Earthquake in VA

[Mr Shrike]

I didn't feel it at all...

...but that could be because I live in the UK.

I hope no-one was hurt, though.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I know some people in PA felt it, but I wasnt part of them. Overall, it was rather disappointing. Least it could have done was topple the Crapitals stadium.

 

[Guy32]

Live 30 min from DC and felt it. Woke me up.

 

[silversnake4133]

Lulz, I felt it, but nothing in my room moved, not even the loose-leaf papers scattered about, or my track medals hanging from a shelf. I thought I had gone crazy for a moment. I can just see the people on the West coast who might have heard of this are already rolling their eyes and saying "Oh yeah well we have those and worse all the time, so stop acting like it's a big deal." Funny how they fail to see that they're on a major fault line, we East Coasters on the other hand aren't.

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[Stuntcrab]

I felt it. Scared the shit out of my cats

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

Felt it, here in Northern Ohio. Wasn't much, didn't surprise me that it was in Virginia.

I am in Northern Ohio as well and didn't feel a damn thing. I've got friends all over the state though, and their all talking about it.

 

[oppp7]

Hahaha oh you east coasters. I'm in Southern California and we get these every other few months.

Overreacting much? 5.9 is nothing guys . I know you have no earthquakes in that zone but this is so silly . People scared , telling other people where they were when it happened like it was some kind of a disaster . Only way someone could have died would have been from a panic attack or something .

Well ya, we obviously know it's not a big disaster, but since it's the first one many of us remember it's interesting and exciting.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

New Jersey here, felt it as well. Nothing fell over though, thankfully

 

[Double A]

Felt it inside, not outside. That was certainly weird.

I felt it. Scared the shit out of me because I didn't know what it was at first.

Edit: For those curious, it was a 5.9 (at time of typing) and I heard it was felt from Boston to S. Carolina.

I heard Toronto to Georgia.

 

[Dango]

I live very close to New York City, and I was sleeping at the time so I felt nothing.

 

[duchaked]

I heard it was felt in my area, but I myself didn't notice anything

 

[For.I.Am.Mad]

God, 24 hour news is making it sound like the worlds about to end.

 

[The Eyeball Moose]

I just heard about that. I should have felt that.

 

[Blow_Pop]

I've been laughing for the past hour at the frantic tweets and facebook messages about people freaking out about how its the end of the world since the East Coast had an earthquake. Try living on/next to a fault line and then we can talk. It really says something about where society has gone now that you hear more about stuff like this on twitter and facebook then on the news.

 

[Yopaz]

Overreacting much? 5.9 is nothing guys . I know you have no earthquakes in that zone but this is so silly . People scared , telling other people where they were when it happened like it was some kind of a disaster . Only way someone could have died would have been from a panic attack or something .

OK, so being in a lab where there are corroding chemicals while there's an earthquake in progress can't leave you with damages due to chemicals? Also who's over reacting here? Most of them says it felt weird. As far as I can see people share how it felt and nothing more.

 

[dancinginfernal]

In New Hampshire, didn't feel jack.

Bacon.

 

[loc978]

Lulz, I felt it, but nothing in my room moved, not even the loose-leaf papers scattered about, or my track medals hanging from a shelf. I thought I had gone crazy for a moment. I can just see the people on the West coast who might have heard of this are already rolling their eyes and saying "Oh yeah well we have those and worse all the time, so stop acting like it's a big deal." Funny how they fail to see that they're on a major fault line, we East Coasters on the other hand aren't.

...I must admit, when I read "it was a 5.9 at the time of posting", I had that reaction. I mean, 5.9 isn't tiny, hell, the last one I actually felt was in 2003, and it happened a little bit into the Pacific Ocean (January 16th - Blanco Fracture Zone - Offshore Oregon, - Magnitude 6.3). All it really did was rattle the house I was in a little bit... not a big quake by any stretch.
It's funny, I was living on a base in Virginia later that year, and I got to see the edge of Hurricane Isabel... those we don't see in these parts, though we do average around two small quakes per day [http://www.pnsn.org/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html].

 

[Turigamot]

Shelf fell from wall. Avalanche of books. Sadness.

 

[Kingsnake661]

I live in northern Kentucky, and didn't feel anything, but i got people i work with over the river in Cincy said they did. *shrug* 5.9 isn't a big quake as far as i know. Which isn't much granted, being in Kentucky, i don't recall ever accually FEELING an earth quake, dispite people saying we've had mini ones before. I'd imagian a 5.9 barely regesiters in the west coast. LOL