Living as we do in the Midwest, this may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to blog a reasonably local earthquake. I was awakened about 0440 CDT this morning by the mirror on the back of the bedroom dresser shaking. After I woke up, it shook again. I got up immediately and went downstairs and out in the yard, but felt no more shaking. After making some coffee and turning on TV, reports began to come in around 0515, just the fact itself from TWC, and then more detail from a local station (WCIA-TV in Champaign). They said it was a 5.4 quake that was being reported from Evansville (later stating that damage was being reported in Louisville), and shortly thereafter that the epicenter was about 20 miles from Olney (a town in Richland Co. IL in SE Illinois, due West of Vincennes, IN).
Well, there it is...this should provide plenty of grist for the mill of the disaster-mongers.
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