EARTHQUAKE JUST HIT DC AREA, MY HOUSE SHOOK LIKE xxx [Mag 5.9 in VA]

self ^ | 8/23/2011 | STOCKPIRATE

[stockpirate]

DAMN

[ZinGirl]

MANY LANDLINES AND CELL PHONE SERVICE OUT.

texting still works (sometimes!). have communicated with family via texting.

[ThomasMore]

Felt tremors in Southern Rhode Island

[DoughtyOne]

Sounds like action on the upper end of the New Madrid fault.

[penelopesire]

Thanks for the info. Just caught a bit about it briefly on the news this moring. Looked like it was in the four corner region.

[lwd]

Has the looting started in DC yet?

Yall ping me if I need to go into survival mode.

[dforest]

Just heard Dear Leader is on the golf course. Leave it to him to be having a good time. LOL

[hoagy62]

According to Megyn Kelly, cellular service is disrupted all over the area. FOX can’t get through to USGS or anyone.

Also, just in from a FOX producer in a plane on the runway at JFK, apparently JFK has been shut down (unofficial)

[blackie]

Amen!!

[old school]

“...and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.”-Matthew 24:6-7

[EternalVigilance]

[ken5050]

Your hubby can “shake the house?”...well, give him a BIG attaboy..and a pat on the back...he makes the earth MOVE for you...it was THAT good? (g)

[Raebie]

We felt it in Charlotte NC.

[null and void]

Too many drinking his coffee, all at the same time ...

That would do it!

[TADSLOS]

Did Sarah Palin just announce her run? That ought to rock their world inside the beltway.

[MHGinTN]

I’m on the western side of the Appalachian chain (Johnson City, TN) and it was a significant shake here. Wasn’t online but jumped on to post a query thread. Didn’t realize there were three or four already up!

[ken5050]

Thanks..love FR..learn something new every day...

[MasonGal]

Felt it here in the greater Louisville/southern Indiana area....as did my son - in downtown Louisville....

[Arrowhead1952]

God fires “warning shot “ at Obama.....details at 11....

Fox News just said zero was getting ready to start another golf outing.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Very east of the Four Corner region. More south east to south central CO.

[americanophile]

;) Exactly. It’s been awfully quiet around here for quite a while, don’t you think SoCal?

[ArrogantBustard]

15-20 sec of rock-n-roll in Fairfax Co, VA.

LINK

[onedoug]

East coast crystalline rocks....

[TonyInOhio]

Looks like Irene will pass just over the epicenter:

Perhaps the Almighty is fed up with East Coast liberals, too. :)

[stephenjohnbanker]

God fires “warning shot “ at Obama.....details at 11....

[null and void]

Didn’t realize there were three or four already up!

This is FR!

When last we had one I posted a thread before the shaking stopped...

[the OlLine Rebel]

I too! Ellicott City - that’s just what I was thinking at first - some kind of major gale? Or God forbid, airplane swooping down suddenly? It all seemed from above, not below!

[penelopesire]

[BenLurkin]

What fun!

[Dstorm]

Its south of us, it was intense for 20 seconds and i felt aftershocks for another 10 to 15 seconds

[null and void]

Good thing that church wasn’t built across the street...

[ArrogantBustard]

Does washington even have a fault zone?

Epicenter was west of Richmond. There are numerous old, not very active, faults in the Shenandoah Valley, the Blue Ridge and piedmont.

[penelopesire]

Thanks again. The graphic that Fox showed was very elementary.

[LibWhacker]

Who’s gonna fall into the ocean first now, huh? -A Californian

[Straight Vermonter]

We felt it here in northern Vermont. Google Earth says we are 511 miles away from the epicenter. Pretty amazing.

[AppyPappy]

“cellular service is disrupted all over the area.”

More likely it is stressed rather than down.

[Gator113]

Thank you God, but could you please hold off on the earthquakes until he gets home from vacation?

Thank you.

[Tatze]

I AM NO LONGER AN EARTHQUAKE VIRGIN

I slept through one many years ago in NJ. And did not feel this one even though friends all over town did. So I can't say if that makes me still an earthquake virgin or not.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

WOW! The East coaster is not used to them. Hope every one is ok.

[theshadow3581]

felt it on long Island....prluge to 2012?

[IFly4Him]

I am 5 miles from Mineral (the epi). That was a creepy experience!!!

[kcat]

Coworkers in son’s office in Cincinatti felt it. He said he did not.

[EBH]

I thought it was me! OMG...I was walking a clients dog and was oddly disoriented...like dizzy. Ugh?

PS...the dog laid down too, right in the middle of the walk.

[Interesting Times]

Northern Virginia: books, maps, photos knocked off shelves all over the house. Water sloshed out of cat bowls. A large hourglass took a high dive off a bookcase to its doom. The Ann Coulter doll somebody gave me on the first FR cruise also fell, but is made of sterner stuff. Cats are gradually emerging from under beds.

[null and void]

Laz could make it so you don’t miss the next time the earth moves...

[tcrlaf]

[Braak]

Downtown DC here...my apartment shook like a leaf...I thought it was a goddamned nuke....

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Felt it in Southwestern Pa. I used to live in Southern California so I’m used to it. But people here are all shook up about it. Hopefully it’s not a prelude to something worse.

[choirboy]

LOL! Didn’t feel a thing in San Fran.