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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 2:31 am
It was 4.3 right at 4:00 a.m. -- 'bout the same time as last time, just a few years ago. This is just too weird.
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Cwcoop
Member
04-19-2008
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 6:11 am
We felt it here Color (sth/east burbs). The dog was acting crazy too. Thought we were nuts until we heard about it after getting out of bed.
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 6:33 am
hope there are no injuries?
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 7:11 am
I have a small bird. Her cage is covered during the night. She twittered which she does not do in the middle of the night. It has been downgraded from 4.3 to 3.8. I felt it like last time. I was in bed on my side. My top leg started shaking. I thought "earthquake", but didn't figure it could be again just a few years later.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 7:23 am
Wow! My brother is in Barrington Hills just a few miles away from the center. I'll have to call him and see if they felt it.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 8:25 am
No injuries. Not big enough for that. The last one was April 18, 2008 -- 102nd anniversary of the big San Francisco quake.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 8:38 am
Wow, hope everyone is okay!!! We seem to have a lot of Clubhouse members in Chicago. Crossing my fingers y'all are okay.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 9:17 am
3.8, pah! It's not worth getting out of bed for less than a 5 ;) ;)
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 9:45 am
Yes, Kitt, I was thinking California is probably laughing at our big 3.8. And I'm at least giggling at what I read about the Mid Atlantic states and the snow. Yes, two feet of it is a lot, but you just deal with it. It's part of life in winter. The "antics" they're going through . . . .
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 10:09 am
2 feet of snow here would be the end of the world! You can keep your snow and we'll try to keep the earthquakes - at the end of it all I suspect you'll be better off!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 10:48 am
2 feet of snow would shut us down here and cause all kinds of traffic accidents and tie ups. Not laughing at the 3.8 though, earthquakes can be unnerving no matter how big or not they are.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 10:55 am
It really depends on the depth of the quake, type of fault and then the magnitude. And of course how close you are to the epicenter. I'm sure it woke up quite a few people. And when the shaking is in the dark, especially if the power goes out.. it can be sobering, hmm?
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 10:55 am
It's just very, VERY strange to feel any kind of earthquake in the midwest. First you're confused, then you kind of have to convince yourself that it really is happening, because it's just not in our scope of reference. I thought my cats were romping up and down the stairs in the middle of the night when one hit here a couple of years ago, I was sitting up in bed yelling at them and finally realized that the bed was moving and the whole house was rattling. It was a deep rumbling from the center of the earth-type deal, even though the quake wasn't much bigger than the one Chicago just had. Freaked me out. I'm envying the Atlantic states' snow. It's just crappy here, but we're not snowed in. I'd rather be snowed in any day unless the power goes out, and we're even prepared for that if it happens.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 11:18 am
I am 34 miles from the epicenter. I was in bed, but still awake at 4:00 this morning. I was laying on my side and my top leg started shaking. Again? No, it can't be. (Shaking / vibrating leg is what I felt last time too. That woke me up.) I had talk radio on. About five - ten minutes later they said they were getting tons of calls about an earthquake. Many many callers said they thought a snowplow had plowed into buildings they were in. That's what I thought too. But it was immediately quiet. I could not figure that out. I listened and listened and heard nothing. Earthquake.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 11:35 am
Yep that quiet is usually the lack of birds chirping .. but then at times there can be noise when many car alarms are triggered..
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 2:26 pm
It freaked our a$$es out bigtime!! I thought it was a tornado and that the windows were gonna cave in. It was the oddest, freakiest thing. It was a big boom that shook the house. And sent every critter in our house (human and canine) running into our bed!
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Hypermom
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 2:47 pm
It woke my husband and I up. We thought a snow plow had hit our house!
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Cwcoop
Member
04-19-2008
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 4:21 pm
Julieboo - that's what DH and I thought about the BOOM. We thought it was a snow plow (they are LOUD and very active right now as you can imagine), so snuggled with the pets, and rolled over and went back to sleep. Skootz, as noted above, no injuries - just frazzled nerves for a moment, after the fact. As GAL said, we just aren't used to earthquakes around these parts. I have experienced an earthquake before - when I was actually awake. That was when we lived in Alaska back in '93. Never a fun event to go through. I could never live in Cali - so bless you all that sacrifice the quakes for the great weather.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 6:51 pm
Well it isn't like we live in daily terror or anything. I feel the same about living in tornado alley or places with major hurricane threat and I don't even like the weather in most of those locations.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 2:32 pm
You know if you did feel that quake, you can go to the USGS site and find the listing and enter data for how you experienced it. They map those and gain info from them. At least that is what I do when I feel one.. did today. Thought I felt a quake and sure enough it was a 4.1 about 70 some miles away. I get emails on any quakes in CA 3.0 or higher. The maps are interesting http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci10541957.php for this little one. That one was probably felt by most people at the very site where we met Juju recently. I'd guess Pamy and Rosie felt it, being much closer than I am.
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