I'm new, and this is my first post here, but I relocated to Georgia when I remarried five years ago, and received an email from southern IL, where I lived before my marriage, and found that they were shaken badly, not only from the initial quake, but also from an aftershock a few hours later. I had not heard about the roads buckling in Cairo, but since it is directly on the New Madrid fault line, I'm not totally surprised. I came from the Herrin/Marion/Carbondale area, about 40 miles north of there and according to my email, everything was fine there.
First, welcome to DC, dolly. We're glad you're here.
As for the earthquake, as it turns out, our news reports say that the quake didn't come from the New Madrid Fault, but from another one. I don't remember the name they stated.
Still, we had a rockin' and rollin' good time this morning.