Every year, it seems, an earthquake hits Lake County. The latest was a 2.5 near Madison earlier this week. One News 5 Facebook Page commenter reports, “We felt it – things moved in house.” Another wrote, “We definitely felt it on Ford Road. It was quick. Sounded like something hit the house.” Another said, “I didn’t feel ANYTHING here in Parma, but my cat had the zoomies at around that time. Maybe she sensed it.”
I have no way of verifying whether that Parma cat was aware of the earthquake, but for the purposes of making this piece 100 percent more interesting, I’ll add that one heads-up feline 50 miles away allegedly sensed the earthquake and warned its human with precautionary zoomies, according to a source.
These earthquakes are rarely strong. Every couple decades we get a “bigger” one like the 4.0 earthquake in 2019, the 4.5 out of Pennsylvania in 1998 and the 4.8 in 1986, which caused a record number of local zoomies. Lucky for us, most of our quakes are in the 1-2 range, which, on the scale of things that Northeast Ohioans worry about puts them somewhere between the Cincinnati Bengals and property taxes…