I felt the earth move

Leslie · August 23, 2011, 01:04:59 PM

here in Bucks County, PA. all ok, but that was weird.
East Coasters sign in please!

Leslie · August 23, 2011, 01:46:50 PM

We're 200 miles north. It felt like a truck backed into our (single story) building. The safety poster in the hall came loose.

David C. · August 23, 2011, 03:13:52 PM

We're all okay. We're about 100 miles north of the epicenter. I was in the post office and we really felt it. Another tick or two up on the Richter scale and the glass would have shattered. It was crazy. People went pouring into the streets.

When I got back in my car, I flipped on my police radio. It was just going nuts until they restricted radio traffic to those units dealing directly with building evacuations or any other damage. Phones stopped working, both landline and cell phones as calls completely overloaded the system. It took about an hour before consistent phone service returned.

Apparently the Zs snoozed through the whole thing.

Marcia from MI · August 23, 2011, 03:30:54 PM

Quote from: Leslie on August 23, 2011, 01:46:50 PM
We're 200 miles north. It felt like a truck backed into our (single story) building. The safety poster in the hall came loose.

That's exactly how Chad Meyers described it on CNN.

Leslie · August 23, 2011, 05:02:10 PM

Quote from: Marcia from MI on August 23, 2011, 03:30:54 PM
That's exactly how Chad Meyers described it on CNN.

At first I thought my blood sugar was dipping and then I looked over at my co-worker and saw her face, and then she said: "Run!" (We are only 15' from the door.) So we booked it outta there. Our other co-worker did not; but she won't be laughing when she sees the local video of the girl getting clocked. Literally, the clock flew off the wall and hit her in the head.

Spooky--not terryfyin', but a couple of tchotchkes at home apparently danced a few inches.

Guinness · August 23, 2011, 11:54:38 PM

In California, we use a 5.8 earthquake to stir our coffee.

Guinness never even blinked an eye.

Barb · August 24, 2011, 08:39:13 AM

Yikes - I can't imagine ! Stay safe...and OMG, Irene is headed that way....who is in the path of that?

Ruth in MT · August 24, 2011, 09:25:26 AM

NEWS BREAK!! Seismologists have determined that the earthquake in Washington DC was not caused by a fault line, but from our founding fathers rolling over in their graves ...

Barb · August 24, 2011, 12:09:54 PM

Quote from: Ruth in MT on August 24, 2011, 09:25:26 AM
NEWS BREAK!! Seismologists have determined that the earthquake in Washington DC was not caused by a fault line, but from our founding fathers rolling over in their graves ...

LOL !!!! I saw that on Facebook last night and cracked up...... I would TOTALLY believe it !!!!

David C. · August 25, 2011, 08:34:00 PM

We had a 4.5 aftershock last night. I slept through that one.

Brekkesmom · August 30, 2011, 09:03:09 AM

I lived through earthquakes in Missouri (New Madrid fault - made the Mississippi River run backwards 10 - 24 hours and formed Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee) and the first one I was in here in CA felt like someone behind me had hit the back bumper - we have had worse ones. I believe we are getting better news coverage /publicity over weather and earth issues such as earthquakes, so we are more aware...and then there are the prophecies in Revelation. I am glad everyone is well and doing fine, so far.