I hope it’s small, anyway, and that there was no damage. No damage here, but this was definitely beyond “Hey, did a truck just drive past?” This was “MY BED IS SHAKING! WHY IS MY BED SHAKING?!? WHAT THE FUCK IS SHAKING MY BED?!?”
Definitely a relief to see some early buzz on the Internet (just a few tweets, and stories about earthquakes shooting to the top of the “Most Read Stories” on AJC.com), because otherwise there is Something under my bed, and I think I’m a little too old to be worrying about Monsters Under the Bed.
4.4 magnitude quake confirmed, noticed mainly in Tenessee and Georgia. Have a link to The Express and one to the local Fox News affiliate.
I’m glad the dust bunnies aren’t attacking. 4.4 is definitely noticeable, but unlikely to cause damage. There was a similar one in Elche (SE Spain) which did cause damage but it was to structures that had already been marked as being in bad shape.
We’ve had a whole bunch of 2 to 4 magnitude earthquakes here in the Dallas area, which seem to be caused by fracking wastewater injection.
The bigger, closer ones are noticeable- not really scary, but surprising. Kind of a “What was that vibration from the floor? Was that an earthquake?” sort of thing.
I experienced a similar thing - picture it, Sicily, 1983. Etna was erupting and I was awakened, thinking someone was kicking my bed. Except I had a room to myself. I assumed it was a dream.
Next morning, I discovered several items that had been on a shelf were now on the floor, and I figured it out. My first earthquake…
About 10 years ago, my wife and I went to the Smokies area for her to attend a seminar/retreat. We had just finished unpacking the van when, BA-BOOM! Wow! a tree must have fallen over nearby. NOPE! Earthquake. In the Smokies. :eek:
As for the OP, if you keep your feet under the covers, nothing can reach up and grab your ankle. From under the bed. Late at night. In the dark.
Or, try this:
Pff. In California, a 4.4 is not even worth opening your eyes for.
Onn time my wife and I were asleep, and were woken by a sudden shaking. She said “what’s that?” I mumbled “probably an earthquake” and went back to sleep. The next morning we discovered a very large tree had fallen on our house.
Found a thread on one of the earlier quakes I felt from 2003. That one was definitely stronger than this one.
While Californians might tut-tut about such a small quake, keep in mind that in the East the energy travels farther (fewer faults and such to moderate them). So more noticeable from fairly far away.
I didn’t feel a thing. That means i have now slept through an earthquake and a tornado. I’ll probably sleep through the comet collision due any time now…
A co-worker told me he had woken up for an early shift, and had just finished his morning prayers when the quake hit. Freaked him the hell out. I told him it was probably his fault.
Yah, we were out of town when that tornado, the one that blew windows off the Westin Peachtree Plaza, hit downtown Atlanta years ago. And my mom and dad were wakened by the Dunwoody tornado. Dad got up and wandered downstairs in his boxers shorts, opened the garage door to watch the strobe lightning, then went back to bed. Woke to no power, downed trees all over the street, a fatality two blocks over where a tree fell on a house. While he and Mom snored, all their neighbors had sensibly sheltered in their basements.
