Reports have come in today of 5.9 earthquake in Virginia. I live in North Carolina and I could feel it here. What's more astounding is that Virginia is in the middle of a tectonic plate. The word really is ending!
My aunt and grandma felt some shakes in a state that's not virgina too. I didn't feel anything though. I'm wondering wheather I should be relived or dissapointed.
I felt shaking from New York. Coolist thing i've seen or felt in a while. At first I thought I was having a spaz attack but then I saw the water in my glass move and my couch shook. IT WAS AWSOME . We never get earthquakes and that was cool. It only lasted about 15 seconds, I wish it were longer.
Yeah I was driving and had no red lights, anddidn't feel it. Also the people doing the floorboards on the first floor of my house didn't feel it... I'm actually kinda pissed I wanted to experience it. I do know that the higher floor your on the more you woulda felt it, but I still kinda wanted to notice it.
It wasn't too bad, it must have been a bad day for store managers picking up all the crap that fell off of the shelves
I do know that the higher floor your on the more you woulda felt it, but I still kinda wanted to notice it.
From the distance you were from the epicenter, I think if you were really close to the ground you would've felt a bit the shaking like standing on a weak massage chair. That intensity is weakened as the forces travel thru a building. The higher up you are in a building, the less you'll feel it (possible swaying if you're really high up, but you won't feel much of the shaking). If you were driving, your tires and shock absorbers would've taken most of the forces, so I doubt it would feel any different from the normal movement of the vehicle.
so it was not that big of a deal then...
It depends on where you were relative to the epicenter. Some places were hit very hard, others didn't feel a thing.
$100,000,000 worth of damage, many injuries reported but no deaths. It could've been much worse. There's a nuclear plant 10 miles (16km) from the epicenter of the quake.
