that's right folks, last night around 4:00 in the morning, chicago's western suburbs, along with parts of wisconsin and indiana, experienced a 3.8 magnitude earthquake! of course, i slept through the whole thing so i can't report first-hand, but my mom woke up and said the whole house was shaking, which she mistakenly identified as a possible gas explosion or ice falling on the roof - both theories were disproved after a quick examination of the house. i didn't even know this, but apparently we are along a fault line out here in the midwest, although actual activity you can feel occurs pretty infrequently.
it's not quite as dramatic as snow-magedon, but there certainly are some crazy natural phenomena happening these days...
4 comments:
oh my goodness! i read about this and wasn't quite sure where you guys were. I'm glad that you are all okay!
that is crazy! my gosh i'm glad ya'll are fine!
I was wondering about you yesterday! I remember my first earthquake when living in CA - it was absolutely terrifying for about 5-10 seconds. But then again, I was only like 7 years old so I probably was just paranoid :)
glad you're all okay! are you a super sound sleeper or is 3.8 just not that intense? I have no frame of reference when it comes to earthquakes.
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