By bob

April 20, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

I imagine the people in southern California would react the same way to a foot of snow outside in the morning.

By Loretta

April 20, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

I was not aware we had one until my son called me. I live next to railroad tracks so I never thought of anything. But as I think about that morning I do recall the birds and my animals acting crazy around that time. The last time we felt a earthquake here in Ohio was June 10, 1987 at 7:30pm. I went into labor that night along with a lot of other women.

By Theresa

April 19, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this

I had woke up for a brief moment feeling the shaking and said to myself “I wonder if thats an earthquake, no, why would it be an earthquake. It’s just the dryer!” Then later when I was getting ready for school my parents had said “Did you feel the earthquake this morning!?” I couldn’t believe that it was actually an earthquake, Northern Indiana rarely feels earthquakes. It was pretty strang for me to even think that it could have been one when I was half asleep, and that it was my first thought!

By ??

April 19, 2008 10:32 PM | Link to this

Wow, If you guy’s lived in California, you would be non-functional :)

By Scott Blount

April 19, 2008 9:16 PM | Link to this

I was sitting at the kitchen table on my laptop & it started shaking a little. I thought our cat was pawing at the table - she was 20 feet away & asleep. Kathy (wife) was laying on couch watching news. She felt it too! No damage here in Liberty Township - glad to report!

By Scott Blount

April 19, 2008 9:15 PM | Link to this

I was sitting at the kitchen table on my laptop & it started shaking a little. I thought our cat was pawing at the table - she was 20 feet away & asleep. Kathy (wife) was laying on couch watching news. She felt it too! No damage here in Liberty Township - glad to report!

By Trish

April 19, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this

I work 4 am to noon and around 5:30 was in route from Carlile to Middletown and my Geo went off the road for no reason, steering was tough just for a few seconds.

By John

April 19, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

I live in Fairborn and didn’t feel yesterday’s quake, but I remember one in the ’80s while visiting with a friend in Toledo. I experienced quakes in California the Philippines, but the biggest one was Good Friday 1964 when I was stationed at Elmendorf AFB outside Anchorage, Alaska. I grew up in Texas and had never experienced an earthquake in my life. Let me tell you, that is something I will never forget, not unlike the Xenia tornado of 1974. I noticed in today’s DDN it cited Alaska 1954.????

By Christine

April 19, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

So my son wasn’t dreaming. My last earthquake experience was…right in the middle of downtown Oakland, CA on a bus. Was it in 1989 or 1990. I forgot. But i thought we had a flat tire but then, when i felt shattered glasses were coming through the window. I quickly shut it and my goodness, there was a window washer man hanging on one of the tall building. Then, i realized we had a big earthquake. How would u feel…going through Alameda tunnel and it was extremely dark? Super scary!

By HuberTuckey

April 19, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

Knocked me out of bed and the china fell off the shelves…I thought the kids were bowling in the basement again.

By Christy

April 19, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

I think I’m the only one who didn’t feel it. I’m a very heavy sleeper. I’ve slept through tornado sirens going off before.

By Chris

April 19, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

I’m in Iraq so I didn’t feel a thing… ha ha! Of course I have other kinds of “tremors” to worry about here. However, my sister in Dayton wrote and told me about it. She said she is so grateful that people were talking about it because now she knows that she isn’t “crazy”. I experienced the one in 79’… cut myself shaving at the time. Yes, these things get you to realize how small we are. Good posts; I enjoyed reading them all.

By Old Scratch

April 19, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

I was on the toilet, and it was like a mighty sunami! I thought “Old Ed was right. That Metamusill really works!” The good news was I was wearing my seat belt, the bad news is Dayton is still here.

By Pat

April 19, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

I am a Hamilton resident Of the east side.Friday the 19th in the early morning i awoke by my bed moving.I didnt know what was going on. then i quickly realized it was really shakeing.WOW HOW SCARY

By Jean

April 19, 2008 2:03 AM | Link to this

I was sleeping and I thought I was dreaming. When my bed shook and woke me up and I was very shocked. Then my apartment shook again with another aftershock around 10:00 am then the electricity went out due to a line down. The lights were out for about 30 minutes. Power company got it fixed quickly for once.

By Kelly

April 19, 2008 1:51 AM | Link to this

From Dayton, Ohio. I was on a computer at about 5:30 am when I felt the shake & heard the “train sound” noise. I thought I was imagining at first and didn’t even realize it was an earthquake till I got to work a few hours later when everybody talked about it! I was little freaked out. I didn’t feel the aftershock 4.5.

