Earthquake Shook My St Louis Home

by mariamarchita | April 18, 2008 at 05:46 am
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abandoned road mimics the effects of an earthquake....

abandoned road mimics the effects of an earthquake....

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"It shook our house where it woke me up," David Behm of Philo, Illinois, told the AP. "Windows were rattling, and you could hear it. The house was shaking inches. For people in central Illinois, this is a big deal. It's not like California."


I'm in St Louis and it was a big deal to me! Here I was, minding my own business, surfing the net at 4:30 in the morning, and all of a sudden the windows started shaking, the lamps started swaying and my dogs went nuts!

I took it as a sign - get off the "dang ol' internet and get thee to bed!"

The USGS said the largest historical earthquake in the region -- magnitude 5.4 -- shook southern Illinois in 1968.
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cynthia yoo

Ha! Thanks for this...and yes maybe you should take it as a sign~~

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at 04:09 on April 28th, 2008

mariamarchita, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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