Did anyone feel the earthquake in NYC?

Serendipity
Serendipity Posts: 6,975
edited August 2011 in The Clubhouse
I originally thought it was something else, until I called my Dad who works in Manhattan and he said his building shook (since he is in a skyscraper) quite a bit...

Just found out online that Colorado and Virginia have been experiencing earthquakes too.

Hope everyone is okay.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,611
    edited August 2011
    nope
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited August 2011
    Really strange that there are so many earthquakes recently...

    Virginia just had a 5.8 Magnitude quake minutes ago too???
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited August 2011
    I felt it here in Berwick, PA... had the building swaying pretty good. (network cable hanging down my wall was moving back and forth...

    First time I've EVER felt an earthquake... freaky!
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited August 2011
    Serendipity wrote: »
    Really strange that there are so many earthquakes recently...

    Virginia just had a 5.8 Magnitude quake minutes ago too???

    I think we might've felt that one.
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited August 2011
    nadams wrote: »
    I felt it here in Berwick, PA... had the building swaying pretty good. (network cable hanging down my wall was moving back and forth...

    First time I've EVER felt an earthquake... freaky!

    Yeah stuff was moving around for sure.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited August 2011
    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0005ild.php#details


    That was a good one... and I say this as a veteran of the 1989 Loma Prieta near the Sillycon Valley.
    We felt today's temblor here in NE MA quite vividly; very lateral, back and forth.

    My son's in C-ville (VA); hope all is OK there. Youse guyses in Delmarva hearing of/seeing any damage? It was strong enough that there could've been some...
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited August 2011
    Didn't feel it here.

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  • DaveHo
    DaveHo Posts: 3,501
    edited August 2011
    Felt it here at work in Exton PA. I'm on the third floor of a 4 floor building. After the first few second of WTF is that everyone started hightailing down the steps & outside. Freaky!
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited August 2011
    Felt a little something in my office in Middlesex NJ. Like someone was shaking there foot and making the floor tremble.

    I dismissed it till I heard there was a Quake in VA.

    They just upgraded the Quake in VA to a 6.0 by the way.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited August 2011
    Like MHardy said, it was not very violent, like rumbling shaking or anything. It was just a lateral back and forth movement. Enough to disorient me at my desk, though. That's here in PA, though... anyone in the Virginia area able to comment?
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited August 2011
    Damn.They are evacuating everybody on the east coast.
    Maybe i'm wrong but a bit of an overreaction maybe?
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    edited August 2011
    Good thing it was inland and not in out in the ocean. That's the last thing we need, a Tsunami...

    It was felt in Framingham, MA where the little lady works. I'm due south in Milford and felt nada...
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,222
    edited August 2011
    Nothing here in Colorado ..
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,602
    edited August 2011
    We have been getting calls about people feeling the quake here at the Sheriff's Office.:eek: I am about an hour north west of Augusta.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited August 2011
    WTF?...its all over the news!..hope everyone is ok...
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  • muncybob
    muncybob Posts: 3,039
    edited August 2011
    Had the building swaying here too. Out on the street people were joking it's because of all the folks here for Little League :) Others were saying it's all the fracturing going on around here for natural gas. Of course, 1 guy said it was the end of the world.

    At first I thought it was just me until people in the office were calling out...did ya feel that!? That was all I needed...out of the building.
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,849
    edited August 2011
    a little shakiin felt here in Charlotte area
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited August 2011
    I was driving at the time, didn't feel anything.
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  • rebuy
    rebuy Posts: 695
    edited August 2011
    I'm in WV about 350 miles away and our trailer shook so hard that a lamp fell off the kitchen counter and a bottle of apple juice from the top of the fridge fell too.
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  • Gavin.Wright
    Gavin.Wright Posts: 125
    edited August 2011
    nothing here -
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  • ViperZ
    ViperZ Posts: 2,046
    edited August 2011
    We felt it in Toronto...
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited August 2011
    mrbiron wrote: »
    Good thing it was inland and not in out in the ocean. That's the last thing we need, a Tsunami...

    It was felt in Framingham, MA where the little lady works. I'm due south in Milford and felt nada...

    Interesting. It was unmistakable in Andover; Mrs H was in the car on the North Shore (we were talking on the phone; she was stopped!) and she felt it about 30 seconds after I did in Andover.

    EDIT: FYI, here's our son's report back from Charlottesville, via e-mail :-)
    Yeah, I had no idea it was so big, we just had tremors for a minute (obvious but nothing falling over either).
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  • gelinas
    gelinas Posts: 226
    edited August 2011
    I felt it hard in my building in downtown Baltimore sitting on the 7th floor we were really swaying.

    Had to evacuate the building for an hour or so.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited August 2011
    brgman wrote: »
    Damn.They are evacuating everybody on the east coast.
    Maybe i'm wrong but a bit of an overreaction maybe?

    A vast majority of the population on this coast has never felt an earthquake before... Do I think there's overreaction? Sure... But I'll tell you right now, it freaked me out...
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • muncybob
    muncybob Posts: 3,039
    edited August 2011
    Now people are saying that there will be aftershocks felt? This is very rare for around here...exciting! Not the usual day at the office for us.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited August 2011
    There'll most likely be aftershocks... not likely to be terribly impressive, though... unless this one was a foreshock ;-)

    Here's a little traffic safety tip from a former Northern Californian - if you're in a traffic backup; try not to get stuck sitting under a bridge - just in case. They're all pretty earthquake-reinforced in CA... here in MA, not so much.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited August 2011
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Interesting. It was unmistakable in Andover; Mrs H was in the car on the North Shore (we were talking on the phone; she was stopped!) and she felt it about 30 seconds after I did in Andover.

    Weird, I'm in Billerica and had no idea it even happened; was in a meeting and didn't know until an hour later when I checked Facebook, haha.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
    edited August 2011
    Don't worry, everyone here at Polk is just fine. The building shook a bit but that was about it.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited August 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Weird, I'm in Billerica and had no idea it even happened; was in a meeting and didn't know until an hour later when I checked Facebook, haha.

    Well... Billerica's just such a rockin' place as is...
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited August 2011
    I was on the phone with a guy in Virgina Beach when it hit.
    He had to leave the building for about 20 minutes.
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