http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00lqe6x3.php#details
**USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/
Prelim info: 5.8 in Viriginia.
My notes: 30 Secs of rolling action in Phila, PA area.**
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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/32.42.-85.-75.php
Initial intensity 5.8.
Interestingly, there was another in the 5 range near the CO-NM border today, as well.
My point here was that I don’t work anywhere near the ground floor, so feeling it in a tall building was more than a little strange.
Really? I didn’t feel a thing. But a friend in PA e-mailed me to say that her whole office was shaking.
I’m in NC too! It woke me up!
The previous record for this area was apparently 3.6 and this one is currently at 5.9.
Just outside Quantico here; thought it might’ve been a demolitions exercise at first. Scary stuff!! All my neighbors are outside sharing info as we can; no outgoing phone service, but some calls are coming in.
Me and all my FB friends felt it in Northeast Ohio. There’s a baseball game in downtown Cleveland ad the moment and they said on the radio that the press box was shaking.
It lasted a long time, about 3 minutes!
I have other reports from Pittsburgh, NC and NJ.
Columbus, OH. Quite noticeable, here. It rattled the windows of the house and made me feel a little dizzy for a second.
Also noted here in Chapel Hill, North Carolina as a few seconds of side-to-side motion. (I was on the 4th floor). Also the first time I’ve experienced one.
My first one. Nothing broken here except my earthquake cherry.
Celtling and I are OK. Scared, but OK.
Man, I lived in LA for years and never had one more than 4 something. A 5.9 quake is pretty damn big.
I felt nothing down here in Charleston, SC though. So if it got to NC it didn’t make it down to the coast.
Washington DC here – and I was standing in a safety agency when it happened, so there’s a lot of professional interest here. And some wobbly legs – we’re on the 8th floor and there was definite swaying.
USGS has updated to a 5.9 magnitude, 83 miles from DC.
edit: cell phone network is busy/unavailable, no surprise.
Yeah, that was fun! MD here, too - at first I thought it was just someone moving furniture or construction or something, and was ignoring it. Then I heard someone say, “What’s happening?” and I was like, “Hey, wait… what is happening?” I hope my kid and my cat weren’t too freaked out.
In Chapel Hill too, on the 2nd floor. I didn’t know what was going on
Three minutes? What the hell is that ball park built on?! Springs?! :eek:
:rolleyes:
Felt here in South Carolina too. :eek:
Why didn’t I feel it? 