So who felt this morning's earthquake?

**ny biker** · 07-16-2010, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by tulip

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.

I slept through it.

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.

**Possegal** · 07-16-2010, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Zen

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.

OK then, not my back yard, 2.3 miles from it.

Though I felt no after shock.

**Zen** · 07-16-2010, 12:52 PM

Aftershocks are not immediate.
USGS guy explains here

**jobob** · 07-16-2010, 01:28 PM

Congrats, all!

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.

**Trek420** · 07-16-2010, 04:25 PM

Weren't there also 2 small quakes in Sonoma county?

**Selkie** · 07-17-2010, 01:21 AM

Originally Posted by ny biker

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.

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.

**Trek420** · 07-17-2010, 06:48 AM

Originally Posted by Zen

Aftershocks are not immediate.
USGS guy explains here

Yes and sometimes the quake you just had is the "pre-shock"

**ny biker** · 07-17-2010, 10:39 AM

One of my neighbors posted a photo of the devastation wrought by our horrible quake:

**Possegal** · 07-17-2010, 10:51 AM

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.

**HillSlugger** · 07-17-2010, 12:41 PM

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

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