Uhh.... Earthquake?

I think they had an earthquake in New Madrid or something. The whole house shook. I felt my couch moving a bit. Usually, traffic makes things bounce up and down, but this was more side to side. That and I heard the hutch in the dining room shaking...so that meant that the whole house was shaking. That was freaky. I don't remember ever feeling anything like that before.

I'm on the phone with my parents. Apparently there was another one early in the morning...around four-thirty in the morning.

[ETA: Okay...this is what happens when you wake up late and don't pay attention to the news. They had an earthquake in southern Illinois at about 4:30 this morning. What I felt now was an aftershock. And it's not traffic because doomsey and another one of his friends in Urbana felt it too].

AIM Conversation with doomsey about the earthquake

10:16 AM
nekosensei: Hey....are we having an earthquake?

nekosensei: A small one?

doomsey: yes, apparently

nekosensei: The whole house shook

nekosensei: Jesus...I'm going to be sick

nekosensei: So...you felt it too?

doomsey: yes, and so did nick

doomsey: down in urbana

nekosensei: Thought it was traffic, but it was a sideways motion...

Earthquake

My friends and I weren't imagining things. The shaking that I felt around 10:15 was a 4.5 magnitude aftershock from this morning's earthquake.

So...I guess this was the first earthquake that I was ever aware of or awake during. It was interesting...