If you did not feel it yourselves, I am sure you heard that we had an earthquake this morning. It measured 5.2 and the epicenter "was 7 miles from West Salem, IL and 41 miles north northwest of Evansville, IN" (according to wanetv.com). I heard a loud noise coming from our bathroom a little after 5:30 am. I was freaked out, so I woke Doug up. He got up, went into the bathroom, and said, "It's hail!" (he wasn't quite awake yet, and it sounded like hail hitting the windows to him). By that time, I could feel the ground shaking. I said, "Hail??? No, the ground is shaking!" I was still in bed, and the bed was really shaking. The sound we heard had been the mirror and possibly the shower doors in the bathroom shaking. Afterwards, I quickly turned on the tv in our bedroom. The morning news was on, and they said we had a tremor that was being looked into. Then, around 11 am, I got up to feed Maddie. I was sitting in the rocker feeding her, when I noticed the pictures on her wall beside me shaking. When she was done eating, I checked wanetv.com and they said there was an aftershock around ll am. I remember learning in middle school that we live along a fault line. My 7th grade year, it was believed that we might have an earthquake, so we had earthquake drills at school. Of course, we never had one, and I have not thought about it since then. I hope we never see a large earthquake like the ones they had in California!
8 years ago
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