big san francisco earthquake. Brittney leaves here to go there and we have an earthquake. Coincidence?


Southern Beale on 18 April, 2008 at 3:11 pm #

A friend in Forest HIlls felt it this morning, but I slept right through.

My husband claims to have felt it … but at 11:30 last night! Since we have since learned it was at 4:30 am I’m going to chock that one up to really bad indigestion.


Southern Beale on 18 April, 2008 at 3:12 pm #

I have always wanted to feel an earthquake. Every time I am on the west coast I have a secret desire for a small (but not too small) quake. weird huh?

I have been in several. They are kind of fun … as long as they are small! When stuff starts flying out of the cabinets, that’s when it becomes NOT fun.


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