So who felt that earthquake?

[VA Chris]

5.8 Earthquake rolled through about 55 minutes ago. First time this East Coaster has ever felt one. Minor by West coast standards but we rarely get them around here. You could definitely feel the building rocking and rolling here in Winchester, VA.

 

[TOMMY RICH]

Yep...felt it here at Wright Patt. I'm on the 3rd floor of a 4 floor building and it shook! Weird thing is it was felt all the way to Ontario!

 

[Bruce Freeman]

Felt it here in Bel Air MD. Shock the shelves pretty good.

BF

 

[Jim B]

We felt it here in Boston, My building shook pretty good.

 

[Ken Sabin]

Im in Woodbridge,VA. I was at the computer, and EVERYTHING in the room started moving. Bookcases shook, stuff fell, house rocked !!



Way too cool.



Hope all is well at Bill in VA's house. He lives WAY to close to the epi-center!

 

[Bill McElroy]

didn't feel chit in MI!

 

[Scott Allen]

Yep. Felt it here at work in Frederick, MD. I got so used to them when I lived in Alaska, I didn't pay much attention to it until everyone started getting a little nuts in the building.



Scott

 

[Bill Hamilton]

Lake Anna was 5 miles from the epicenter. Shook the entite house and most eveything came off the walls, dressers and tall furnitore. Went otside and it sounded like a runaway freight train for ten minues after the initial shock.. Had aftershocks at 2.0 everbody is fine thank god. We still have the lake and it didn't go down a fissure.

 

[Jim in VA]

Felt it in Arlington, VA. Whole house shook for a good 30 seconds or more. Wife reported it was felt in DC (she works downtown).



Oh, did I mention that Hurricane Irene is due in the area this weekend?

 

[JP Heintzman]

Just barely felt it down here in Columbia, SC...That's a long way!:blink:



JP

 

[G8rmac]

Felt it at Andrews AFB in my 3rd floor cube. One small wave, enough to make people say "what was that?" The cube farm looked like a prairie dog town with all the heads popping up! Then the bigger wave had the building move pretty good. We evacuated, but just a couple of cracked windows.

 

[Berry Lindley]

I was in Haiti during that bad boy Jan 12 2010, and we had 5.6-5.8 aftershocks through the night and the next day. That place is still torn up, and bad. Was like being in a washing machine.

 

[Chris F.]

I heard that the one in Colorado was felt here(Kansas) but not by me.:blink:Chris F.

 

[Jim Clark]

did you feel that??

 

[ND Bass]

No motion here in ND/MN. Another of the top X reasons to live in ND....there are a few of those.

 

[Carlos Hathcock III]

Yep, aftershock Jim! Heard it before I felt it.

 

[ND Bass]

Maybe it was bad gas carlos?:lol::lol:

 

[fatrap]

still underwater here.

 

[davetnitro]

Not me, though i appreciate that the right coast gets a taste of the left coast...

you may find the aftershocks just as unnerving as the quake itself.... at least that

has been my experience.. in the 89 cali quake, epicenter about 10 miles from my house,

the after shakers had you wondering WTF....... hope everyone is safe.

 

[mike mcmenamin]

Felt the quake pretty good here in Penn. That was just a taste of the real thing.

Spent 20 years in California in the 60's and 70's. Todays 5.8 shook pretty good,

only three miles under ground. The one's on the west coast are deeper. The scale for

earthquakes is remarkable, the difference between a 5.8 and a 5.9, is that the 5.9 is

100 times more powerful. 6.0 is 100 times more powerful than a 5.9 and so forth.

Was with military in the 60's and we were called in with choppers in the 1970 quake.

Was only on the ground to fuel up and go.The firemen were remakable. Everybody was

leaving and they were going in. Thank God we have them.



Bill

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

See what happens when I come back to DC!!:lol::lol: Felt it good. Evacd to the street (stupid thing to do BTW) then felt the after shock watching the football game last night. My house is built on a cliff, that did increase the pucker factor a little!!



TOXIC

 

[TritonGlenn]

So Toxic comes back to DC and everyone "felt it" and "heard it", but nobody smelled it. Hmmmm... might have to change his nickname from Toxic to "SBD" (Silent But Deadly). :lol:



All the best,

Glenn

 

[Mini]

LOL!



It was felt here in Warren, MI but not my me. I am on the second floor (mezzanine) of the shop and the only people that felt it here were the women in the office. Strange....

 

[TOMMY RICH]

AHA!

All is solved! It was Toxic:lol:

Keep the beans away from that guy...PLEASE!:blink:

 

[Herndonpro]

Never felt a thing. I was in the boat on the Potomac. Didn't know a thing until I got in my truck and turned the radio on. Didn't seem to affect the fishing they bit all day.



Bill in VA glad to hear Martie and you are safe and that the Hot Side is still there.



Steve

 

[Mike Zechman]

Felt the building move here in Hershey pa

 

[Berry Lindley]

The Richter scale is a scale designed by A. Richter to measure the strength or intensity of the shock waves produced by an earthquake. The scale is measured in steps from one upward. Each successive unit is ten times more powerful than the one before. Therefore an earthquake that measures 7.0 on the Richter scale is 1000 times more powerful than an earthquake measuring 4.0.