I didn't feel this earthquake but I definitely felt the one in the Bay Area in October 89...I worked in the financial district and lived in the Marina district. For those of you who think earthquakes should not be a common occurrence in the Midwest, there is a major fault running right through. Back when Thomas Jefferson was president, an earthquake centered in Missouri knocked him out of bed in Virginia. Any place can have an earthquake, it's just plates shifting beneath the surface.

it must have baeen a very little aftershock because i felt nothing or heard nothing. i was in the earthquake in california, in the late 60s or very early 70s and that one was a 7.3, and believe me i dont ever want that feeling again, our apt. building cracked down the middle, and our balcony fell off, to this day it makes me sick to walk across an open balcony in an apt. building, and i panic if i have to go into a parking garage. so im glad i didnt notice it .

My daughter and I felt it too....

I was half way awakened by my bedroom window rattling but we hear that all of the time since we live by the airport and the low fling planes always make them rattle. But this was different, I didn't hear a plane and my bed seemed to be shaking too. My first thought was that it was a earthquake, but then I thought no I am only dreaming or imagining it. It wasn't until I was in the car listing to WJVL when I learned that it indeed was a earthquake.

I haven't felt a earthquake I don't think since I was little and that was when
Mt.St. Helens erupted and we had felt aftershock from that.

I've lived in California since 1985 and have never felt an earthquake. I guess I should consider myself lucky, but I somehow feel gyped.

We're between fault lines in Sacramento, but most people in this region feel them when the epicenter is in Bay Area, North Coast or in the Sierra. But not me. I even missed the Loma Prieta Quake in 1989, which everyone else noticed.

I guess I have to move back to Janesville if I want to feel one.

It sure woke me up! My clock said 4:44am when I realized something weird was going on. The bed was vibrating and the metal handles on the end tables were rattling. I heard the rumble too, even over the fan we run at night. Everyone else slept though it. How weird!!!

I woke up around 4:40 this morning to a tapping noise coming from an item on a single shelf in my bedroom. Nothing else in the house was moving. I had NO idea what was causing it... It continued for about 10 seconds and stopped. I thought it wierd, and went back to bed, only to get to work this morning and hear of the earthquake. I live in Powers Lake, WI. CRAZY!

I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel the sky tum-bl-in down, tum-bl-in down.....

I felt it! Actually, that's the reason I turned on my computer this morning because it jolted me. I live out by Lake Koshkonong, and I thought something with the lake was causing it. I initially panicked and thought somebody jumped into bed! But then the bed kept moving ever so slightly. I was hyper aware after that initial jolt awake, so I felt the very slight rumbles after that.

I lived in CA for 2 years and never felt an earthquake until now.

Although I was up, I didn't feel anything and I'm not too far from the five points area. It's shocking though that the midwest would get an earthquake!

I thought a train was going by at first (I'm near Five Points), but I usually hear those. This was a rumble at the lowest level of awareness. My desk has a little sway in it normally and that was what I sensed first. Unlike thunder or trains, though, there was an oscillation that was shaking the desk and chair back and forth.