My first earthquake........

[Asiel]

Said this one was felt as far away as Martha's Vineyard.

High rise office buildings in Wilmington and Phila have been evacuated as a precaution. Guess they want to check for structural damage, since buildings in this area aren't built to withstand quakes.

Hope there's no aftershocks - can't take this much "excitement"!

DIL just called - she works at the big Walmart distribution center about 5 miles from here. Said some tractor trailers in the lot went over, and they are checking the building for damage. It's a monstrous place in size!

Heard on the news that it measured 6.0 - don't know how huge you would consider that, we've never had an earthquake here so I didn't know how to compare it. Hope the "excitement" doesn't wear you out
I'm sure your fur buddies must have felt it, lucky they didn't quake themselves....poor Myndi has enough problems. Hope that's the end of it.

[davidpizzica]

I live 50 miles north of Pittsburgh in Saxonburg Pa. Some people here in Concordia felt some trembling even here!

[momcat]

Quite an afternoon this has been! My office building shook, the floor felt like it rippled, and the windows in my office rattled. Phones are not working. We were evacuated and not allowed back inside. After about a half hour a security guard told us if we had anything inside to get it and get right out. From there we were told to leave for the day. When I got home, my neighbor said things really shook on our street. There's no obvious damage but as soon as the phones are back I'll call my landlord just to be sure.

Thank God that there are no serious injuries reported.

[Pinot's Mom]

Not exciting; sorry. I am still not feeling quite right. My office swayed and shook. I'm training a new employee from Reno and it scared the you know what out of both of us! NOT FUN! Send the earthquakes back to California!

[pomtzu]

Hey Eileen - I heard that some vacant buildings in Camden collapsed.

They are also reporting damage to the Washington Monument, and a slight tilt has been detected. Of course, things can get blown out of proportion in the initial stages of reporting, so I guess that remains to be seen.

It was spooky to see my dining room chandelier swinging, and when I went in the kitchen, drawers were hanging open. There's a piece of trim on the edge of the roof hanging loose on one end of the house too, but nothing else that I can find.

[Karen]

I didn't feel it, but it turns out my mum-in-law did, but she just figured it was the construction crew 2 houses down from her!

[Bonny]

Glad to hear everyone is all right. A person likes the feel of firm ground under their feet for sure.

[carole]

glad everyone is ok, really scarey stuff, we down under know exactly how frightening this can be, and we are thinking of you all,i heard it is most unusual for earthquakes in the new york area etc, here's hoping there are no more , HUGS.

[chocolatepuppy]

Yikes! Glad everyone is ok!

[krazyaboutkatz]

Since, I live in CA I've felt several of them but I still don't like them either. I'm glad to hear that everyone is fine. Hopefully there won't be any more of them or any afteshocks either. Please take care.

[Medusa]

A friend who lives 10 min. away here in OH felt it but I didn't. Odd.

[jenluckenbach]

My coworker (in Bethlehem, PA) felt it, and was quite SHOOK UP about it, But I did not feel a thing. And I was just 1 room away from her at the time. I guess I am just oblivious.

[todd]

I felt it here. in Hamilton Ontario canada some lite shaking of the bed

[Alysser]

I didn't feel it but my mom did. We are close to Jackson, NJ. I was in the car so I think that's why I didn't feel it. I was at a theme park and they closed the rides for about an hour or so.

[mrspunkysmom]

So that's what that was?

I was in my classroom planning, sitting at the computer in my rolling chair. I felt a strange rolling, waving, rocking, very mild and my first thoughts were:

I'm imagining this
My ear problems are acting up
Someone has upset the universe
Finally, the HVAC system right behind is working too hard.

So I stood up, turned around, and it quit.

Didn't think more about it until this evening when I heard it could be felt far away.

The building didn't shake nor did we evacuate. No one even mentioned it. I think I must have felt the tremors under the building. My ears have been extra sensitive for a few years.

Glad everyone is okay.