Nightnote Kentucky correspondent and friend Janice felt it! The big midwest shaker shook her area and she sends us this report:

You Californians might think this is normal but I was awoken at 5:30 this morning with my house shaking and a making all sorts of noise! We had a 5.2 quake and an aftershock of 4 point something that was a bit dramatic because I’m on the 12th floor of a highrise at this time. I’ve never felt the ground move. It was weird. I thought it was an explosion but it kept moving. I like terra firma. When I woke up, my cat was about to bolt from bed. I grabbed her, both to calm her down and to snatch her up if it was bad enough to force us to leave in a hurry. I didn’t want to have to hunt for her. As far as I can tell, nothing was damaged but some stuff knocked off shelves. I’ll check for cracks again when I get home, especially chimneys because several in the neighborhood fell or look close to falling. It makes me want to move back to the deep alluvial plane of the Mississippi River!

Thanks for the report J. Learn more about Janice’s shaker at the USGS.

In other earth shaking news, the USGS sent out a report last week that “found that California is virtually certain to experience at least one major temblor by 2028,” read more at the LAT. And, yes moms, we have our earthquake kit in order.