Felt it in Durham, NC. I'm on the 4th (top) floor of a building and it shook noticeably but gently for about 10 seconds, with maybe a minute total of less-pronounced sharking.
Felt in Carrboro, NC, too.
Cary, NC. Projector shook during a demo.
East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
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Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#52I'm about 30 minutes north of Baltimore, MD, and it was strong enough the rattle my entire building. (The building was literally moving beneath our feet.) Many people quickly moved outside.
Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#53One guy ran out of our office after we yelled "earthquake!" and the rest of us proceeded to retweet it.
Reminds me of... http://xkcd.com/723/
Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#54Felt it good and strong in Maryland (4th floor). Physicists, apparently, are just like Californians - very laid back, and pretend not to notice any earthquake (Yes, I reported to USGS.)
Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#55The correct magnitude is 5.9.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/us...
Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#56Felt it nice in NYC, panicked, walked down 25 floors, had a smoke, took the elevator back 5 minutes later.
Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#57Can someone who knows something about geology comment: is it normal for semi-large earthquakes to be correlated like this? When we went to Google News, the first thing we found were other earthquakes in Colorado and off Indonesia.
Indonesia has significant earthquakes multiple times most days, thanks to it's being Indonesia. Probably not connected.
Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#58Felt it in Indiana only because those in the Ohio office felt it as it happened. Too a few seconds to get a really minor horizontal movement.
Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#59Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#60Minor desk shaking in north NJ. As this was my first quake, I'm amazed you can feel it 300 miles away.
Same experience in PGH. I was vaguely relieved that it wasn't my house falling apart.