Unusual 5.4 Earthquake wakes up residents in Illinois this morning

Well, this must have been the same thing my wife was telling me about here in Memphis that she felt at about 4:30. She is a light sleeper. Most of the time, my snoring is enough of a quake to wake her up. LOL! Like your husband, I never felt it. For years there has been talk of a big one going to hit because of the New Madrid fault

I live bout an hour south of Chicago near the IN state line and didn't feel a thing. Then again, I'm a very deep sleeper. The smoke alarms don't even wake me up. My dog, however, was making the weirdest noises when I woke up briefly to go to the bathroom but didn't really register thru the fog that something was amiss.

I live in Olney, Illinois. The epicenter of the quake was about 16 miles South of me. Woke me up (this is the second time in 20 years or so) wondering just what the (expletive deleted) was going on. Sat there for a minute or two; didn't hear any wind blowing, no other noises, so I went back to sleep. Got up at 7:00 and it's all over the radio and TV, I've got messages in my e-mail about it and all. We live on the edge of the New Madrid fault; it's not a real active area; we get the (very) occasional tremblor, but not anything like this. The last one of this magnitude here was back in the 60's; I barely remember it, but I was very young then. The one that woke me previously was back in the mid 80's- can't remember what the magnitude of it was, but the epicenter was about 15 miles East of us that time.

Yeah, I was awakened about 5:36am this morning. I thought my husband was rubbing his foot on the mattress or shaking himself. I told him to stop shaking the bed. He said I'm not but I feel it. He asked if it could be the washer shaking the trailer? So I get up thinking maybe it was storming outside. Nope quiet as a mouse. So I turned on the TV and found out it was an earthquake. The only damage I have about is some bricks fell off a building in Loiusville Ky.

I live in Saint Louis, MO and I felt the tremors. It felt like someone was shaking my bed hard. I didn't hear anything else moving, but there were some dogs and birds outside making noise. I didn't see anyone run outside and it didn't appear that there could have been an earthquake, so I tried to convince myself that I just had a bad dream. I tried to find some news about it on 5 of the different news stations and didn't see anything. Right before I tried to fall back asleep about 25 minutes later, I happened to look and see that there was breaking news on KMOV.

I think it is an event we must all be ready for! I know we must be ready in California, as we have mild earthquakes almost every day! The big ones above 4.0 are the ones to look out for! Always be prepared, that is my motto!

I did not. I live in Mississippi. I was asleep at the time though. I was at my optometrist office today though and he said he felt it. It rattle a few things on their shelves.