[Erin524]

There was just a magnitude 3.5 earthquake in Auburn, NE. (about 85mi from Omaha where I live)

It was at 9:04pm. I felt it, altho at the time I thought it was just a big truck going by outside.

Nebraska isnt a place where you think we'd have an earthquake, but I know it's possible because we've had them before. (small ones) We even have a fault that runs thru eastern Nebraska. (the Humboldt fault)

I remember being in one back in the early to mid 90s. Only reason I know that I felt it was because it knocked over a bunch of videotapes that I had stacked in my room at the time.

I'm still not sure if what I felt wasnt just a truck driving by. (I'm in a residential neighborhood, not many huge trucks driving down our street at 9 at night) I'm waiting to see if it was really felt in Omaha.

[Debbie D]

That is very weird. Wonder if you're on the Madrid fault, or whatever they call that Midwest fault line...

[Erin524]

Nope, not the New Madrid fault...we're on the Humboldt fault.

[AZjanie]

When we were still living in the Southeast corner of Iowa we had a small quake. Tornados we can deal with but earthquakes??

We moved to Toledo, Ohio years later and there was a Quake there! Geesh; maybe we were causing them??

Now; we are in Northwest Arizona and so far we haven't had one or a tornado, flood, hurricane, blizzard or monsoon.

H'mmm guess we'll stay here.

[freeinhou]

We had a tremor in Toledo back in 1988 or 1989. The epicenter I think was in SW Illinois near St. Louis. It rattled the china in the china cabinet. Otherwise, not really noticeable.

I chased Tornados growing up in SE Michigan. Never caught one - I blame the slow news guys on the radio. It was kinda fun driving around trying to catch them with our case of Stroh's and...

I really don't like natural disasters, but I think the worst would be a catastrophic fire. It's amazing how much you can retrieve when a hurricane rips your house away and dumps 4 feet of ocean in your living room. We saved about 15% of our possessions (my wife claims 0%, but she's the one who lost 150 pairs of shoes). Ya can't do that in a fire.

Tom