earthquake

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V. freaky here.

Waiting for the aftershocks.

Twitter is hilarious. The news is useless.

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[lawsontl.livejournal.com]

We felt it in Ohio as it was happening. Nothing major here, of course, just some lateral wiggling. Must've been pretty unsettling near the epicenter.

[snufflesdbear.livejournal.com]

OMG - a little before 2? Husband and I thought a train, or load of bricks on a truck. Actually, I thought it was a cat leaning against the sofa scratching. Until he said something.

Freaky.

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

And you're getting set to head to San Francisco!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yikes...

Stay safe!

[usullusa.livejournal.com]

I felt it in Brooklyn too. My tumblr dashboard exploded simultaneously. It was fairly funny. Nobody seems to be hurt.

[rose71.livejournal.com]

Wow, I *thought* I felt a mild earthquake here in Boston earlier today. My lampshades and curtains were shaking inexplicably.

After spending 3 years in Los Angeles, I'm familiar with the feeling, but never expected to re-experience it here--although we did once have an earthquake during my childhood in Connecticut. On a day we were having a grade school science test about earthquakes!

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

We felt nothing here in Cambridge.

[rose71.livejournal.com]

I'm actually in Cambridge too. I seriously think I noticed the tiny quake just because I recognize the signs from my L.A. days. Or maybe my building is just extra-shaky!

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

If I'd felt anything I am sure I would have just thought it was the T rumbling up Mass Ave or a big truck or something, but we didn't notice a thing.

[abnormal-apathy.livejournal.com]

I'm in Cambridge and our building had to be evacuated. The entire building was swaying. How reassuring!

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

My husband said his office building was shaking in Kendall. I was in Porter.

[abnormal-apathy.livejournal.com]

I'm closer to MIT so between Central and the Mass Ave bridge to Boston.

[tod-hollykim.livejournal.com]

LOL! Hey, they wanted it to be a complete educational experience!

I first my first quake when I lived in upper Manhattan back mid '80's. Very early on a Sunday morning. I went back to sleep.

[aisurucheza.livejournal.com]

I was supposed to go outside with my friend today but I'm waiting a few hours or so just in case there's aftershock. I would hate to be on the train or in the middle of the city when it hits. Just in case the after shock is worse than than the actual earthquake.

I doubt that it's going to be that bad, but the fact the we felt it all the way up here... than at this point I'm really not taking any chances.

Otherwise I'm not panicking. I'm just waiting it out~

Facebook actually has me laughing. People can be ridiculous haha

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

Felt it in Ottawa, Ontario as well.

[gina-r-snape.livejournal.com]

tumblr is equally hilarious right now!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I loved that flagrant misuse of Milton Glaser's "I ♥ NY" symbol, hee.

[gina-r-snape.livejournal.com]

IKR? Genius! I had to repost it.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

The news isn't useless, there's nothing beyond the fact that an earthquake happened to report.

[lostin-thestars.livejournal.com]

Dear Earthquake, you're not supposed to be in California til next week?

[tod-hollykim.livejournal.com]

My first thought- Okay, who shook the snow globe?

[rose71.livejournal.com]

LOL. That could be the new way of measuring small earthquakes in the northeast: the snowglobe scale.

[wallelf.livejournal.com]

I'm 80 miles east of the epicenter. I was loading up my van after finishing a job when it began to rock side to side. No noise or rumbling. I was momentarily surprised, but after looking at the two dogs in the yard, who were totally unfazed and just dozing in the sun, I figured I was just having a low blood sugar moment. I heard the news on the radio on my way home. No reports of serious damage in this area but the media is sure making a big deal of this right now.

[heeroluva.livejournal.com]

Really? I was about the same distance away, and definitely felt it. I was taking a nap and woke up and thought someone was shaking my bed then I heard stuff on the shelves rattling and realized what was going on. Maybe the difference was you were on the ground and I was four stories up?

[wallelf.livejournal.com]

My son is in Wilmington, NC and felt it there. He was on the second floor at Belk and said he could feel it in his feet and the light fixtures were vibrating. So being off the ground may well make the difference. :)

[heeroluva.livejournal.com]

Yes to all of the above.

[shesingsnow.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Looked for the news - had to go to Twitter. *nods*

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

The news is useless. I expect them to report on this in about five years.

[featherofeeling.livejournal.com]

Aftershock a few minutes ago! At least in Virginia. Did anyone else get one?

[misch.livejournal.com]

USGS says the aftershock that hit just after 7PM was a 4.2. I didn't feel anything here in NJ, but I was walking around at the time and might not have noticed.

[featherofeeling.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know. Some of my friends didn't feel it at all.

[misch.livejournal.com]

3 aftershocks so far.

Images coming in of actual damage.

Ok, jokes aside, a vacant building partially collapsed in Camden, NJ.

[be-a-rebel.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend is in DC and apparently they shut down his university for the day. Everyone was freaking out and he calmly packed his laptop. In Pakistan if a quake is less than 6.0 or 6.5 nobody even moves from they're sitting, we're kind of an apathetic people. The Dean at his school thought it was a bomb and he was all....'uh, no, I'm from Pakistan, bombs kind of tend to be louder.'

*facepalm*

But 5.8 is pretty terrible. Before the 2005 quake here (it was 7.8, scariest experience ever) I used to freak out over quakes of that magnitude. Especially if you're a couple of floors up.

[brandywine28.livejournal.com]

I was in Midtown Manhattan and I didn't feel it! Does this make me officially oblivious to reality?

My mom, in Queens, was predictably hysterical.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

I don't tweet but I love how easy it is to confirm things by searching Twitter. I confirmed within 10 seconds that others in NH were feeling an earthquake.