holy shit that was an earthquake

damn

useful

wtf???????????

DC area, as far south as Raleigh according to twitter search maybe?

wow

wow

uh

felt it here in lower Manhattan

Me too, in Brooklyn.

JUST now updated on the earthquake.usgs.gov site, 5.8 in Virginia.

that was as intense as anything i remember feeling in ca

wtf

just felt it in bklyn too jeez

my co-workers all felt this but somehow i missed it???

@AP: Pentagon being evacuated after possible earthquake felt in Washington area.

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

oh hi

my building was swaying here in boston

And my office in Ashburn, Va. was shaking.

Columbia heights DC. Ppl this is serious they evac'd the Target.

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2011/08/23/quake-hits-virginia-shakes-manhattan/

Mandatory market response time:

Treasurys are up a little bit, with the 10-year yielding 2.09%. That could also be due to a strong 2-year Treasury note, but the talk is that it’s at least partly because of the quake.

The stock market dipped just a teensy bit, but the Dow’s still up 175 points. The quake apparently shaved a little bit off the market.

They’ve evacuated the Pentagon and the Capitol Building in DC, so it is kind of a big deal.

aaaahhh!!!

my neighbor wasn't playing brostep?

USGS has reassessed as a 5.9

Was getting manicure on ground floor of midtown building. Felt a mild swaying, like someone had leaned against my chair or something?? Didn't realize what it was until I walked outside and heard people talking about it, evacuating their buildings as an excuse to stand outside in the sunshine.

yeah I got it here in NC. weird. first one I've been thru I think

my co-workers all felt this but somehow i missed it???

same here

Sort of jeal of people who had things rattling and shaking! To me it was more like a subway went by underneath, the usual kind of rumble.

apparently the higher in the building you were the more you felt it.

no rum-bumblin' up in Mzaine yo

Well damn. I'd normally be on the 16th floor, maybe it was more dramatic up here!

Felt this about 150 miles north of NYC, yep. A little scary.

nada in the boston suburbs

my office building a bit outside of boston was wiggling and jiggling

our super was in the basement and didn't know what was up.
just spoke with someone on the 34th floor of a neighboring building who said stuff was falling off shelves.

felt this all the way up here in montreal

i was in bed on the third floor, so pretty ideal to feel it

it was a little worrisome -- the house was creaking pretty dramatically

it was probably about the same as a 5.1 (but rather closer) one i felt years ago

https://twitter.com/#!/hotdogsladies/status/106066130577272834

of course I am in the basement so there aint no shaken anyway

what the fuck

OMG

I thought I was either about to pass out or puke from low blood sugar or something and tried to steady myself on my desk when I looked over and saw everyone around me doing the same.

That was the weirdest sensation.

Fuck.

They evacuated our building but we didn't get sent home. Dammit.

felt this all the way up here in montreal

― peter in montreal, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 6:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

what the fuck

man I was lying in bed on the 2nd floor, felt the bed move like there was an alligator under it. wasn't til the ceiling light + fan start to move that I thought something was up.

the water in the turtle tank kept on swaying for like 10 minutes after the quake stopped fyi.

WHAT THE FUCK!

RT @TomFornelli: WOLF BLITZER IS ON THE PHONE WITH THE EARTHQUAKE.

ok so i felt nothing, what gives

This is so weird. It was REALLY obvious in my office building the whole building was shaking and everyone noticed it. At my co-worker's husbands work about a mile away nobody felt it. Woah.

Maybe it just depends on how close you are to the actual fault line? I mean maybe it runs right under my office building? Or it might have to do with how the buildings are made?

I was in my hammock and it felt p nice actually

i'd imagine the kind of rock you're sitting on probably makes a difference

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e-esyK9fk2I/TDS-ocfIR4I/AAAAAAAAB70/nSSW7kK-83I/s1600/DickMove%5B1%5D.jpg

re: the Californians = dicks thing....i get it in some way, because it is rather novel on the east coast (i grew up in philly), but let's be honest— it wasn't that big a quake, and the amount of insanely shrill news coverage about it made me want to shoot all televisions and radios. also, some other major things happened in the news yesterday (LIBYA? HELLOOO) and all any news outlet could talk about was this teensy fucking earthquake that is a mere blip on peoples consciousnesses if they live on the west coast.

in short: i get why people were so excited and/or freaked out, but it didn't merit the amount of excitement/freakedoutness that it got. that is all.

