Friday, April 18, 2008

We slept through it


You'd think we would notice a magnitude 5.2 earthquake with an epicenter only 150 miles to our northeast.
But nope, we slept right through it.
I think most people who were awake around here at 4:36:59 a.m. CDT felt it, put it passed unnoticed at our house.
No cracks in tile or pavement, nothing falling off of shelves, nothing noticeable at all.
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6 comments:

  1. The Untamed PalateFriday, April 18, 2008 at 9:00:00 AM CDT

    It woke Mark, but I slept through most of it. Bobby was sitting in the hall watching the bathroom mirror rattle. It was disorienting, but no local damage was reported.

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  2. The Untamed PalateFriday, April 18, 2008 at 10:54:00 AM CDT

    Second quake at virtually the same epicenter initially measured 4.5 at 11:14 am. Didn't feel this one either. WTF? ;-)

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  3. The OracleFriday, April 18, 2008 at 11:04:00 AM CDT

    Yes, I think I felt it, but I just thought it was my imagination. Obviously, it wasn't very strong.
    Maybe being up on Crowley's Ridge is a good thing when faults start slipping.

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  4. The Untamed PalateFriday, April 18, 2008 at 11:19:00 AM CDT

    I've been giving lessons on the pronunciation of the New MAD-rid fault. It's being pronounced around here like Madrid, Spain. Damn southerners. I'm also using El Do-RAY-do (instead of El Do-RAH-do) as another example of the lazy southern tongue.

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  5. The OracleFriday, April 18, 2008 at 11:29:00 AM CDT

    Well, Hoosiers have a flair for butchering foreign place names too. Like Versailles (Ver-SAYles), and Chili (CHEYE-lie) and Peru (PEE-roo) and Monticello (Monty-SELL-oh).

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  6. The Untamed PalateFriday, April 18, 2008 at 12:12:00 PM CDT

    Touche. How often would you get your ass kicked walking around Indiana saying Versigh and Montichello, though. :-P

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