By syndi poulter

April 18, 2008 11:18 PM | Link to this

I was asleep when the earthqake woke me up. I got scared when my bed started to shake. It felt like it lasted forever

By Robert

April 18, 2008 11:17 PM | Link to this

I grew up in Miamisburg. Graduated from OSU in 1972. Moved to L.A., CA in 1975. I have been through several quakes here, including the 1991 “Northridge” “Big One.” I think that one was 6.7. You must remember; the Richter scale is logarithmic (i.e. a 6.0 is 10 times stronger than a 5.0. A 7.0 is 100 times stronger than a 5.0.). With that in mind, can you imagine what a 7.2 quake would be like? If that is what the New Madrid fault can produce, …

Good luck.

By Irishguy

April 18, 2008 10:52 PM | Link to this

I’m not sure what made you the earthquake authority, but I think I’ll trust the experts on this one over some old lady.

By Karpis

April 18, 2008 10:39 PM | Link to this

I was at work in West Carrolton and didn’t feel a thing. I was in downtown Dayton when the “aftershock” occurred and still felt nothing. Despite what the so-called experts are trying to feed us, I don’t believe this one was nearly as strong as the one back in about 79, or the one in 86. I felt both of them, and if I didn’t feel this one how could it have been as bad?

By Cody

April 18, 2008 10:39 PM | Link to this

Yes it is possible an earthquake can happen in Ohio. It is something i learned my freshman year in high school Ohio is actually on a fault.. never thought it would actually happen though.. But i did not feel the earthquake but alot of my friends at school had some stories for me..I live in Middletown Ohio.

By Pat

April 18, 2008 10:16 PM | Link to this

By Pat in Bellbrook

I was sitting on the edge of my bed and my legs started shaking. I thought there was something going wrong with my legs but 3 min. longer the tv reported the tremors. Sure was a awful experience.

By carole

April 18, 2008 10:13 PM | Link to this

I feel the earth move under my feet I feel the sky tumbling down, tumbling down I feel my heart start to trembling Whenever you’re around

Ooh, baby, when I see your face Mellow as the month of May Oh, darling, I can’t stand it When you look at me that way

I feel the earth move under my feet I feel the sky tumbling down, tumbling down I feel my heart start to trembling Whenever you’re around…

By whatever

April 18, 2008 10:11 PM | Link to this

My dog barked, my cat meowed The sky must be falling Or you all were plowed

By Kathy

April 18, 2008 9:48 PM | Link to this

I was awake and the bed started shaking. I thought the dog was scratching and hitting the bed but the dog was not there when I looked on the floor. Then some plates and awards on the wall rattled, the windows started rattling, and I really felt the shaking. I knew what it was immediately. I have been in other quakes here in Ohio. I was surprised the center was as far away as it was from Ohio. I live in New Lebanon.

By Cheryl

April 18, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this

It woke me up, but I thought I was dreaming, but I heard everything on my night table vibrating. When I actually got up about 15 mins later I seen it on the news and couldn’t believe that I actually felt it.

By Ray and Traci

April 18, 2008 8:33 PM | Link to this

We could hear our windows in the upstairs rattle and the house felt like it was shifting. Ray went outside to see what it was and the dog was freaked out. I am glad it wasn’t more serious but it was still really freaky.

By Sandy Lovejoy

April 18, 2008 7:49 PM | Link to this

(rewrite version) i do apologized) like most people i was semi asleep in my bed when the quake hit this morning my first thought it was a semi truck going by our house but then nothing is impossible these days my entire family thought they were either going nuts or dreaming

By ittycat

April 18, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this

Felt the bed shaking in my 9th floor Columbus hotel room!

By Sandy lovejoy

April 18, 2008 6:44 PM | Link to this

Like most people i was semi asleep in my bed when the quake hit this morning my first thought it was a semi truck going by our house but then nothing is impossible these days my entire my thought they were dreaming,

By Sharon

April 18, 2008 6:41 PM | Link to this

I was asleep and felt the bed shaking. It reminded me of when I was in Chicago nearly 23 years ago and the same thing happen there.

By teddyc

April 18, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this

yes, I felt it and only one of my dogs actually cared. She raised her head for a second or two and that was it. I only wish that the media would pay that much attention to it. The media gets hooked on a subject and stomps it into the ground so much so you want to either A. scream or B. change the channel. I just keep changing the channel.

