Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Center in Golden, Colorado, says they located the earthquake around Sikeston and Charleston. She says they've had a large number of felt reports indicating it was widely felt regionally and even felt hundreds of kilometers away.
Vaughan says several people in Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee reported being awakened by the quake that happened at 3:58 a.m. A few residents of North Carolina, Alabama, Indiana and Georgia also felt it.
Vaughan says it is considered a light earthquake with maybe some minor damage possible with things falling off walls and maybe some cracks. Viewers have reported cracks in walls and things fallings off walls. There have been no major reports of damage.
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Clifford Rolwing lives about 500 feet from the epicenter. He says he did not have major damage, but find some cracks in some stones in the foundation around his home.
When the quake hit, Rolwing says he was about half asleep, but didn't stay that way for long.
"It got louder and louder and I thought 'Wow, what a blast of thunder,'" said Rolwing. "And continued to rumble and I thought 'No, there's something else' My first thought was maybe a truck semi may have come off the road and was heading toward our house and then it began to rumble more. I thought, it dawned on me what it was."
Experts say this is not likely to be a preview of a bigger quake on the famous New Madrid fault, but the 4.0 magnitude is on the larger end of about 200 quakes that occur on fault annually.
Who felt it?Shaun Bell with the Mississippi County Sheriff's Department says they felt the earthquake and received several phone calls with some people saying it sounded like a vehicle was dragged through their house.
Insurance agent Tim Bryant says now is the time for homeowner to get out their insurance policy. "Earthquake insurance is not a requirement on a policy and it is an add on or an option that the insured has to pay a little extra premium for to get it

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