Earthquake just hit eastern U.S.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

It was felt all over NYC. Looks like it was a 5.8 in Virginia. http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

Anyone else feel that?

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00lqe6x3.php

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 struck near Washington, D.C., the U.S.Geological Survey (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00lqe6x3.php) said.

The epicenter was in Virginia. The U.S.G.S is saying that

The quake was felt in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New York, and on Martha's Vineyard where President Barack Obama is vacationing. Cell phone service has been disrupted in New York City where parts of Manhattan have been evacuated.

"Everybody was told to take the stairs," Wolf Blitzer said, speaking live at 2 p.m. E.T. from CNN's D.C. bureau.

The Pentagon has been evacuated, CNN's Barbara Starr reports. "When the building began shaking rather violently, hundreds of people began streaming out," she said, because many people thought that the building was under attack. Starr was standing in the Pentagon's press office when the roof started to shake.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/23/quake-hits-near-washington-d-c/?hpt=hp_t2

[Ele'ill]

Wow.

[Dzerzhinsky's Ghost]

Things kind of shook about and what not but nothing to press the panic button over. I live in VA.

[a rebel]

Things kind of shook about and what not but nothing to press the panic button over. I live in VA.

Thank you, everyone seems to be going ape shit over this. There's earthquakes on the east coast every hundred years or so, They're rare but its not like they're so massive and uncommon to get everyone panicking like they are. I live in NJ and my house just shook a little bit and a lamp fell, not very impessive

[socialistjustin]

On the west coast, we really dont even feel these kinds of earthquakes. I mean, we do feel them, but its not big enough to send people into panic. It seems like people on the east coast are sort of freaking out which isnt necessary.

[Dzerzhinsky's Ghost]

Thank you, everyone seems to be going ape shit over this. There's earthquakes on the east coast every hundred years or so, They're rare but its not like they're so massive and uncommon to get everyone panicking like they are. I live in NJ and my house just shook a little bit and a lamp fell, not very impessive

This is exactly what I'm saying and I live in the red box area you see on the Earthquake maps I do believe. Everyone around me was flipping their wigs over this but it's like for fuck's sake, so the Earth had a hiccup, big deal. My only regret is that I was currently fucking someone at the time so I could have then said, "yeah, that's right, that's all me mon cher."

[heyjoe]

i felt it in NY, i was leaning against a counter. i thought it was me that was shaking because i have nerve problems. No big deal at all.

[Sasha]

http://chzdailywhat.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/fa166bed-3403-4ea8-8583-6a9707da9a76.jpg
Explainer of the Day: Apparently quite a few people reported reading tweets (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/earthquake-twitter-users-learned-tremors-226481) about today’s East Coast earthquake (http://thedailywh.at/2011/08/23/earthquake-of-the-day/) before feeling it themselves.
xkcd prophetically explained this phenomenon in an April 2010 strip entitled “Seismic Waves (http://www.xkcd.com/723/)“:
http://chzdailywhat.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/xkcdearth.png?w=478&h=460

[#FF0000]

I was in a house with a lot of other people. The three people in the room I was in didn't feel it. People in the other rooms did.

[Agent Ducky]

From California: Welcome to our world.
Lol. It's funny to see everyone freaking out about stuff we're generally ready for.