Been there done that….. back a few years I was in building that had I-beams that formed an X in each wall of a room. Each beam was at least 15 feet in length. I was standing on 9x9 floor tile in the center of the room when the building began to shake. The i-beams expanded away from each other then instantly back together. Boom, boom it went as the whole building shook. The tile I was standing on moved almost a whole tile under my feet while I didn’t move. Needless to say you can have your earthquakes. I want no part of them…. lol

Sorry to hear you had that experience. I didn't feel a thing in my dream, I got up late that day, then had to go to a motorcycle rally in a car because it was too late to ride there (3 hr ride)........ I was in Tokyo for a year a long while ago, that place was like a earthquake open lab, earthquake happened all the time. I got used to it after a while. The noise was horrible though. You won't forget about the noise for a long while. Glad you are Ok, with no damages.

Yes, Sara--we got the tail-end of your earthquake up here in Kansas. I had no idea what was going on. Son came home later and told me that was an earthquake--my first!

Bad enough that we have to put up with tornado warnings--now earthquakes also? No, NO, NO!

Glad you are all right, Sara.

Kate

For some reason I was under the impression that California was the only area of the USA to be earthquake-prone,but I see I was wrong. I agree, they are very , very scary,and I am very glad that no person was seriously hurt in this one.

Goodness! Scary stuff!

We had a 4.2 quake May 2, 2015 whose epicenter was in Galesburg, MI (about ten minutes give or take from Kalamzoo).

I was at a friend's in Sherwood, MI about a half hour from Galesburg.The way it started was interesting; the low, thundery rumble that increase until the house was quite notably shaking, even a bit more than I would have ever expected in Michigan.

Interestingly, they blamed the quake here on fracking as well.

I'm glad you're okay!!!

I'm a bit concerned over a repeat of the quakes of 1811-1812 that centered at New Madrid, MO. Caused a swamp in Tennessee to drop and fill, which is now Reelfoot Lake. The initial shaking was a 7.5-7.9 with a same day aftershock of 7.4. One of my texts indicates that the Earth was shaking "like the flesh of a beef just killed". It managed to crack plaster in Quebec!

Steven

So relieved to hear you're alright & your home undamaged! Thought of you when the news broke - thanks for letting us know. Read the quake was felt in Chicago & Texas. Late in August of 2011, a quake of 5.8 with the epicenter 30 miles away shook us up. You were so close to the origin, must have been even more intense. Fifteen minutes before it traveled through here, one of our dogs became highly agitated, crying & pacing. Couldn't figure out why as both dogs cowered under my desk. Then I heard what seemed a fast-moving freight train roaring down on us, crossing the property from one end to the other. Held onto the desk to keep from being thrown from my chair. Never encountered one before & hope to never again! Knew instinctively it was an earthquake & that our dear dog had been trying to warn us. Aftershocks continued for several days.

When we came here, we added an earthquake rider to our homeowner's insurance policy, though the last quake happened more than a century earlier. Agent had to look it up & thought it a ridiculous inclusion, but I insisted. Until this last quake, ran about $15 a year, now up to $50. Thankfully, we found no resulting damage that time. Agent called to check on us, and ate his words about what a spendthrift I'd been, as he was suddenly adding earthquake riders to many policies. Are you sure you can't add one to yours? Sure hope so.

Found this article about birds taking flight before your earthquake - same time frame as our dog Rosie felt the approach. http://tinyurl.com/gsvwt3x

Bless your bones. So thankful y'all are fine. We have so much to worry about without this too. Hopefully there won't be anymore for a long long time.

So sorry you had to go through that, Sara-Ann. It's frightening each time it happens and makes you realize you have absolutely no control over the forces of nature. I hope you won't have any more, and glad there was no damage.

We felt the shaking up here in Nebraska as well, though I've not heard of any damage this far away. It humbles us all to think of the power hidden in the earth and how a relatively 'minor' irregularity in its surface can have such potentially devastating effects. Warm thoughts to you and your community in OK, as well as to our California and international friends who have earthquakes on a more regular basis. I'm with Kate - enough with adding more kinds of natural disasters to our plates!

Glad to hear you're OK

Cynthia

Wow! I've never been near an earthquake. We don't get them here. That must have been scary!!!

Carol

I appreciate everyone's words of concern, thank you so much. Today it was officially upgraded to a 5.8.

i will try to explain my understanding of how the insurance works. Our earthquakes have been determined to be man made, and our state has to be earthquake free for a certain number of days or months (not sure how many). That's not likely to happen any time in the near future. I know one couple who do have earthquake insurance, she said the deductible is so high that their house would have to be reduced to rubble for it to be of any help to them .

I'm with Kate and Cynthia, enough with adding more kinds of natural disasters!

That's crazy! I didn't know you got earthquakes so far away from the west coast. I'm glad you are ok. Those things are scary. I'm always paralyzed by fear whenever we get one. Thankfully so far, by the time I think about getting in a doorway or under something, it ends. I'm so glad no one was seriously injured.

Fracking is a mixed bag thing in my area as well. I'm in the heart of the sand mine area that produces the sand used in fracking. Some people are making big bucks on selling their land to sand mine companies but the others are being very negatively impacted by ground water issues, dust & major truck/railroad increased traffic in their neighborhoods from these mines. I don't suspect it is as bad as your earth quakes but there always seems to be some down side to these kinds of things.