August 23rd, 2011 at 2:07 PM ^
Super annoying, it knocked out the water in my NYC apartment...
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:08 PM ^
We need a SitRep on MGoShoe and Magnus, STAT. Move, people!!
August 23rd, 2011 at 3:09 PM ^
My building shook REALLY good from my 4th floor desk. Pentagon and Capital were evacuated due to the thought of being a bomb. Traffic is already really backed up. Someone has said the monument is tilted but it looks just fine from here.
August 23rd, 2011 at 7:14 PM ^
I was in Reston, VA at my companies headquarters. I was on the 7th floor and I initially thought my eyes were playing tricks on me until me, my supervisor and my department executive all looked at each other. I looked out the window and to see the windows of an adjacent 10 story building rippling and the whole building shaking, was very unnerving. I then had to worry bout getting back out to my job site to make sure my guys on the construction site were alright.
Never felt anything like that before. Hated having to find out the office building itself has only ONE staircase and it is hardly quick enough to get out of the building.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:09 PM ^
Felt it last night in Denver. Any other MGoers in the Mile High City?
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:19 PM ^
No way I felt that after putting a 2 month old to bed.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:44 PM ^
Its normal not to feel any physical or mental pain for at least the first 6 months of infancy. I remember not even knowing where I was half the time.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:16 PM ^
Just for clarification, the CO earthquakes aren't anything worth noting. Earthquakes happen sometimes in that part of the country, but these ones were small. The VA earthquake, on the other hand, is a big deal. [/geology nerd]
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:17 PM ^
They say it's the biggest quake in CO since '73...
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:21 PM ^
I think he means it might have to do with the frequency of the earthquakes. I know that out here in CA I experience a fair amount of them so I might be more used to them than others. Although the big ones are never good, no matter how experienced you may be.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:23 PM ^
Yeah, I was in the process of editing to clarify when you posted. What I meant was that they weren't noting because they were small. Sorry for not being more clear originally...
August 23rd, 2011 at 3:13 PM ^
I've also heard that there were some unusual ones in New Mexico yesterday, too.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:11 PM ^
I'm in DC and we REALLY felt it.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:49 PM ^
Felt it while I was watching a BF3 video. Went through:
"Awesome!"
"THIS GAME IS AMAZING, ITS SHAKING MY HOUSE!!!"
"That's not the game at all, GTFO"
"Awesome!"
over a span of about a minute.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:58 PM ^
In DC (technically NoVA) also, and I just read that it was the largest ever recorded in DC. Definitely wasn't expecting that today.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:12 PM ^
I felt some shaking but found out it was my dryer. Im in Western Indiana
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:12 PM ^
I'm in Norther Virginia, about twenty miles from the epicenter, and we were shaking for a solid 10-15 seconds. A small one hit at first that lasted for about 5 seconds, and then the big one hit about 30 seconds later. Building are fine, but there have been a lot of traffic incidents.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:13 PM ^
Felt it in Ann Arbor. I am sitting in a Starbucks and thought a big semi went by and there was just a couple small cars going by the cafe.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:17 PM ^
hmm, i work in aa, but guess i must have missed it. but im also in a basement dont know if that matters.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:13 PM ^
I'm in a basement lab in Frederick, MD, and we felt it good here. Freaky shit...
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:30 PM ^
In Frederick, MD. Felt it very good wall bending around.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:15 PM ^
Is Ace ok? we can't afford to lose him already..
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:27 PM ^
Don't worry. He has been safely secured in MGo Force One.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:15 PM ^
to control that finger!
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:17 PM ^
Didn't feel it.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:18 PM ^
Felt it pretty well down here in Charlotte, NC - diplomas on the wall wobbled. Crazy!
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:32 PM ^
Yeah, felt the same thing you felt, I am from Greensboro, NC. Hello: Fellow North Carolinian...
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:35 PM ^
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:42 PM ^
North Carolina raise up?
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:46 PM ^
And yes I felt the quake.
August 23rd, 2011 at 3:49 PM ^
I wonder how many states, if any, have been hit by an earthquake and a hurricane within a one-week period . . . I bet its only happened a handful of times, if any!
August 23rd, 2011 at 4:00 PM ^
was in the same time span as my first NYC hurricane, but can't remember exactly what the time span was. (That earthquake had an epicenter in Westchester-- woke me up wondering if our boiler 11 floors down had burst because I did hear rumbling-- my bed was definitely moving.) Seems to me there was also a third flukey thing that year-- meaning each was flukey for NYC.
August 23rd, 2011 at 3:24 PM ^
In Concord here and no shakey. Maybe I dozed off at my desk and missed it.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:18 PM ^
Having spent a lot of time in Japan and California, I knew it immediately and stood up in my office and said, "Earthquake." Noone here had ever been in one. Some damage here in RTP.
Intellicast is pretty sweet for looking at seismic activity and weather. http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMapFull.aspx
Click on the seismic graph icon to see the data.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:21 PM ^
I felt it in GR but in reality, it was Tony Posada heading back to Tampa.
Too soon?
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:21 PM ^
Kinda disappointed that I missed it... probably the only negative to being on the west coast this summer.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:22 PM ^
Weird...earthquakes in VA, but we haven't had one that I've noticed in California for a while now...
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:24 PM ^
It is crazy that some people have never experience an earthquake before. I guess I hav gotten so used to it from growing up in California.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:33 PM ^
But do you experience snow and ice?
August 23rd, 2011 at 3:51 PM ^
Only if I go snowboarding or fishing up in the mountains.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:24 PM ^
so that I forgot to eat lunch. But when I saw my condiment shelf the kitchen swinging and the {open} under-sink doors moving...
Turned on the TV, but nobody interrupted the soaps, but got an e-mail from a buddy in Soho (I'm on the UWS of NYC) asking if there was an earthquake... And then I looked up, and sure enough, the Blog gives me the answer before local or network news.
August 23rd, 2011 at 3:01 PM ^
I was skype-chatting with the guy from Metalsucks when his apartment shook. Twitter already had a bunch of reports. It's fun to beat the networks :)
August 23rd, 2011 at 3:15 PM ^
We've had enough of our Master Bloggers being lured away by media sources they've trumped!
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:29 PM ^
I'm on the ground floor of a building in Grand Rapids. The room was gently swaying back and forth - I thought I was coming down with a flu bug or something until I heard it was an earthquake.
I was in the upper deck in Tiger Stadium teh last time I felt an earthquake. Not something you expect in Michigan.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:30 PM ^
In Pittsburgh
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:30 PM ^
What's Charlie Weis doing stumbling around in Virginia? Thought he was with the Gators...
August 23rd, 2011 at 3:40 PM ^
he stepped off the shore onto a boat for fishing and the continental US tilted NE like a see-saw.
August 23rd, 2011 at 5:27 PM ^
According to Rep Hank Johnson, if you put too many people on Guam it might tip over. See link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:34 PM ^
so the epicenter was 20 miles from the lake anna nuclear plant in virgina, it was a 5.9 magnitude and the plant was developed to withstand a 5.9-6.1, close call
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:34 PM ^