Because I've been through about five or six relatively strong quakes in California and here in Kentucky, and probably a dozen small ones, and I've never once felt the earth shake. Of course, don't get me wrong, I don't want such a big one that the damage is staggering. But it would be nice to at least feel a bit of a shake.
This morning I slept as a 5.2 magnitude quake hit Illinois and was felt throughout the area. We're not far from the New Madrid (that's pronounced Ma'-drid, not Ma-drid') fault, which was responsible in the 19th century for a quake so big the Mississipi River ran backwards. That one was felt as far away as Boston. This one was felt as far as Florida by one account I read.
5.2 earthquake rattles skyscrapers, nerves across Midwest
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