To those of you who, like me, are in the Eastern USA: how are you?
We've been shaken, rattled, and rolled a bit here in a "vibrate your drinking glass across the table and onto the floor" sort of way. It wasn't my first earthquake, but it was my first one here. Virginia growled as if she thought it to be a particularly unwelcome FedEx delivery person. (She's still planted at the front door, keeping guard, as I type this.) Fortunately, I don't see any significant damage at first glance. I need to check on my friends, family, and colleagues to the north.
How about everyone else?
It looks like this is being classified a 5.9 quake (I've seen as high as 6.2 in various reports.)
Earthquake in Virginia felt in New York, Washington, and North Carolina
We've been shaken, rattled, and rolled a bit here in a "vibrate your drinking glass across the table and onto the floor" sort of way. It wasn't my first earthquake, but it was my first one here. Virginia growled as if she thought it to be a particularly unwelcome FedEx delivery person. (She's still planted at the front door, keeping guard, as I type this.) Fortunately, I don't see any significant damage at first glance. I need to check on my friends, family, and colleagues to the north.
How about everyone else?
It looks like this is being classified a 5.9 quake (I've seen as high as 6.2 in various reports.)
Earthquake in Virginia felt in New York, Washington, and North Carolina
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Glad you're okay!
Thanks!
(That seemed to go on a lot longer than the last 'quake I experienced...)
Glad you (and Virginia!) are OK!
Thanks. You too!
It did seem to go on for a long time... much longer than the last one I'd experienced. Or maybe it just felt that way. It sounded a bit like a low-flying helicopter.
All's well here, it looks like. Still, I'll take a tornado any day of the week. At least there's warning with those. *wink*
Some others in like air traffic control towers in Fairfax (near DC) definitely felt it.
Just like the last one I was in (when I was on a business trip to Indiana, of all places - it woke me up in the wee morning hours), this was preceded by a loud popping sound around the windows, so my brain instantly reacted with "Tornado!" despite the fact we don't have the proper conditions for one at the moment. Ah, if only. ;) I'm hardwired not to bat an eye at tornadoes. I know what to do for those!
Fortunately, I grabbed my cranberry juice before it could redecorate half the room, which it was well on its way toward doing.
Virginia is still standing guard next to the door, sweet girl.
Edited at 2011-08-23 07:45 pm (UTC)
Edited at 2011-08-23 08:04 pm (UTC)
In time for the tremors to stop.
I know what you mean about the truck. It sounded/felt here a bit like a low-flying helicopter hovering just over the roof.
East coast earthquake. That's so nuts. I'm just glad nobody was seriously hurt. *hug*
Everyone went home. I was worried that my hard drive had gotten damaged or a gas line had ruptured so I was happy to leave without seeming like an eff-off. I did wait awhile for traffic to die down, checking USGS and the Wash post.
I do hope your hard drive, gas line, etc. were all intact!