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Old 08-23-2011, 01:17 PM
 
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The last time it happened, I didn't feel it. This time it happened I still didn't feel it. I am sooooooo involved in my work that I'm so oblivious.
You're not alone. I didn't feel it either. I'll pretend I was too involved. Maybe I didn't feel it because I was driving my car at the time.
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Old 08-23-2011, 01:34 PM
 
Location: Litchfield Park, AZ
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I though it was me until everyone started saying "the building shaking" !!!

I am on the 12th floor of the BNY Mellon Client Service Center. SCARY!
I'm on the 11th floor of One Mellon Center, and we could feel the entire building shaking and swaying.
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Old 08-23-2011, 01:35 PM
 
Location: Litchfield Park, AZ
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and last week's flooding, too. What's next? Boils? Locusts?
zombies!
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Old 08-23-2011, 01:37 PM
 
Location: Portland, OR
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zombies!
or worse yet Tom Cruise...
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Old 08-23-2011, 01:42 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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I felt it in my classroom at Duquesne University. Ironically, even though I didn't feel the one that happened in Ottawa last summer, I was in the same exact room as when that quake happened. I was the first to put anything about it on facebook and then right after I posted something, I saw WTAE and WPXI both make a mention about shaking.
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Old 08-23-2011, 01:59 PM
 
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I was walking around downtown at the time - didn't feel anything but did notice more people than usual outside some major buildings. Apparently folks on my block at home felt it but I wasn't here then and, although my place does look like a tornado ripped through it, there's no evidence of earthquake damage.
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Old 08-23-2011, 02:09 PM
 
Location: Sh-ittsburgh, PA & Lancaster County, PA
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Nothing felt here in Pleasant Hills. I was sleeping, but mama said nope, nothing.
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Old 08-23-2011, 02:30 PM
 
Location: Southwest Pa
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Felt it here 35 miles southwest of the city. Sort of like somebody snuck up behind me and grabbed my chair. Looked out the window to see if a gust came through and saw the trees sway. Lady a half-mile down the road said it played havoc with her knick-knack shelves, family on the 4th floor of Uniontown Hospital said it shook the patient's beds.
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Old 08-23-2011, 03:12 PM
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Location: Pittsburgh
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Anyone else feel the earth move?
Yes. I was driving on Allegheny River Blvd. and was stopped at a red light and I thought my engine was sputtering, but the RPM's were smooth, so I looked in the mirror to see if the guy behind me bumped me and he was not even close. I had no idea what happened, but sure enough the earth moved beneath me. First time in my life I ever felt an earthquake. Kind of cool, but that was enough, thanks.
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Old 08-23-2011, 03:35 PM
 
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Yeah, and can you imagine that feeling magnified 10 or 20 fold and going on for over 5 minutes? Poor people in Japan had to endure that earlier this year.

Colorado/New Mexico border had a pretty big one this AM too.

Maybe that boulder on 28 was just getting out of dodge early this AM when it decided to mess up the commute.
The Japan earthquake was a 9. So if this was a 6 then Japan's was 1000 times more powerful.

Anyone check for a Mon/Allegheny/Ohio Tsunami?

I didn't feel anything in Atlanta but many people around the area claimed they did.
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