Earthquake on the East Coast US.
Hope no one is too shaken up.
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Totally shook my house. Like a rollercoaster. Scary. I'm good.
I have a lot of American friends on FB, mostly ferret people. None of them report major problems. Some of them felt a bit shaky afterwards, no pun intended, it was a bit weird feeling the house shake.
Wow, I just escape my second potential hurricane in the Dominican Republic, only to return to an unexpected earthquake.
After spending time with many who are working on fixing the infrastructure in Haiti, which is only about 10% cleared by most reports......we are blessed. 
Thanks for your concern, Wilbur. I am about 250 miles away and felt it at my house, although I did not realize what is was at the time. My doors rattled just long enough that I thought I'd locked the cat in a room he shouldn't be in. Reports I am getting from friends in Virginia say that there is not much damage, just a very odd feeling for folks who have never experienced a quake. I am sure Californians think we're wimps for making such a big deal about it - I hear they have quakes of the same magnitude frequently and just go on about their business.
I live/work about 65 miles from the epicenter. It started with a soft rumble and I thought someone was rolling something heavy along the floor. But then the entire building started shaking quite a bit with a loud rumble. It took a second to register that it could be an earthquake since they are so rare in this area. It was over so quickly, though, that my next thought was that it could have been a terror attack--which is always a fear in the DC area.
The reports so far are of only minor damage, especially closer to the center, such as Richmond, VA. But I understand that some people have been displaced from their homes and my heart goes out to them.
Thankfully, however, when I got home there was nothing out of place and I would never have known there had been an earthquake if I hadn't felt it myself! If it had struck closer to the metro DC area, I believe there would have been much more damage.
It was barely felt, or not felt, here near Greensboro, NC. I have no idea why not.
Thanks for the news, Wilbur! My family is in Massachusetts, but safe and sound.
I live one state over, which is only a hop, skip, and a jump from where it started, and I definitely felt it. My house was swaying a few things fell but everyone was okay, praise God. It was a good scare as we don't usually experience earthquakes here.
I felt the shock come through the Philadelphia area about 2pm local time. On the top floor of a four-floor building, the heavy shaking lasted about 15 seconds, and was a few millimeters of motion. Mostly only people who were sitting felt it. People who were standing or walking tended not to notice.
I was on the fourth floor of a building in Southern Vermont. The whole floor was swaying, and water in the sinks and toilets was sloshing around. Lasted about 15 seconds. It's interesting how the effect at quite some distance from the epicenter can be stronger than other locations much closer. This probably has to do with soil substrate conditions and distance from the actual north-south fault line that shifted. Anyway it was quite unsettling for a few moments and gave me an inkling as to how really unsettling a dangerous tremor would be.
It was felt a little in Toronto. I was listening to the radio when all of a sudden people starting saying there was just an earthquake. I was driving around and must have been on steady land because I didn't feel anything.
I live approximately thirty miles from the epicenter of the quake .There was a loud rumble, the house was shaking and I thought that my furnace was exploding.Then the light fixtures were waving and things were falling off the shelves.By that time I run out of the door to see that all my neighbors were out too.I come from a country where quakes are frequent, but they are different,just ground moving.This was really scary.
We felt it in Pennsylvania. I was in a public high school at the time. We heard a "whoosh," then we felt a rumble that lasted about 5 seconds. This might be because the structure is large and built to be secure.
Here's a funny story about how my friend experienced the earthquake that I can't help but repeat...
My friend who lives in the next town over told me that she was on the toilet when the earthquake occurred. She started to feel the vibration and wondered what was going on. She thought that she might be having a seizure. Then she touched the wall and it was vibrating, too, and she knew that it wasn't her. She said that the rumbling went on for a total of three minutes.
I live near Raleigh, NC. I work nights and sleep during the day. My wife said she felt it, but I never even woke up. I can't believe that I slept through an eartquake!
There is a bigger fault that runs from Toronto to southern New Jersey, and I just hope it doesn't aggravate that one: we haven't had an earthquake attributed to the Canadian American fault since the eighties. The talking heads have indicated that Indian Point is no way ready for any type of major plate movement.
