Earthquake!

[innerslytherin]

We just had an earthquake! I was sitting down and Mom was in bed and Dad was in the garage, and I jumped up and ran out into the hallway and Merlin was flipping out, staring around him with wide eyes. It was actually a 5.4 magnitude with the epicenter in southern Illinois, about 200 miles away. Merlin is still freaked out fifteen minutes later.

That was the second earthquake I've ever felt here in Indiana.


http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/38.40.-89.-87.php
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/at00851141.php

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[innerslytherin]

It's funny, two people I know said it woke them up from a dead sleep. I didn't feel it that strongly, though it was absolutely unmistakeable what it was.