(I did; it was rumbly!)
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(I did; it was rumbly!)
Woke me right up and scared the crap out of me. I had to go make sure it wasn't some car that had run into my house!
Of course the news says it was centered where I am, and I think it may have been centered in my back yard. :)
I was getting ready to head to the pool when the rumbling started. You could both feel and hear it in Arlington. Lasted several seconds. At first, thought it was a plane, although National Airport doesn't open until 6am. USGS apparently reported a 3.6 quake w/the epicenter in Gaithersburg.
Not me--I slept right through, but lots of my neighbors and friends (some way further away from the epicenter than I am) felt and heard it. I'm irritated--I would have liked to have experienced that!
My son woke up right around that time, but we're so used to him waking up at odd times that we didn't consider why he may have awoken.
Sarah
I was just drifting back to sleep after getting out of bed briefly. DH jumped out of bed, "What was that??" Thought it was a truck. It coincided with our a.c. unit (which is right outside out bedroom window) cycling down, so paranoid me thought it was our a.c. failing in dramatic fashion.
Is that normal for the DC area? Earthquakes?
Roxy
Heck no!Quote:
Originally Posted by channlluv
Wonder when the aftershock will occur? :D I thought it was a plane.
Already did. I was just in a meeting with a woman who lives in Germantown and she said they felt a mild aftershock about 15 minutes after the main quake.Quote:
Originally Posted by pfunk12
My alarm had just gone off so I was awake in bed. Felt it shaking, but I had no idea why until a coworker told me. I had my earplugs in so I didn't hear anything.
Ignorance is bliss.
I also thought it was a truck.
But No headlights.
Then I thought it was a pump on the side of the house.
Then it stopped.
But yeah, I felt it for sure.
3.4
Earlier it was reported that he epicenter had been pinpointed down to a certain block in Germantown but now I can't find that info.
ETA
According to the USGS guy in this video, it was the largest recorded earth quake in this area and the epicenter was the 19000 block of Forest Brook Road in Germantown.
I slept through it, but my friend who is visiting from Idaho woke up to it. It's an event filled trip for her - we saw two black bears the other day along skyline drive.
I'm too far to have felt it, but there are occasionally small earthquakes west of Richmond. There have been several in the last few years.
That was in Kalidurga's area I think and not so far from my old neighborhood. Everything OK up there? My sister (in Rockville) slept through it, but said her cats were weird all night - thinks they sensed something.
Yeah it looks like it's a couple of miles as the crow flies from Kalidurga's house.Quote:
Originally Posted by withm
I slept through it.Quote:
Originally Posted by tulip
I remember one centered in Virginia few years ago. It was in the afternoon and I was at work. There was a rumbling, and I noticed the water in the bottle on my desk was sloshing around.
OK then, not my back yard, 2.3 miles from it. :) Though I felt no after shock.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
Aftershocks are not immediate.
USGS guy explains here
Congrats, all! :cool:
BTW, the first earthquake I ever experienced was while I was still living right outside of Boston, it was centered in southern Maine.
No place is completely immune.
Weren't there also 2 small quakes in Sonoma county?
I remember that one, too. For some reason, I was home from work and my dogs got very nervous when it hit. The house shook a little and the old windows rattled. I don't remember hearing any noise with that one---definitely not as strong as yesterday's tremor.Quote:
Originally Posted by ny biker
Yes and sometimes the quake you just had is the "pre-shock" ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
One of my neighbors posted a photo of the devastation wrought by our horrible quake:
I was offsite at a work meeting and the chair of the committee was from LA. He started the day saying something about as a new transplant to California (I think he was at Hopkins before there) he enjoyed that he got to be here to experience our big earthquake. He said he had heard there were rampant stories of crooked pictures. :)
I had woken up just before THE SHAKE; heard something, felt maybe 5 seconds of shaking, wondered if it was an earthquake, and then fell back asleep until it was time to get up to swim. I couldn't even find anything out of place in the house.
My first earthquake ;)