So who experienced their first earthquake today?

In My Humble Opinion
21

I live near ground zero, crazy stuff for Virginia. I had experienced a few minor earthquakes before here, many years apart, but nothing like this. It started off like deep thunder, then things started vibrating and shelves were swaying, went on for probably 20 seconds or more. We went outside and stayed out for a long time. There were a couple dozen aftershocks, it sounded like thunder underground along with the ground vibrating. I could actually point to where I heard/felt it, and that was exactly where the epicenter was, about 3.7 miles underground.

Various buildings lost brickwork, lots of stuff spilled off shelves and out of cabinets. There was stuff on the floor in about every room of my house, a good bit of broken glass to clean up. But couldn’t see anything structural.

22

A 6.0 is …puny.

23

I was very disappointed. I didn’t feel a thing. I wouldn’t even had known except my Mom called me to see if I was OK.

24

I live in NYC and work on a ground floor. I only noticed it because my boss built a really shitty table which started randomly wobbling…I figured it was me stirring my lunch. Then my co-worker called me and told me what happened. Apparently the higher up you were, the more you felt it. My mom lives in VA though and told me her knick knacks fell off the shelf and traumatized the cat.

25

It wasn’t my first - but like the two others, I didn’t notice it. Some people in my building felt it, but I did not.