5.8 Earthquake hits Virgina and is felt up the coast

[shadowkat]

Well that was fun. Not. We were just evacuated and stood staring at our building in fright for about an hour. It was the 5.8 earthquake in Virgina. [I'm in Jamaica, Queens New York (on Long Island)]. The LIRR evacuated its office buildings.

Our whole building shook, it felt very weird. Like being on one of those shaky rides.

We're shaken but okay. And now back to work.

Comments

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're okay. ♥

[2maggie2.livejournal.com]

Glad you're OK!

[shapinglight]

Take care, won't you?

[ponygirl2000.livejournal.com]

Cool! We just had the blinds rattle up here.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

You felt it all the way up in Canada? Whoa.

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my world! *basks in the California sun*

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I'm still boggling that anyone has to to be assured that you're okay. Around here it's, "They had a what? *Shrug*."

OTOH, a very loose book could have tumbled from a high shelf and hit your head, so I'm glad you're okay. ; )

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

They actually explained on the news how its different from California earthquakes on the news. We're not used to them. And the plates are different. California is more concentrated, while the East Coast radiates outward - so damage can happen.

We didn't know it was an earthquake - we thought it was a bomb - it felt like 9/11. I didn't find out it was an earthquake until I was outside the building, starring at it for twenty minutes.

On the other hand - the news has gone nuts. They literally have had five hours of news coverage on the earthquake - in which no one was hurt, and only one building came down. It just freaked folks out, because we aren't used to it and it is rare here. Be sort of like having a flash flood in Arizona.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Actually, flash floods are quite common in Arizona. ; )

My mom called just to complain that the news was going overboard with it. But my flist seems a little rattled.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

There too? Really went overboard here. But it is a historic event.
Like once in a 100 years event. Or once a decade. The east coast doesn't get earthquakes. Hurricanes, yes, Earthquakes, no.
Do you get hurricanes?

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

No, she meant news=CNN.

Hurricanes, not so much. Biggest weather problem here besides heat is flash floods.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Heard it was getting up to 118 tonight out there. Ugh.

Yeah, CNN does go overboard on stuff like this. They are killing time until Hurricane Irene hits...then we'll have nothing but that for five days. I swear there's far too much news on, they don't have anything to talk about - so when an earthquake or a tornado hits somewhere it normally doesn't - they act like it's the apocalypse.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, the 24-hour news station has always struck me as a bizarre idea. Unless they branched out and did more international news for a change.....