EARTHQUAKE!

[dkn1997]

Im on long island and just felt it.  originated in w. virginia, 5.8.  hope everyone there is ok.

[Old Moparz]

Felt it here in Newburgh, too. Funny thing is, the building where my office is shakes more when they bring an excavator into the shop.   

[bakerhillpins]

+1

Dude.. I'm here in central VT at work and felt it. Wife is calling her parents in NoVa.

USGS has some good info:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

Here is the Shakemap from this one:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake/c0005ild/

[bobs66440]

It was shaking here in the Outer Banks, SC. No damage but it was definitely moving things in the house. That's a first for me. They upgraded it to 5.9, centered near Richmond.

[BrianShaughnessy]

My test floor here on the 2nd floor here at work in Poughkeepsie NY was rockin.     Called home,  the house was rockin also.

First time I ever felt one.     No apparent damage in the vicinity.

[68RRFlyer]

I'm on Long Island too and felt it.  Went to the USGS site.  5.9 centered around Louisa, VA (NW of Richmond) at about 3 miles deep.  Very shallow and why it was felt so far away.  I'm on the 4th floor of the hotel and stuff was defenitely moving.  Crazy!

[Neal_J]

(Hearing no reports of damage on the news & presuming everyone's OK)

Wimps....

Neal J. from NorCal

[Old Moparz]

Wimps....

Neal J. from NorCal

Wimps? It's not a wimp thing if it's just something you aren't used to, like when Ponch had to scrape frost off his windshield in So Ca & froze his fingers.   

[DC_1]

Felt a little jiggle here in Toronto. I was on the phone with someone in New Jersey at the time. He said "Hey I think we are having a earth quake the building just moved"  I said, you better look out your window for the mushroom cloud in case it is something more nefarious!  

[Domino]

Been an hour and cell towers are still jammed up with call traffic!

I have a non-quake related call to make, please make room, haha 

[WV69RT]

I didn't feel it... 3.5 hours from Richmond, but my co-workers did. 

[RECHRGD]

Now they will have to upgrade the seismic zones on the east coast.  Should create a lot of construction work in the area to bring buildings up to the NEW codes.  There's always a bright side.

[hemi68charger]

God's way of shaking up Congress.............. and..........  Well, I'm not at liberty to say................

[Manfred318]

I felt nothing here in Central NC. Alot of my friends around here felt it tho. Ive been outside all afternoon so I figured I would have felt something.

[Ponch ®]

5.8? 

call me when you have a 6+ one...

[Johnny SixPack]

5.8? 

call me when you have a 6+ one...

Been through a 7.9 centered in the Gulf of AK while I was in Anchorage.

Watched the concrete slab of the officer's quarters housing we were living in undulate like water.

A lot depends on whether the S wave or P wave is strongest (IIRC), and also the duration.

Here's some cool info 'bout earthquake physics:

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/waves.html

I kinda miss 'em.

Reminds you how tiny man and his accomplishments really are in the face of God/nature.

[Budnicks]

Most all of us west/left coasters especially here in Cali are pretty use to them, don't even seem to notice much until above 5.0 on the Richter scale, hope nobody got hurt or lost a cool Mopar..

[bobs66440]

Most all of us west/left coasters especially here in Cali are pretty use to them, don't even seem to notice much until above 5.0 on the Richter scale, hope nobody got hurt or lost a cool Mopar..

Yeah, where I was it wasn't really dramatic...more curious, like whoa, was that an earthquake?? Many here never felt it before, that's why it's such a big deal...

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Yeah, where I was it wasn't really dramatic...more curious, like whoa, was that an earthquake?? Many here never felt it before, that's why it's such a big deal...

I agree....I had to rub my eyes to make sure I was actually seeing the floor moving....lasted a good 20-30 seconds!  

[Musicman]

I was driving to work in the Norfolk,VA area... never felt a thing. I got to work and everyone was asking me about the quake that just came through.... what quake?

[Chryco Psycho]

I experienced a quake once , I was driving a dump truck down the highway , maybe I started it but I sure couldn't feel anything LOL
I hope everyone/thing is Ok

[resq302]

I was asleep at the time it happened so either I slept through it and the dog didnt do anything or we did not feel it in West Milford.  My wife felt it in Rockaway at her job yet another part of Rockaway at my daughters daycare did not feel it.  My dad felt it in Boonton, NJ at my grandmothers house yet in another part of the house, my grandmother and mother did not feel it.

[1969chargerrtse]

Now they will have to upgrade the seismic zones on the east coast. Should create a lot of construction work in the area to bring buildings up to the NEW codes. There's always a bright side.

Good point.  Many new elevators do have seismic sensors for earthquakes.  I felt my truck rock back and forth in Milford Ct.

[dkn1997]

5.8? 

call me when you have a 6+ one...

right when it hit, we had a salesman in our office. he's from CA.  we were all running around with swollen boners shouting "2012....2012....! I'm comin' Elizabeth!" he was pretty much asking when we were due back in boystown and saying he had chunks of guys like us in his stool lol.....

[bull]

We had a 5.6 magnitude early morning quake here in Oregon in 1993 which was interesting. But then for the next 3 days or so the news crews went around interviewing people on the radio and TV asking people about it and all they could come up with was about a million variations of "I just woke up and everything was shaking." That got real old after about two hours.