Same here. Its not a good feeling :/

I didn't feel anything in NE Ohio.

I had just gotten out of the pool and was walking back to my house and I thought that I was having a dizzy spell. Glad to know it wasn't just me!

While I didn't feel it, I just got an email from our home office in McLean that all the buildings were evacuated (I was wondering why nobody was answering emails). Now it's back to business as usual.

Here in the DC area, my building shook a lot. Thing is, my coworkers and I thought I wad a bomb. Seemed a lot more believable than an earthquake. Which is pretty sad, I guess.

In NE Ohio, didn't feel anything.

LOL that pretty much sums up my thoughts on a 5.0+ earthquake. But I know it's unexpected for the east coast and likely many people there have never felt an earthquake before.

The DC fire department is reporting damage to the National Cathedral.

It's not too different from when West Coasters flip out over a few snowflakes. :)

Not only is it unexpected, our buildings are, as a whole older than those on the West Coast; furthermore, our office buildings are not seismically retrofitted or constructed in manner to resist such forces. I work in an engineering/architecture firm, and some of our structural guys were like, we hope a quake never really hits NYC, because we'll have a lot of problems. I'm laughing at our people freaking out, but I'm trying not to be too smug.

This is hilarious to me.

Is that photo supposed to be documentation of damage? I can put a chair down on my back porch, take a picture of it, and claim the same! :)

Yes, I recognize all of this. Good points. Out here our buildings are built for earthquakes (the Space Needle was even engineered to sway to a 45 degree angle in an earthquake), which is why we sustained very little damage in Seattle when we had our 7.0-ish quake in 2001. We also have earthquake drills in school...maybe they should do that on the east coast and along the Missouri fault if they don't already. If they did, everyone would know that running outside while the ground is shaking is the LAST thing you should do.

I felt that here in North Jersey. :eek:

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I never had earthquake drills, and I've lived on the East Coast my entire life. It happened during our lunch hour, so a lot of us who would have known better than to go outside were already out already...:(

Apparently they evacuated downtown Pittsburgh. I was southeast of the city and felt absolutely nothing.