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.

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[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.....