Earthquake

[Pontifex]

It's not very often that one awakes to the shaking of your house. Immediately I began to pray the rosary. Catholic ninja instincts I guess. No deaths to report, thanks be to Jesus.

5.4 on the scale.


We sit on the Madrid fault line. They have been saying we were going to have one any day for years.


He comes as a thief. I think I will have plenty of homily material on Sunday.


In Christ,

Fr. Pontifex

[Archaeology cat]

I just read about that - glad to know there weren't any deaths. They have been predicting an earthquake in that region for years. I was in grade school in Kentucky when they predicted a massive earthquake and canceled all the schools in our district.

[Pontifex]

Yes! Do you remember the earthquake insurance craze. I remember that as a kid.

Just got off the phone with one of our seminarians at Mundelein. He said he felt it up there!!! His bed was shaking!

[Archaeology cat]

Not sure about the earthquake insurance, but it does sound a little familiar.

Soundss like it was felt quite far away, too!

[Chiquitunga]

Man, I felt that this morning too. I was up all night working on a letter to a friend, and I was thinking maybe it was just someone moving around upstairs or something, or I was just really overtired. That's amazing.

[quote]The U.S. Geological Survey says this morning's quake happened in a region known as the Illinois basin-Ozark dome, which does not usually get quakes. The biggest on record, also a 5.4, happened in 1968.[/quote]

[url="http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/17906674.html"]http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/17906674.html[/url]

Edited April 18, 2008 by Margaret Clare

[icelandic_iceskater]

my house was shaking up here in Michigan.

[franciscanheart]

Heard about that earlier this morning. Glad everything/everyone is okay! Can't wait to read your homily... (You ARE going to post it, right?)

[Autumn Dusk]

I felt an earthquake once. I live New England and I was VERY angry because New england is not usually an earthquake prone place. I remember trying to blame all sorts of people. I was a mad little teenager and I was having a bad day.

[LouisvilleFan]

[quote name='Pontifex' post='1502479' date='Apr 18 2008, 07:56 AM']It's not very often that one awakes to the shaking of your house. Immediately I began to pray the rosary. Catholic ninja instincts I guess. No deaths to report, thanks be to Jesus.

5.4 on the scale.
We sit on the Madrid fault line. They have been saying we were going to have one any day for years.
He comes as a thief. I think I will have plenty of homily material on Sunday.
In Christ,

Fr. Pontifex[/quote]

Whereabouts are you located? I grew up in Paducah in western Kentucky. Seems like there's a small earthquake somewhere in that area about even ten years, but I've never felt them. I was fast asleep this morning.

This definitely wasn't "the one" though, that some loony predicted would happen back in 1990 (Dec 3rd or 4th... that's how big a deal it was, that I still remember the date). If that one hits within our lifetimes, it's gonna be a pretty big deal... like disaster relief stuff with a lot of damage in all these midwestern and southeastern cities where most buildings haven't been constructed to withstand an 8.0 earthquake.

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='LouisvilleFan' post='1502539' date='Apr 18 2008, 02:39 PM']Whereabouts are you located? I grew up in Paducah in western Kentucky. Seems like there's a small earthquake somewhere in that area about even ten years, but I've never felt them. I was fast asleep this morning.

This definitely wasn't "the one" though, that some loony predicted would happen back in 1990 (Dec 3rd or 4th... that's how big a deal it was, that I still remember the date). If that one hits within our lifetimes, it's gonna be a pretty big deal... like disaster relief stuff with a lot of damage in all these midwestern and southeastern cities where most buildings haven't been constructed to withstand an 8.0 earthquake.[/quote]
That was 1990 wasn't it. Yeah, I was in Owensboro, so everyone was freaked out because of the city being built on the Ohio. They kept running stories of what kind of a tidal wave would happen if the earthquake happened.

[isilzha]

I guess I slept through it.

[Pio Nono]

JMJ
4/18 - Fourth Friday of Easter

The visit of His Holiness got all of my classes cancelled, so I came home to Washington, IN to get a little rest before my S.T.B. exam on Wednesday.

The ONE day I come home, we have an earthquake!

If this is "the one" that they've been predicting for years, then it's kind of anti-climactic. However, we had another quake in the area about six years ago that centered in Darmstadt, IN. I forget the intensity, but my Dad was at a lunch meeting near there and he said it felt like a semi-truck had just hit the restaurant.

Shocked me awake this morning, to say the least. Lends a little excitement to my morning.

[u]BIBLE CONNECTION[/u]: There are three earthquakes ([i]seismoi[/i]) in the Gospel of Matthew -

1.) 8:24 - "And behold a great tempest ([i]seismos[/i]) arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves, but [Jesus] was alseep."
2.) 27:51 - "And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top even to the bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rocks were rent."
3.) 28:2 - "And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and coming, rolled back the stone, and say upon it."

Earthquakes, for Matthew, were always an unmistakable sign of God's presence, and of something great which was about to be revealed. Just a note of interest.

[Lounge Daddy]

Slept through it here. It was 5.4 for us here in Grand Rapids, Michigan and I think 5.2 closer to Chicago.

Edited April 18, 2008 by Lounge Daddy

[cmotherofpirl]

[url="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/"]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/[/url]

[hoosieranna]

My sister felt it in Fort Wayne. I didn't here in Illinois.