EARTH quake springfield illinois april 18 4:35am1

Share your experience Added 3-4 minutes after it happend, acting goofy/scared heh

Hundreds of Springfield-area residents were shaken awake this morning when they felt the rumblings of a 5.4-magnitude earthquake centered near West Salem.

No damage and no injuries have been reported here. The trembling, just before 4:37 a.m., lasted about 15 seconds.

Dispatchers at Sangamon County 911 and local police departments received numerous phone calls from residents wondering what was going on or reporting someone was in their home.

911 reported a glitch with their phonelines after the earthquake, but it was not immediately known if that was a result of the trembling or perhaps from call volume.

The quake was centered 6 miles from West Salem, Ill., and 66 miles from Evansville, Ind.

The quake shook tall buildings in Chicago's Loop, 240 miles north of the epicenter, and in downtown Indianapolis, about 160 miles northeast of the epicenter.

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[Losagirl1980]

Springfield? That's where THE SIMPSONS lives there in small earthquakes

[Douglas Rockwell]

O_O how on earth did you find this video its old!!

[bendenton0062839]

I live in southern Illinois about 17 miles from the epacenter all my pictures fell of the wall it was really creepy wakin up to an earthquake. Question? How much weed do u smoke?

[Douglas Rockwell]

Hahaa dont smoke...

[Cherele Hatchett]

Lol I was knocked i thought , I Was shakin , but it was myy beed lhh sprinqfield 1st .

[DemSelLOL]

Dude I was so asleep. i didnt wake up at all. It had an after shock at school..

[Kyrakitten]

ha I used to live in Springfield. all my life never once was there an earthquake i finally leave IL for TX and they have a fairly good sized one. just my luck I would have been intetrested in experiencing that.....course I used to think the same about experiencing a tornado then it happened and I thought OK not so fun

[yamster88]

that nigga used to ride a prelude

[whittywhit89]

Haha, Well you're lucky to live out of IL... it sucks, but I'm also from Southern IL.

I'm trying to get outta this state and far away

[McDizzle]

They can predeict them yes. Can they give an exact date? no. Haha. I live in Los Angeles. thats my moms car. We are suppose to have an earthquake bigger than haitis here. You know when? 20 years ago. then it was 10 years ago. then 5 years ago. Now it could be right now. Now they say within the next 5 years. Those dudes dont know. It could happen right after i type this. only good thing is california has a lot of buildings built to withstand earthquakes better than most places.

[whittywhit89]

They can predict them,

Where are you from? I saw the IL plates in one of your videos....

[McDizzle]

you cant call when an earthquakes gonna happen.