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Holy cow...I felt the earthquake!
August 23, 2011
2:23 pm
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Chuck Slusarczyk Jr.

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For the first time in my life I have experienced an earthquake!  At 1:56 this afternoon, I was emailing my dad when my desk and lamps and plants started to move ever so slightly.  I could see everything moving in synch and stopped what I was doing.  I told my dad that I thought I had just felt an earthquake and started watching the news.  Sure enough, there was a quake centered in central Virgina just a couple minutes before I felt it...just enough time to make it here:

 

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Others had to have felt it around here...did any of you?

August 23, 2011
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Me too! At work. News is saying control towers in NY closed for inspection. Might see some diversions to CLE

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August 23, 2011
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My cousin on the east coast of Virginia felt it, but there's apparently no damage or anything.  It was her first one too!

 

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And another cousin of mine on the 13th floor of the Rockefeller building said they were rockin' and rollin!

August 23, 2011
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That was different.  I felt it.  I then got a text from City Ops that CLE's runways were being inspected as a precaution because of it.  Lots of plains and trains going to be messed up on the east coast for awhile. I'm with Mark.  Look for some diversions.

August 23, 2011
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felt it here in akron, my first time too 😀

August 23, 2011
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I was driving to work, at that time and did not feel any shaking.  Also, I am farther from the source than you are.

August 24, 2011
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I live a couple of miles from DC's National Cathedral, which was damaged, and really felt the quake - enough that I got out of my house in a hurry, just like everybody else on the street who was home at the time.  Everything was shaking, with popping and cracking noises.  I'd been through a number of quakes in the Philippines (high frequency vibrations) and California (lurchy) - this was stronger and it lasted longer.  I actually thought the house might split.

 

The local TV stations seem disappointed there was so little damage; they can't find much to report on - they just keep saying "Gee Whiz" a lot.

August 24, 2011
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I slept thru it.  Here's a link for some Cleveland area earthquake history.

 

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August 25, 2011
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I was in Quincy, MA when the tremor hit.  I was lying in bed having just gone down for a nap and I felt a gentle rocking of the bed.  I knew instantly that it was an earthquake.  Nobody else in my family felt it.

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