(and btw, i was en route to baltimore, didn't feel a fucking thing. i never have felt one in my entire time in california, and we've had a few of this magnitude).

your mistake was watching the news

yeah, the news coverage was absurd, but now everyone can go back to really vital stuff like OMG BACHMANN & PERRY

also, a friend who lives in a rickety old house in the Catskills says it shook like a motherfucker! That's a big deal if you've never experienced it before.

yeserday was a nice Californians = dicks reminder

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, August 24, 2011 11:20 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

saw this sentiment pop up on my news feed a few times yesterday, hah

well, come autumn/winter you can laugh at us again for shutting down completely when it rains for like an hour

dickquake in the blogosphere!

The news is going to be shrill about BS and people are going to be focused on spectacles of immediate interest to them and disregard matters of less gravity. It's not an excuse and it's not good, but then again, were the dickish Californians in question saying "How can these East-Coasters carry on about a trivial quake when big shit's going down in Libya and Syria!"?

Or were they saying "LOL our toddlers can apply eye shadow standing on their heads during a friggin' 5.8!"?

Which one is it?

mostly stuff like the latter ime

Often prefaced by "Pfft."

they wil lll pay when we cane them glutes

Often prefaced by "Pfft."

Haha! You will hate this forever, won't you?

Hahaha. I don't even associate it directly with you anymore, but you really left some wounds that will never heal. Apparently.

yeah, definitely the latter

wounds won't heal and nor will wisdom tooth holes

Dry sockets in my heart.

Californians being dicks about 5.8 earthquakes in places that never get them.

god for real, but it's not just the novelty, it's the fact that people can live in not-california their entire lives (wtf, crazy i know) and then an earthquake happens. a lot of those people are going to spend the duration of the quake honestly scared for their lives and seriously freaked out afterwards.

when i was getting home from work yesterday about an hour afterwards, there was an older lady wandering aimlessly down the street with a blank look in her eyes, and she had her hands on her neck/cheeks area like she was holding herself. she told me "earthquake! they said 5.8!" and that she was too scared to go back into her house. i leave my house an hour later, and i see her AGAIN, walking down the same road in the same exact position.

today i talked to another older lady at a reception desk, i asked her how her day was going and she said she was feeling awful because she didn't get any sleep last night; she was up all night thinking about the earthquake. she was at least in her 70s and she had never experienced one before.

it's easy to be terrified bc even if it's obviously an earthquake, they're so unexpected here that your first eight thoughts might be about things that are a lot worse than earthquakes, like maybe aliens are lifting the building from the ground, or the USSR just dropped a bomb somewhere 30 miles away, or there's a giant shaking the building

so stop being a dick, california

i never have felt one in my entire time in california, and we've had a few of this magnitude.

― sold my soul to satin (the table is the table), Wednesday, August 24, 2011 7:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

does this say something about a 5.8 or about your distance from the epicenter & ability to be aware of the world around you so to speak

in true tragedy news, i tried to get my cat to ride on my dog's back like he was a horse and she was a cowboy and they both just freaked out like idiots

thats pretty awesome

it's easy to be terrified bc even if it's obviously an earthquake, they're so unexpected here that your first eight thoughts might be about things that are a lot worse than earthquakes, like maybe aliens are lifting the building from the ground, or the USSR just dropped a bomb somewhere 30 miles away, or there's a giant shaking the building

Multiple relatives thought Dover AFB was being bombed.

yeah my first thought was "dc doesn't get earthquakes--what just blew up and how fast do i have to run?"

I am a californian and a dick but I don't see anything wrong with east coast people saying lolwtf, if there were a blizzard in LA it would be on the news too

I didn't feel it tho

being confused/scared/excited right after the quake is reasonable... still being rattled hours and hours later, wandering the streets, muttering to yourself after you know what happened is pretty pfft-worthy tho.

I'm currently defecating in my boxer briefs due to this earthquake, a whole day later.

Pfft.

that would be a fart

That is the sound from my boxer briefs.

xp

loling

sound and fury signifying nothing

oh they signify something

Tutti Fruity let a beauty, and everyone went out for air. That's what it signifies.

That's why ppl are still wandering the streets.

Its OK to be a dick

I am what I eat.

Got an email that there was an aftershock of 4 point something around 1am but I don't think it was strong enough to feel here.

who emailed you? the earthquake?

yeah i saw it on twitter but felt nothin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjic66CjjYc&feature=related

Alert DC, lol
Xpost

cuties shouldnt have to pick up their broken house

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2011-08/64192997.jpg

Its OK to be a dick

I tell this to my dick all the time.

people tripping about the hurricane now.

i heard a lawnchair blew over loooool

lol

http://i.imgur.com/yMi7Z.jpg

Earthquake did 10/11