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I was gonna offer the same. Also, when I was growing up in WI, we had occasional earthquakes. Alas, they always happened during the night, and never woke me up, so I never experienced them.

We had one here in NYC a couple years ago, also happening in the night (and that was apparently a really small one; not even picture frame moving quality).

Earthquakes everywhere.

If the Missouri one had happened more recently, we'd be talking about it a lot more, but at the time, few people in the area and no big buildings or anything - it was all frontier - so though it was hella bigger than the SF one, there was nowhere near the same destruction of buildings and people and fires.

Just like the Chicago fire - there was an even bigger one in Wisconsin at the same time, but the WI one wasn't burning down a huge city, so one never hears about it.