Anyone else feel the quake?

BobS · August 23, 2011 3:14AM

Crazy. I'm in Columbus, Ohio and our building just shook for about a minute. We're on the top floor (3) and those on the lower floors felt nothing. Haven't checked the news, hope wherever this happened people are okay.

Far out.

twiley · August 23, 2011 3:18AM

We just had one here in Raleigh, NC too! Wow! I wonder if it was the same quake?

123Slider · August 23, 2011 3:18AM

Asked my wife, and she screams YES! She wasn't going to say anything because she thought I would call her crazy. Around Marietta, Ohio here.

richtree · August 23, 2011 3:21AM

center of it was in central Virginia

bighurt2000 · August 23, 2011 3:23AM

Thought it was the end of the world here in Maryland. My card collection tried
to kill me in my bed room, slab flying all over the place.

James

bobbyw8469 · August 23, 2011 3:24AM

Raleigh here - felt it as well.

SportsCardMan · August 23, 2011 3:24AM

I live in Richmond, VA and it was quite an experience.

artistlost · August 23, 2011 3:25AM

London, Ontario, Canada. Felt it too.

ga5150 · August 23, 2011 3:26AM

Yep, I'm in Central Maryland and we had the shakey shakes for a bit also. You Virginia folks probably felt it more than we did though.

Rodney

Ironmanfan · August 23, 2011 3:30AM

SE Penna; Felt it here as well

IMF

gameusedhoop · August 23, 2011 3:32AM

Salem, MA too. Only slightly noticable, but it did happen. Latest news is that it was almost a 6.0 (Chaz) centered in VA.

Hallco · August 23, 2011 3:33AM

The one in Va and the one in NY were not the same quake!

pomobileclk · August 23, 2011 3:35AM

Felt it here in Brooklyn, NY, All my bobbleheads were shaking in the cabinets

Southsider · August 23, 2011 3:39AM

I'm in Arlington, VA and I thought someone was ramming into my building! It wasn't until I looked outside and saw the windows in the nearby buildings shaking that I realized that it was an earthquake. Nothing fell off my walls, but stuff was definitely swinging back and forth.

hhmag70 · August 23, 2011 3:39AM

Central Pa - shook the furniture in the house.

thunderdan · August 23, 2011 3:44AM

I felt nothing in Seattle. Absolutely NOTHING.

But I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

alifaxwa2 · August 23, 2011 3:49AM

I am in the 7th floor of my building outside of DC. We definitely swayed.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0005ild.php

alifaxwa2 · August 23, 2011 3:49AM

If you felt it, go here and Share;
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/c0005ild/us/index.html

theskypilot · August 23, 2011 3:50AM

North East OHIO

Yes

itzagoner · August 23, 2011 3:51AM

<< I felt nothing in Seattle. Absolutely NOTHING.

But I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night. >>

ain't you guys still mopping up Fookooshima fallout?

YogiBerraFan · August 23, 2011 4:01AM

PA here, that was crazy!

miconelegacy · August 23, 2011 4:09AM

My wife is up at Duke everything was shaking she said. Wow big earthquake that was widespread plus another in NY? Crazy!

And we have a Monster hurricane poised to hit SC/NC.

I'm going to take me and the kids and hide in our safe!

zep33 · August 23, 2011 4:15AM

Everyone I work with here on Cape Cod felt it but me.

Funny how no one wanted to admit it until someone else did cause they thought it was just them. Wonder what they were doing at lunch

CrazyMind2017 · August 23, 2011 4:16AM

That was awesome! Makes me want to move to California.

Hallco · August 23, 2011 4:24AM

2012 preview show???

itzagoner · August 23, 2011 4:25AM

<< That was awesome! Makes me want to move to California. >>

oh goody. refugees.

Ironmanfan · August 23, 2011 4:31AM

so much for the PSA East Coast Office opening anytime soon

mlbfan2 · August 23, 2011 4:32AM

Photo of the earthquake damage in my yard...

pclpads · August 23, 2011 4:38AM

All you east coasters are a bunch of whining, panty-waist, lightweights. You'd all probably
s--t your pants if you experieced the 2010 Easter quake we had in El Centro, CA.
Try a 7.4 on for size. Just sayin' . . .

gumbyfan · August 23, 2011 4:43AM

My office building in downtown Milwaukee, WI shook for a while...as did a friend's building a few blocks away. At first I just assumed the crumbling foundation in this wretched building was finally starting to give way. When I got a text from my friend down the street, I realized it was an earthquake after all.

Lots of people in my office were making a big deal out of it, but frankly it was hardly noticable here.

