Earthquake

[mosspack1]

Felt it in SC too. Thought I was going crazy until I checked Facebook.

[Cat]

So odd....I worked from home today, felt nothing (only learned of it through Twitter and FB)

Heard my office-mates felt it, and had a fire alarm. Everyone there is okay, though.

Going to be an interesting week, with this quake and Irene *maybe* visiting.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I went outside to see if anything weird was going on. Nothing. Was at the time pretty sure it was an earthquake. Got online right after and found an earthquake report confirming my suspicions.

Heard on the radio that they felt it down in Charleston, too. However, some people didn't feel it, or dismissed it. We have a quarry downtown, and if you work down there you get used to noise and shaking, so a lot of folks who did feel it shrugged it off. Radio DJs didn't feel it. Parents didn't feel it across the river. Kid at school down the street completely unaware of it.

I was in a second story room and sitting in a desk chair with my hands on the keyboard, so maybe I got a little more wobble than someone on the ground.

Getting reports on the local news sites of office workers in tall buildings feeling it. Makes sense.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

My mom said her chair started vibrating . . .so did the walls in her bedroom.

Funnily enough, the other side of the house wasn't shaking that much. My washer was on the spin cycle and for some strange reason it got really loud and started shaking a LOT.

We don't normally have earthquakes around here. Mom said the last time she recalled any tremors was when I was a toddler. I was at Grandma's house (just around the corner from my parents) when it happened (around 1970).

My cousin, who had been asleep at the time, jumped out of bed - Grandma was screaming all over the place and Mom had run out of the house and into the street heading toward us.

And little ol' me was running through the living room and fell . . . right in front of the tv that sat on a small table.

Luckily my cousin just managed to catch the tv right before it fell on me. Very scary stuff there.

[Seraph]

Heh, yeah we had a 5.8 here where I live in VA.

Should've taken the hint when my cats started bouncing off the wall, and then when my eardrums started....vibrating. That's the best word I can come up for it. Hurt like a mother.

Got out of my chair to see what the HECK was going on, when a loud noise started up outside and then the whole house started shaking. Sounded like a really loud and fast heartbeat. Then again, with my eardrums going nuts, that could've been mine. :P

I ran to get my kids and brought them into the living room. All the pictures were falling off the walls, so I just dragged a loveseat into the center real fast (thank you foot sliders) and had them sit there for a bit.

We're supposed to now be "on the alert" for aftershocks for the next day or two...

But yiee, never thought this would be something I'd experience out in VA of all states! LOL

[Greenday]

All I see on facebook is responses ranging from mass hysteria acting like they are expecting mass casualities or something to "There was an earthquake?". I understand the East Coast isn't accustomed to earthquakes but dear God. If, for the most part, the worst of the damage was stuff falling off the walls, don't act like the world is ending.

[MoonCat]

I actually didn't feel it but my co-workers did. People started leaving the building. We went across the street where we usually go for fire drills. I called home, got my sis and she said, "oh, you mean it wasn't the train?" (we live about a block from the railroad and when trains go through, we can feel the rumbling).

We had one last year in June, too.

[Greenday]

Someone just posted whining about how people who say it's not a huge deal need to shut up because it is. I responded that people just need to stop acting like the world is ending and she told me I'm an ass.

She was the biggest "the world is ending" poster.

[emax4]

Yeah, felt a bit of it here near downtown Pittsburgh. Some friends downtown said their windows popped, some photos fell off the wall. In our brick building here i just felt vibrations, but it was weird since I never experienced and earthquake before.

[KabeRinnaul]

I'm in Charleston, WV, and felt it slightly. My officer manager and I were having lunch and each of us thought the other was moving the table until we realized our chairs were wobbling too.

More concerned with the predicted hurricane, because Kheldarson and I are driving down to Charlotte Thursday to get our marriage license over the weekend.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Here is the USGS website with information about the earthquake we experienced shortly before 2:00 p.m. today in Virginia. I live in Arlington.

At first, it sounded like my dog running around upstairs. A second later I realized it was more like elephants, and the walls starting shaking and I heard a lot of rumbling. At the time I felt it, I was on the phone with someone in Philadelphia. I told them we were having an earthquake, hung up and ran out of the house. When I called back later, she said she was wondering if I was calling from California, then the earthquake tremors reached their area. She said it was spooky.

[Sapphire Silk]

All I see on facebook is responses ranging from mass hysteria acting like they are expecting mass casualities or something to "There was an earthquake?". I understand the East Coast isn't accustomed to earthquakes but dear God. If, for the most part, the worst of the damage was stuff falling off the walls, don't act like the world is ending.

Most East Coast folks are unfamiliar with earthquakes, so the panic is understandable. Buildings here have no earthquake codes, so we feel the shock a bit more than we would out West (speaking from experience here as I felt today's earthquake here in North Carolina, and have lived in California).

I went to Evil Empryss's house to check on the kids after it was over. The Evil Prince looked at me and said, "what earthquake?" He'd been too wrapped up in playing Minecraft.

I just got off the phone with my brother in Baltimore. He said everything fell off the shelves on the 3rd floor of his house, but the other two floors just rattled (he lives in an old 1920's house).

[Cat]

Most of my tweets and FB mgs were, "Did that really happen? "I felt it!!" to jokes. Thankfully, no panic.

Hearing about a few aftershocks, be careful if you're in VA

[NateTheChops]

We actually didn't feel anything in Salem. But that's no reason not to show your support to our survivors of course...

[Aethian]

Darn, didn't feel a thing here... I feel gyped.