What the hell just happened? (earthquake)

[The Big Ragu]

Tremors in NY. Just flipped to MSNBC and apparently earthquake in D.C.

I have never felt an earthquake before. That was freaky.

 

[wicked]

Yeah. It was. Stuff fell off our walls. Saw on someone's facebook that they felt it in Canada.

 

[wicked]

CNN: 5.8 earthquake in Virginia.

 

[Big Circus]

We had it here in Richmond. I've never felt one like that before.

 

[RalphWaldoHenderson]

Sounds like the thing went through much of North America: I'm watching the Indians-Mariners game in Cleveland, and they said they felt something. And a friend i upstate South Carolina tweeted that he felt something too.

 

[Rhody31]

Felt it here in Rhode Island.

 

[MileHigh]

5.8. Wild. That's more than a hard sneeze.

Colorado just had a 5.3 overnight -- its largest in nearly 40 years.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

It's pretty freaky that they're happening in Colorado and Virginia and NYC.

 

[MileHigh]

Pentagon being evacuated.

5.8 is a good shaker, even for California. For the East Coast -- that's a biggie.

 

[EStreetJoe]

Just felt the earth shake in Mercer County, NJ and a minute later someone I was on the phone with in New York City was saying "what was that, I just felt the building shake".

I haven't felt an earthquake since 1986, the morning I was taking the SAT.

 

[MileHigh]

MSNBC: Centered near Charlottesville, Va.

U.S. Capitol being evacuated.

 

[Big Circus]

Epicenter was Mineral, VA, between Richmond and Charlottesville.

EDIT: Should point out that's about 20 miles from Lake Anna, which has a nuclear power plant.

 

[HC]

Felt it here in Toronto but pretty mild.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Felt it where I am too.

 

[Justin Biebler]

AP's Tom Withers tweeted that the Indians pressbox shook for about 30 seconds.

 

[nck228]

Felt it here on Long Island. That was freaky.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

That thing rattled the **** out of my house, which doesn't need much rattling to begin with. Wow.

 

[Care Bear]

Scared the **** out of us in Annapolis. The whole apartment shook like crazy. Thought it was a bomb at first. Never felt anything like that. Seconds felt like days, especially with a five-day-old infant.

 

[MileHigh]

Up to a 5.9

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usc0005ild.php

 

[NickMordo]

I never experienced an earthquake, but my legs are shaking very oddly here in Michigan...