Earthquake

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

We had a 5.9 earthquake at 11:55 AM this morning. Nothing that would even bother west coast folks, but enough to make a bit of panic from the flatlanders here. Some stuff shook off the shelves and mirrors rattled in the store. They shut down the nuclear power plant and I was told they temporarily evacuated the Pentagon and other DC places. A few minor injuries are all I have heard of so far. Mostly it was panicked people trying to get in touch with their kids at college ...with the cell towers not working for a while, as well as internet also out briefly.

 

[Mossyhorn]

My sister called me and said her whole house shook. I live about 20 miles away from her and didn't feel any tremors. We live in the Susquehanna Valley.

 

[silver_pilate]

I woke up one day and thought we were having an earthquake. Then I remembered we were driving home from vacation and I was asleep in the passenger seat.

Glad everyone is ok up there. At least all I have to worry about out here is rattlesnakes, spiders, feral hogs, hail, lightening, and tornadoes.

--nathan

 

[Mitchell Knives]

It shook my house pretty good.

I was completely confused at first; felt like something crashed into the house.

 

[skilldust]

Never been in an earthquake, but some of those darn hurricanes will shake everything but the earth. Jerry

 

[Burl Source]

I didn't know you guys have earthquakes back East.
I'm leaning toward secret underground nuclear bomb testing.
Or some other secret government conspiracy.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Actually, we have them often, but they are so minor that people don't even notice them. Most of the time folks think a tractor trailer rolled by on the highway and caused the vibrations. When this one happened,at first, I though someone had run into the building with their car.

We haven't had a big one like this ( well, its big for here) in over 50 years, and the last wide-felt quake was in the 1800's. We have something that can be felt over a large area in Virginia and surrounding states, like this one, about once a century.

 

[sunshadow]

my wife was on the 9th floor of an office building downtown, she felt it. I was on the second floor of our house doing some goldplating and it didn't even slosh the beakers

-Page

 

[melsdad]

I did not feel anything because I was driving to work at the time. But when I got to work everyone was talking about it. They did evacuate buildings in Pittsburgh, and a few colledges shut down for the rest of the day, but It wasn't much of anything around here. but you were able to feel it.

 

[Frank Niro]

One afternoon years back I was sitting in an all glass waiting room in Las Angels when one of "those things" happened. At first no one wanted to say anything. Then we all were wanting to say the same thing which was "boy aren't you glad that's over - I hope?"
No need to send any of that to the west coast ! Frank