By Billie Jean

April 18, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

I was awaken by my windows rattling and my bed and floor shaking around 5:30am, had no idea what happened. I thought I was dreaming or that we were getting ready for a bad thunderstorm. I didn’t think too much about it and went back to sleep. Just glad it wasn’t worse!

By Sarah

April 18, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

I live above Sloopy’s in the Oregon District and at around 5:35, I woke up to my bed shaking. I had no idea what it was so I just went back to sleep. When my boyfriend called at lunch, he said it was an earthquake and his whole house (a couple of miles away) shook, and a glass fell off his bathroom counter.

By Rick

April 18, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

I live in Middletown, and at 5:30am the dog woke me up barking, I thought shw had to go out, I did not feel anything but friends of mine said that it shook them in their beds.

By Ric

April 18, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

My dog woke me up winning at 5:30am, I didn’t feel anything but some of my fellow Middletown friends did feel it.

By Ric

April 18, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

My dog woke me up wining at 5:30am, I didn’t feel anything but some of my fellow Middletown friends did feel it.

By Stephanie

April 18, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

I live in West Carrollton, I’m a heave sleeper but for some reason when the bed started to shake really bad, it woke me up. I looked at the alarm clock and it was 5:38am. I looked over at my boyfriend who was about to get up and he was just sitting on the side of the bed…our cat was no where to be found. It stopped, he got up and I chalked it up to having a dream. I had just watched Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones so I thought I was still asleep. I got in my car at 7:30 and heard about it. WOW!!!

By Bethany in Belmont

April 18, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

I woke up twice last night — once to an animal running back and forth on our roof (raccoon or cat?) and the second time when the whole house started shaking. My bed was shaking as if the whole thing was a gigantic cell-phone on vibrate. Outside it sounded like a train was roaring in our backyard. I tried to wake my husband up, but he didn’t wake up until after it happened … leaving me to think it was the latest extension of my morning sickness. Glad to know I’m not crazy! :)

By Jamille

April 18, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

I am orginally from California and never in my wildest dreams did I think Ohio or the Midwest ever have earthquakes! I was on the computer at about 5:30 a.m. and I felt my little Chihuahua shaking suddenly. I had the worst feeling almost surreal. I didn’t know that it was an actual earthquake here in Dayton. Then when I checked CNN.com sure enough there was my proof. Plus, since being from California I guess this was a very minor one,lol. Thank God no one was injured.

By Kaetlyn

April 18, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

I woke around 5:30 am, feeling my bed shaking. This was in Richmond, IN

By Stephenie

April 18, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Like everyone else, I felt it too! I woke up this morning about 5 and went back to sleep before I had to get back up. As I was apparently drifting off or had just drifted off, I was jolted back awake by my bed shaking. I thought at first it was just a plane traveling too low but it got stronger. I was kind of nervous because I thought my house was going to collapse, but it subsided. I never thought I would live through an earthquake in Ohio - but I guess I was proven wrong!

By Alisha

April 18, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

WOW! I live in Miamisburg, OH. I awoke at about 5:37 or so because my bed was shaking and my closet door was banging and my windows were shaking I was soooo scared. I thought what in the world had I been dreaming? It seem so surreal.I went to work only to find out that I was in fact not crazy or dreaming we really did experience an earthquake! What a weird experience for me. It literally “shook me up”.

By char

April 18, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

my son felt it around 5:30 while he was on his computer. i slept through it.

By Patti

April 18, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

I must of slept right through it. I noticed one of my cats was acting strange last night near 10 p.m, and then I read the newspaper this morning, and read about the earthquake. Next time my cat acts a little bit out of the ordinary, then i’ll know whats coming..

By Melanie

April 18, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

Yes! It woke me up! First I thought I was dreaming. My windows were rattling and my bed & ceiling fan were shaking, & I thought “What’s going on!?” It took a minute for it to register that I had probably just felt an earthquake - in OHIO!

By May

April 18, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

I woke up with loud rattling noises. I thought it was one of my dogs. I got up from the bed to yell at her..then my husband quietly said “earthquake.” Well, I’m from Japan and he is from PA. He didn’t want to get a job in California because it shakes out there. Oh well, it shakes here too! We live in Oakwood. When I called the dispatcher, she said she didn’t feel it - The city has a nice new solid building. I’m glad no one got hurt.