Probstein123 · August 23, 2011 4:45AM

nothing in Passaic

TonyC · August 23, 2011 4:49AM

<< Photo of the earthquake damage in my yard...

>>

Didn't feel anything in Rhode Island, must have missed it.

Southsider · August 23, 2011 4:55AM

<< All you east coasters are a bunch of whining, panty-waist, lightweights. You'd all probably
s--t your pants if you experieced the 2010 Easter quake we had in El Centro, CA.
Try a 7.4 on for size. Just sayin' . . . >>

Keep in mind that earthquakes in this area are pretty rare. It may have been small by CA standards, but our buildings are not designed to absorb vibrations the same way as those in CA are. So, it may very well have been a more frightening experience for some in this area than a 7.4 would have been for you seasoned earthquake pros in California.

Indy78 · August 23, 2011 5:11AM

I'm in D.C., and felt it, of course. It lasted all of about 10 sec., and although large for this area, seemed relatively minor over all. My wife called from my home in Northern VA and said that it knocked a few things over including a stack of 2011 Topps Heritage I had on a shelf, but no big deal. She was very rattled though.

fattymacs · August 23, 2011 5:18AM

Didn't notice it here in NW Ohio.

grote15 · August 23, 2011 5:20AM

I'm in NY and my whole building shook. We were evacuated for about 30 minutes. Nice paid break, lol..

uyu906 · August 23, 2011 5:20AM

Sure did - here in Harrisburg, PA.

Brian48 · August 23, 2011 5:22AM

Felt it here in Boston.

swartz1 · August 23, 2011 5:22AM

Shippensburg PA

was in the Ag shop at the High School and just thought someone was on the roof working on the vents...

PaulMaul · August 23, 2011 6:01AM

I, my wife, and 2 children had gone to the Paramus Park Mall in Paramus, NJ for lunch after visiting the Paramus Children's Museum. We left the mall after lunch and sat down briefly at some benches outside. Five minutes later a bunch of people came out saying the mall was being evacuated and that the building was shaking, etc. They were very panicky and yet sitting outside, we never felt a thing. Very odd.

mccardguy1 · August 23, 2011 6:05AM

I am working just outside of Chicago and was on a phone with a client who is in Baltimore when he suddenly went quiet.....and after about twenty seconds said..."whoa...whoa..what the heck!! I think we are having an earthquake".

My son in law works in DC and he said the building swayed for a minute but all seems to be well at this point.

thunderdan · August 23, 2011 6:09AM

<< 

<< I felt nothing in Seattle. Absolutely NOTHING.

But I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night. >>

ain't you guys still mopping up Fookooshima fallout?

>>

Not really. We're still just luvin' us some fresh fish....

pmcollectour · August 23, 2011 6:12AM

<< I, my wife, and 2 children had gone to the Paramus Park Mall in Paramus, NJ for lunch after visiting the Paramus Children's Museum. We left the mall after lunch and sat down briefly at some benches outside. Five minutes later a bunch of people came out saying the mall was being evacuated and that the building was shaking, etc. They were very panicky and yet sitting outside, we never felt a thing. Very odd. >>

Same thing here. The people outside didn't notice it. The people inside came running out of their buildings.

StickNutzman · August 23, 2011 6:14AM

Our office building shook in Columbus, OH... but only the people on the 2nd floor noticed. When I got home, my trash can was knocked over. SOMEONE CALL FEMA!

miconelegacy · August 23, 2011 6:27AM

That's not funny, but yet I laughed out loud....

shagrotn77 · August 23, 2011 6:29AM

Felt it here in Northern NJ on the 5th floor of my building.

jay0791 · August 23, 2011 6:50AM

My wife works in Albany NY and she called and said, "did you feel that." I said no.....was working outside all day and didn't feel a thing just 15 miles away.

twiley · August 23, 2011 7:06AM

<< Photo of the earthquake damage in my yard...

>>

Funny I saw the same picture on this site.

DC Earthquake Devastation

Yankees001 · August 23, 2011 8:37AM

I didn't feel anything in Lima Oh. Although where I work the machines already vibrate the floor, so who knows.

Dave

SidePocket · August 23, 2011 8:38AM

We have 5.9's for breakfast here in Southern Cal. Probably pretty scary back east though.

ICE9 · August 23, 2011 10:05AM

Lot of folks felt it here in Buffalo. My office faces the runway of Buffalo Niagara airport; EVERYTIME a planes takes off the walls rattle, so I didn't notice a thing.

Anyone else feel the quake?

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