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Here in Cranford, It was a strange swaying feeling. Not the shaking feeling you always heard of. Either way, it was pretty strange. I looked out the window at the bird bath and the water was sloshing around.
felt it in weehawken! everything in my bedroom was shaking
I am in Weehawken as well, but I didn't feel it. I feel slighted, lol. All of my family members in Pittsburgh felt it and my mom's building got evacuated. I also talked to my family members in VA and DC and they of course felt it, but everything seems to be okay down there. It could have been much much worse.
I felt it in Mt. Arlington, NJ. I knew it was an earthquake right away since I lived in Turkey few years and it moves like a swing several times a year. I counted to 10 to see if it was going to get worse before I run for my son in his room and bolt out the door but I could tell it wasn't that strong so I just sat tight until it was over. A strangest thing about earthquakes is even after it is over, for several days, you will feel like earth is moving under your feet. It messes up human balance I think. It is a weird feeling.
I'm in Mt. Laurel at work. The whole building was shaking! I don't think I ran that fast ever in my life!
My mom in Woodbury called and told me they felt it there. Anybody know how it is in Wildwood? My son is there and I can't get ahold of him
I felt it in Mt. Arlington, NJ. I knew it was an earthquake right away since I lived in Turkey few years and it moves like a swing several times a year. I counted to 10 to see if it was going to get worse before I run for my son in his room and bolt out the door but I could tell it wasn't that strong so I just sat tight until it was over. A strangest thing about earthquakes is even after it is over, for several days, you will feel like earth is moving under your feet. It messes up human balance I think. It is a weird feeling.
I'm feeling like this - I thought it was just me! lol
South Jersey, outside Deptford. I thought my leg was shaking for a few seconds before the main quake hit. I'm sitting here with my cats in carriers in case we get an aftershock and need to leave the house. Any idea how long I should keep them penned up? I'm hearing the danger of aftershocks fades after an hour.
i did the same thing...the first tremors i thought was my knee shaking, as i sometime do, shaking my desk. then one of my coworkers said something as my monitor started shaking. love the twitter/fb world...knew within a couple minutes what it was. googled it and there were barely any mentions of it, yet someone had already checked a government site that had it pegged as a 5.8 outside of richmond. those lazy government workers, how'd they get that up there so fast!?
people in california are laughing non stop at us though. i had a call i was leading from 2:30-now and we northeasterners were talking about it (even felt as far out as ohio, and someone said detroit). the guys on the call from california were laughing at us saying that this measure was nothing. lol
I felt it in Mo'town. I was in a bathroom in an upper floor putting some eye drops in when the mirror in front of me started rattling. My thoughts:
-Are they doing construction outside?
-Am I hallucinating?
-Is my blood sugar too low? I should eat.
-Is something wrong with my eyes?
-What is this? What's going on?
Then, I stepped out of the bathroom into the hallway to see if I could feel it out there. Then I stepped back in the bathroom. Yup. Still rattling. After a few seconds it stopped and I dismissed the whole thing as a figment of my imagination and hopped on the internet to check email. That's when I figured out it had been an earthquake.
So, basically, if this were a disaster flick, I'd be one of the stupid people in the beginning that are the first to die.
honestly, anyone who wasn't around someone else to verify they weren't crazy probably experienced it basically the same way as you. in fact, a bunch of us looked at each other in the office, completely confused. "could wind do that?". "did the air conditioning just kick on"? we are in an old building...but we were confused. of course cell phones aren't really working. no real news on it. but facebook and twitter answered the question quickly. haha
i felt it and i was SCARED for my life. i was looking at my laptop while watching some documentary and i saw it shaking. at that instant, i looked at the corner of my room and also noticed that it was shaking too. right away, i knew that something was definitely not right because i never seen that before. needless to say, i didn't even wait to see if it was going to intensify so i got up ready to run the hell out the house. i woke up my older brother that was sleeping in his bedroom and told him to wake up and let's get the hell out of here. i know there's going to be more earthquakes coming. usually there are if it's an earthquake that strong. i reported that to the earthquake center right away thinking it was over here and then i check on the site and they said there was an earthquake in virginia. oh man... i was shook for real.
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