The Dayton Daily News reports that a small, 2.8 richter scale earthquake hit in the Dayton area Monday night.  The earthquake apparently caused a loud “Boom” sound.  Excerpt and link:

Three miles underground just north of Lake Loramie in Shelby County, some rocks did a little horizontal slide over the Anna-Champaign fault, and the earth danced a little jig for miles around Monday evening, Sept. 29, said Michael Hansen, coordinator of the Ohio Seismic Network.

Bob Blake and his wife were in different rooms of their New Bremen home watching television at 9:06 p.m. when they felt the rumble and heard a loud bang.

“We immediately thought of a tree in our backyard that was damaged by the windstorm and thought it might have fallen over on the house,” Blake said.

Full story:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/09/30/ddn093008quakeweb.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=16

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