By Nancy

April 18, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

This is all very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I felt it strong on the West Side of Hamilton. My friend, who lives a block away, did not feel anything. She thinks it might be because she doesn’t have a basement. Anyone know if there is any validity to that?

By Dave H

April 18, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

We live in Troy. This morning we awoke due to a noise as a train or wing & the clock on the dresser was rattleing & it did it for a few seconds (seemed longer of course than that) even our cat sat up & was checking it out. We really did not know what it was cvaused from . we have several trains come through Troy, Ohio so that is nothing new But this was different than usual. It was noticable for sure.

By Kris

April 18, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

I have to make one more comment. Will somebody, for the love of all that is good, teach whoever “melissa” might be to write. This is America and the national language of America is English, not text-speak! When, oh when, will out beloved governmental officials fix the school systems so that our children and future children will actually be able to learn something useful. The English language, maybe?

By Kris

April 18, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

I woke to a shaking bed last night which I assume is due to the earthquake. I think I probably woke up during REM or NREM stage 4 because I felt a little freaked for about 10 seconds before I decided the wind outside must just be terribly strong and immediately fell back asleep. I’m surprised it was so strong in Dayton, considering how far we are from Illinois.

By melissa

April 18, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

i thought that 2 kurt! that earthquake was wierdat first i thought i was ether dreaming or i was shivering or sumthing but wen every1 was talking bout it @ skool 2day i new it waznt a dream! i was joking round w/myself saying that it was a quake during the quake. yay i feel special! sumthig exciting actually happended in harrison!!!

By melissa

April 18, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

that earthquake was wierdat first i thought i was ether dreaming or i was shivering or sumthing but wen every1 was talking bout it @ skool 2day i new it waznt a dream! yay i feel special! sumthig exciting actually happended in harrison!!!

By Karoline

April 18, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

I was alseep when I felt the bed shake. I thought someone else in the house had opened the garage door, or was doing laundry. When I got to work people said it was an earthquake and I thought, oh wow, so that’s what that was!

By dawn

April 18, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

I felt it! I was sitting on the side of the bed this morning and I felt the bed move. Right before that happened my bird went crazy. I thought he was asleep and fell off his perch! I turned on tv and saw the news. Back in the 80s there was a “tremor” or earthquake. My sister and I were on the bedroom floor playing and my mother yelled at us to “stop jumping up and down on the bed!” We felt the floor move back and forth.

By Debby

April 18, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

I live in Hamilton and didn’t hear or feel a thing. I’m a very sound sleeper and always said that I could sleep right through an earthquake. Darned if I didn’t!!

By Tracie

April 18, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

I felt the one this morning at 5:37 am,,,,,,my bed was really shaking and the headboard hitting the wall. It was a flash back from the Exorcist Movie! LOL

By M

April 18, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

While watching the View around 11:15,felt a lttle Jitter,in Vandalia

By vicki

April 18, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

at the auto plant working third shift, i was drinking a very strong cup of coffee, and probably very sleepy, (with my high BP), thought i had met my maker and i was floating into the new world.

By Terri

April 18, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

I was on my computer at 5:30 this morning and around 5:37 my office chair seemed to be moving. At first I thought my body was telling me that I was having something medically wrong—then I looked up on the desk and my monitor was shaking and then there was my Adam Dunn Dragon’s bobble head just bouncing like there was no tomorrow. So right then I knew it was not my imagination and Mr. Bobble Head was saying yep “why else would I be moving?” “You are feeling an earthquake.”

By Connie

April 18, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

I was on the computer when it happened. My coffee was on my desk and everything was shakeing , I thought my computer was going to kill me like some bad movie , before it happened my dog came from the bedroom to the room I was in like a warning , he knew something was going to happen. When it happened my dog was calm and I had never thought so fast as I did ,my dog is afraid of storms and strong wind but not earthquakes.

By Betsy

April 18, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

I didn’t feel it this morning around 5:00 am, however, I immediately woke up at that time startled - maybe this is why. I did feel our hospital shake at 11:20 am today, though. Other co-workers felt it too. Shortly after I received a news alter via email stating that the Miami Valley felt the aftershock again around 11:20 am. Now I know I wasn’t crazy!

By Phil

April 18, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

I’m in Dayton, not far from the USAF Museum, and I heard the light by my bed shaking, but I thought I had dreamt it until I just read about the acutal quake.

