ah! i thought the midwest was immune to this! i thought our unique scourge was tornados, apparantly i was wrong. luckily i live by train tracks so house shaking is not unfamiliar territory.
my mom's commentary on this event:
mom: you know how everyone says california is going to break off from the continent one day because of its earthquakes? my theory is, what will actually happen is the midwest will break down the middle, and chicago will become the new east coast!
me: mom, we don't have nearly as many earthquakes as california.
mom: there was that one back in 1998!
me: do we have them MONTHLY?
mom: oh.
but i do really like the idea of chicago becoming like, a second new york. oh wait it already is. BUT BETTER.