so after the initial guess of 5.4 “they” decided it was actually a 5.2.

still.

well, after a brief moment of terror came a period of fascination

it’s all the world (at least in the midwest) was talking about

“did you feel it?!” “my dog woke me up” “it felt like someone was shaking my bed violently” “my starch fell right off my ironing board” “does my insurance cover earthquakes!?”

yes, quite the talk of the town.

we all love a small natural disaster to gossip about.

on sunday night i was once again jolted from my sleep by a rattling earth.

this time, however, i wasn’t fully convinced. i actually thought i had imagined it. my ceiling fan is shaking. but perhaps it’s the old folks who live above me. they do move about at strange hours.

so i called a friend. no, i’m crazy. back to bed.

megan, however, informed me in the early morning that it was, indeed, another earthquake. 4.5. not nearly as strong, but enough to be felt. enough to make you wonder.

these 2 earthquakes and all of the tremors came from the same area by west salem, il (close to evansville, in)

not right on the new madrid, but there is speculation, could this smaller earthquakes possibly trigger something in the earth’s plates that could cause the new madrid to react? could the midwest see another disaster like that of 1811/1812?

or maybe the earth is just letting go of some frustration. it does that every 20 years or so.

1968…..1987…..2008

these are the ones we’ve felt. (well not me, i wasn’t alive in 1968)

i guess i’m fairly confident that it’s not time for the “big one” yet.

i suppose only time will show us when this prophesized earthquake will finally hit, but for now, let’s hope the earth is just letting off a little steam.
-jessica

she had an earthquake on her mind
apparently the kind that would bury us alive
by putting all this weight on us forever

the used ~ earthquake