By ?

April 18, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

I was very scared when it came! SHAKE! Wow!

By HHRes

April 18, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

The cat had woke me up this morning about 5:20 or so. Since, I couldn’t fall back asleep, I decided to move into the living room so I wouldn’t wake up my husband. I was sitting on the couch reading my book and listening to the news. I felt the couch shake a bit, but I thought I was just imagining it. Then the news reported the earthquake. I live in Huber Heights.

By fenwah

April 18, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

I was at the gym on an elliptical machine machine during the time of the earthquake. However, I didn’t feel or notice anything. I just got home a bit ago, and noticed that a small crack has appeared going up the wall in our great room. I didn’t notice any pictures on the wall off center or anything.

By Nikki Hatfield

April 18, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

It woke me out of a dead sleep, i felt the bed shaking real bad, thought i had to be dreaming…

By Lisa

April 18, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

At about 5:30, it woke me up, the bed was shaking, I thought I was dreaming, went right back to sleep, then awoke again, still wondering whether what I felt was a dream or what, most freaky thing I ever experienced. When I turned the TV on I realized just what it was I felt and heard.

By Toni

April 18, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

I was awaken out of a dead sleep this morning. I thought to myself that I did not just feel an earthquake did I. I use to live in Alaska and it a normal occurance up there. But for it to happen here was weird. First thing I did was turn on the news just to make sure I wasn’t loosing my mind. Thankful I hadn’t

By MClem

April 18, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

I live in Illinois. It woke me up around 4 30 AM. The whole house was shaking. I thought someone was trying to break in. Not a good feeling for someone who is 9 months pregnant! I felt a small aftershock this morning.

By T-Man

April 18, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

To Linda Arnold. The question was did you feel the quake, not did you feel it and where were you during your morning routine when it happened. If you really think we wanted to know that then I’m surprised that you even have indoor plumbing!

By Donna

April 18, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

We live in Michigan and felt the earthquake here. The bed and house was shaking!!

By Pam Joseph

April 18, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

I awoke to a rumbling sound outside my open window and then the sound of clanging glass. My daughter woke to the rumbling and the bed shaking. We both thought it was due to a storm outside.

By George T.

April 18, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

At first I thought that I might be having another heart attack, so grabbed for my Nitro Glycerin tablets. Thank goodness it was just an earth quake!

By M

April 18, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Bed was shaking in Vandalia…

By Aaron

April 18, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

I didn’t feel that one but I felt the aftershock 4.5 mag. around 11:15 today. It was about 15 secs long and shook me in my chair at work in Dayton.

By Julia

April 18, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

I felt it at UD. I was sleeping and it woke me and my roommate up.

By Kathy

April 18, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

I live in Springboro and I was up this morning but I didn’t feel anything.

By Linda Arnold

April 18, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

I was on the pot this morning 530am somewhere in there and my husband had just turned the shower on and got inside for his morning shower. The pot started shaking and I thought to myself what the heck, this has never happened before. So I just thought we had an air bubble in the water line that when my husband, John turned on the water it made the pot shake. Now I find out that it could have been from the earth quake, possible an after shock.

We live on Gratis Jacksonburg Rd. Ohio

By Doug

April 18, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

I live in western Kentucky about 80 miles from the epicenter of the quake. I was awakened at 4:39 a.m. Central time when our house started shaking to the point that I thought I would be thrown out of bed. I jumped out of bed but then had to hold on the the bed post to keep my balance. The tremors lasted for about 40 seconds, and were accompanied by a loud rumbling noise which sounded something like thunder. At 10:17 Central time we experienced an aftershock which lasted less than ten seconds.

By sue

April 18, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

I felt it here in waynesville,oh..It really shook things.

By Homer

April 18, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Felt nothing around Lewisburg, OH but did wake up around 4:30, strangely enough. Son called from Louisville, KY later and said he was awakened by the movement and noise!

By Biff

April 18, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

Nope, didn’t feel it in Australia.

By Tricia

April 18, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

I woke up this morning after my husband had left for work to funny noises in the house. I thought someone was in the house, and then it started shaking and vibrating. I thought it was storming at first, but it was clear outside. I’ve always felt there are ghosts in our house, so I thought they finally were making themselves known! I’m glad I found out it was really an earthquake or I’d still be thinking our house was possessed!

