I mentioned this in the weather report, not realizing there was a thread just for it.

It was felt as far away as Chicago & Atlanta, according to news reports. As far as being an unusual location, New Salem appears (at least to me) to be not too far from the legendary New Madrid Fault, the midwest's best known & perhaps least understood geological anomally. The New Madrid opened up the ground for miles around several states way back in 1811-12, & created Reelfoot Lake in NW TN (ya can look it up). Casualties at the time were, of course few, due to the lack of population in the early days. Every so often, when the local news shows have nothing else to scare us with, they do reports on what the consequences would be if a trembler of that scale happened again today, with millions of peoploids now living near the confluence of the Ohio & mighty Mississppi. Obviously, quakes in this area are rare (certainly would seem so to those on the Left Coast), but not completely unheard of. It was about 40 years ago when New Madrid last burped hard enough for us to hear in middle Tennessee.

One of wife's co-workers had his gun out looking for a home invader, he was sure he heard someone moving in the hall.

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