All-Star Earthquake In Va

[SharkDad]

Been through a lot of these growing up in Cali. Some very strong ones. Depending on the ground and faults where you live the same size earthquake can have very different results.

I'm glad that a 5.8 (or 5.9 depending on the report) on the east coast caused very little damage and I haven't heard of major injuries.

 

[ccchampsbridget]

I live in New Jersey and I didn't notice the earthquake.:confused:

 

[chyeeaaa69]

I felt it way up here in Canada!
The news station I watched last night said it was felt in 22 states, and like I said, felt up here.

 

[njallday]

i definitely felt it in NJ. I actually thought I was having a vertigo spell since I get them occasionally, but I wasn't :) people were running off the beach in fear of a tsunami, though :confused: i guess that is what happens when there are earthquakes in nj lol

 

[Just.Keep.Twisting]

Yep! I was in the middle of class when it happened. School is accually closed today due to damage in the schools.
I accually also tweeted and updated my facebook status, and then called my mom :D

 

[Jamie Flynn]

i live in jersey. we were having cheer practice outside and none of us felt anything! we didn't even know there was an earthquake until our parents started calling us asking if we were okay because they all felt it. it was so weird!

 

[kaylaxlaylaa]

I'm at school up in the mountains of NC, some students say the felt it while others didnt. I felt it but honestly I just thought the ground was vibrating, cause I was sitting in the dining hall with my roommate eating and she said the same thing. At the time we didnt realize it was an earthquake and we were just joking messing around saying it was the giants they hired to clean the dishes under the d-hall walking around. First day of classes our sophomore year of college and our reasoning for the floor shaking is giants, sadly it doesnt surprise me. lol

 

[ShoWStoppeR]

well, apparently it was felt in pittsburgh, but i guess little old slippery rock is so small that geographically we're just non existent. in fact, it's just a made up town, kind of like neverland in peter pan.

 

[hotTOPIC]

Like I said I live in VA about 69 miles away from the center and it was more of the noise then the ground shaking that made it scary. It was SOOOOOO loud. I was home with my little brother and 80 year old grandma(my parents were out), and it start off light and made you question what was that and then stopped for a second then stared again but MEGA intense, words can't describe what it felt and sounded like. I was yelling from my room to my brother telling him to stand under his door frame. It was crazy so surreal, like just hear the pounding and see my walls go in and out and things fall. Like every noise I heard last night while I was trying to sleep jump, pause and stay still, I was so paranoid, I had hard time falling to sleep. I don't know how people on the west coast deal with it.

 

[Deleted member 1556]

i live in massachusetts and we felt small aftershocks!

Really? I live in MA and got nothing. CRazy stuff.

 

[cheerislove8]

Really? I live in MA and got nothing. CRazy stuff.

I heard you would really only feel it up here if you were in a tall building up on an upper floor.

 

[werk-meowt]

i live in MA and i felt my chair shake but i had no idea that it was the aftershock of an earchquake until like 10 minutes later, but the stores around where i was said that stuff was falling off the shelves

 

[xxcheer77xx]

I know this is kinda off topic.. But I live in Chicago and a couple years ago we had a earthquake and it shook my bed at 3 AM. I just wanted to feel cool like the rest of you and share my midwest/northeast earthquake story :)

 

[INeverStopCheering]

I live in Chesterfirld Va, which is like 20, 30 miles from Louisa which is where I believe it started. I'm surprised buildings in DC actually had damage. I was at school painting sets over the summer. Our stage is actually a little under ground so it didn't shake, but all the heavy metal doors and set pieces started banging. We just thought it was the wind, it lasted a few minutes. Then we got freaked out call from our parents panicking and saying there had been an earth quake. My gym owner said she thought a truck had hit the building. As far as damage, we spilled a can of pain on the stage...does that count?

 

[FamousxMindset]