By SGD

April 18, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

I was just on the phone with my mother who lives in southwestern KY; we were talking about the earthquake from this morning and suddenly she stopped talking mid-sentence, paused, and then said, “Oh, my gosh..I think we’re having another tremor! Dishes on my baker’s rack are rattling…!” I was in my car and couldn’t notice anything…but I suppose it’s possible that we will continue to experience a few aftershocks from this morning’s quake. =)

By Krishna Mojumder

April 18, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

I was on my sofa and felt something was shaking.

By SGD

April 18, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

I was just on the phone with my mother who lives in southwestern KY; we were talking about the earthquake from this morning and suddenly she stopped talking mid-sentence and said, “Oh, my gosh..I think we’re having another tremor! Dishes on my baker’s rack are rattling…!” I was in my car and couldn’t notice anything…but I suppose it’s possible that we will continue to experience a few aftershocks from this morning’s quake. =)

By Bailey

April 18, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

I live in Murray Kentucky and my family lives in Owensboro KY. I didn’t feel anything but I live in a tall dorm and live on the top floor. I did wake up and walk around at 4:35 but I don’t know why I just woke up. My family called me and felt both very strong. The first one woke them up and they got in the door frames. The second one was small.

By Lucinda

April 18, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

I live outside Lebanon Ohio. I didnt feel anything, but my berneise mountain dog was outside and he started barking about 5:30 ish. It was his alarm bark so I know he felt it.

By Bill

April 18, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

I did not feel the original quake but did feel an aftershock that happened about 11:16AM here in Middletown.

By Anne in St. Louis

April 18, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

We are rocking in St. Louis! I woke up to a shaking bed and my dog barking. The bed shook for about one and a half minutes. We just experienced another small tremor at 10:15 Central that moved back & forth unlike this morning’s up & down movement.

By Tammy

April 18, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

I felt it in ENON. My bed was moving and the windows were shaking. My poor dog was going nuts. What a way to start out a FRIDAY!!!

By Brittany

April 18, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

I woke up this morning to my bed shaking, nothing real major, more like a vibrating. I couldn’t figure out what it was. I about started to freak out. I thought someone was in the house because I kept hearing other noises too, but I just thought I was crazy and went back to sleep. When I got up I got on myspace and my friend who lives in Munci, Indiana posted something about an earthquake, that explained it. I couldn’t believe it, I never thought…earthquake in Ohio.

By B Ross

April 18, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Once in the late 60’s near Washington, DC then again in the 70’s in Northern KY, now In Huber Heights, OH… I slept right thru all of them.. guess I really didn’t miss anything.

By Becky

April 18, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

I felt it in Tipp City! I was sitting in a recliner reading and felt a shaking sensation. I thought “I must have the shakes this morning (I hadn’t felt well the night before).” But when I held up my hand I realized it was the chair, not me, that was shaking. Didn’t realize until I turned on Channel 2 News that it was an earthquake. I was so relieved to know I wasn’t crazy!

By Crystal J

April 18, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

I live in Cinn, Green Township, approx 12miles from the Indiana border. Yes, I felt the quake. I live the foresst. Thought my husband had left the door open and a wild animal got into the house. The bed shook, mirror on the dressor banged the wall. There was a rumbling noice. I was scared to move, thinking a animal was going to get me. Afterwards, I checked my kids rooms and they both thought the other was playing games shaking each others bed. My mother in St Louis MO felt the quake

By Fairborn

April 18, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

I felt it in Fairborn. I had got up too early and laid back down on the couch. It felt like the couch was swaying back and forth. I thought maybe there had been an explosion, or car accident and fell back asleep. When I woke up, I saw it on the news. Weird feeling!

By Krystal

April 18, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

I felt it in Arcanum! I was sleeping and felt the bed shake and the windows rattling I just assumed the farmers where moving something like they always do.

By dawn

April 18, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

I thought I was having a nightmare. But when I realized I was awake and the house was still shaking..I was freaked. Then I heard on the tv about the quake and was very happy to know I had not lost my mind! Checked my house for damage..a few things were moved around..but nothing broken!

By ALH

April 18, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

I live in Troy, OH. I woke up about 5:35ish to a shaking bed and a rattling house. It lasted about 20 seconds or so.

Then, when it was actually time to get up this morning, I couldn’t remember if it was a dream or reality…until I turned on the news.

It was the absolute wierdest feeling in the world!