I've been involved in three earthquakes in my lifetime. I didn't notice the first one and I slept through the other two. Early this morning, a magnitude-5.2 earthquake hit central Illinois. Slight damage was reported near the quake's epicenter. People reported feeling the earth move as far away as Chicago and Milwaukee.I may have experienced some ripples in the waterbed in which I sleep, but I slept through it, just as I did an early morning quake that struck Michigan three decades ago. Another quake rippled Michigan in the 1980s during the day. Co-workers at my place of employment came into my office describing the tremor they felt as it passed through the building. I hadn't noticed anything.
Guess I'm not a seismic kind of guy. And I was born in Japan. Go figure.
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I called my mom as soon as I heard about the earthquake. She slept through it too. If it had happened last week, I would have been awake, packing for my trip back to Maryland. Perhaps I would have felt it.
I missed the last one in Illinois too -- I mean the last one I was present for. I was in a bowling alley of all places!
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