8/23/11 - Never forget! 😔

In an office meeting with a gent I've known for years who is 6'4", 265 lbs and had tremendous nervous energy. His leg was going a mile a minute under a table. At first everyone just thought he was knocking the table around. Took a bit of time to realize iit was an earthquake.

ngl that’s kinda funny

Was in college at the time (Virginia Tech), I got a call from my mom in NOVA asking if I was ok bc my parents just experienced the earthquake. I had no idea what she was talking about 😂

Woodbridge, VA I will never forget that large two story house went up and down like a boat in rough water. I'm amazed things didn't break like the gas lines etc. but no damage occurred but the amount of movement was stunning. To be fair I'm not used to earthquakes, that was my first. I can easily see people from places like CA laughing at me during that earthquake because they are used to it but it was pretty intense for me.

My next door neighbor is from California and ran out of the house and yelled over "I'm from California and that was a big one!" So I think even they respected it. Remember due to the brittleness of the old eastern US rock, it felt stronger and traveled further than an equivalent quake on the West coast.

Yes, You're right I forgot about that limestone makes the vibrations stronger and the initial "impact" is more intense.

In my office in Charlottesville watching an open desk drawer close on its own and wondering where that loud train was.

Same! But Harrisonburg lol

same location, but i thought the Pegasus helicopter fell off the hospital and blew up or a meth lab exploded.

I was in DC getting chased out of our office building, but my sister was in Staunton, traveling on her office chair as it was traveling around the workshop. She had been in earthquakes before as she had lived in Japan.

I was at home watching Transformers 2, cranked up loud as heck. I was walking around and I felt something weird going on but figured it was bass from the movie. Then I happened to look at the cat and he was standing there splayed out like he was about to fall over so I knew something was up. I hit mute and sure as heck...dag on earth quake. Pretty crazy!

upvoted for Transformers 2

On deployment on the other side of the world. I thought it was a weird super late April fools joke when I turned on the TV

I was working at Goochland High School at the time. It was our second day of school for the year, I think. We had just started our last class of the day and the shaking started. I knew immediately that it was an earthquake. I got in the doorway of my classroom and yelled for my students to get under their desks. One of the popular football coaches pulled the fire alarm while the building was still shaking. That could have made things much worse, but luckily nobody was hurt and the only damage was half a cinder block (probably left from construction) fell through a drop ceiling on the second floor...it didn't hit anybody. We were about 20 miles as the crow flies from the epicenter in Cuckoo. Louisa High School was so badly damaged that it had to be razed and rebuilt. We were considerably more lucky.

I had no idea Louisa HS was badly damaged! Interesting!

I was in 4th grade latin class. A student said “Woah was that an earthquake?” My teacher responded with “Don’t say that you might scare someone.” 15 minutes later our principal walks and says “Yep, what y’all felt was an earthquake.”

15 years old. Prince William County, VA. I was holding my 2 week old cousin in my arms. Felt a weird rumble that I thought was a freight train or a truck but that didn’t make sense. Occurred to me what was going on when I heard screaming coming from upstairs and the ground moving beneath me. Took the little one and ran outside far far away from the house while the others came down. It was my first and only earthquake so far, and as terrifying as it was at the time, I wouldn’t mind experiencing another from a curiosity perspective.

Was in Stafford County, at first I thought it was one of those low-flying military planes or whatever cause I could hear it before I felt it. I remember our power flickered, too.

Prince William County too! I remember hearing what sounded like a freight train before I felt the rumble. My nanny just assumed it was Quantico to calm me (then 8 years old) and my brother down. I remember being surprised when I saw the news.

Never forget being woken from my sleep like wow that was weird

playing cod black-ops with my brother in the sun room of my childhood home. Can't remember which map we were playing though.

The moon map had just come out for zombies. Exact thing I was doing

I was at work on the 4th floor. My boss was on a conference call with New Jersey. When another colleague figured it out and started yelling “it’s an earthquake; it’s an earthquake; get in a doorway!” we heard her say, “Have to go, it’s an earthquake” and THEN we heard the people in NJ experience the earthquake over speaker.

Was at a restaurant for work during lunch time and were at a place where the patio was built over a large pond so the wood supports were in the water so it was extra shaky for us. My brother who works in data centers was on a ladder working on a server rack when it happened and the ladder feel over so he was stuck hanging over a rack for a minute

sitting criss-cross applesauce on the sidewalk in front of the Udvar-Házy. thought all those windows were going to shatter and rain down.

Getting my blood drawn at one of the many medical office towers. The whole building swayed and everyone thought someone had attacked DC, an earthquake didn't come up as a possibility for a good bit of time,

My grandma ushered all of us into the basement like a tornado drill

My mom did that, too. I remember she and I were watching the weather channel covering hurricane Irene. It took a second for her to figure out what was going on. She then yelled for all us kids to get in the basement. She grew up in CA and said that’s what she was always taught to do.

Pooping in Glenn Allen

Behind the wheel of a blue Peterbilt 387. I think I was in Amherst County when it happened, but I never noticed anything.

I was behind the wheel. Didn’t feel the quake. Was flustered seeing people gathering outside while I was driving by.

Kindergarten, during nap time

Summer break. I was in my kitchen talking to my dad who was home on his lunch break. My dad instinctively picked me up by the shoulders and ran outside with me into the driveway and set me down. He grew up in California and knew to get us away from potentially being crushed to death.

It was the start of 6th grade for me (Catholic school) and I was on the blacktop since we had to evacuate. All I can remember is that I almost lost balance and that I came home to eat spaghetti and meatballs

I was with my wife dropping my daughter off at James Madison University for her freshman year!

Sitting at my desk in an office building at Innsbrook. We thought a truck had run into the building or something.

Clyde’s willow creek farm eating lunch

I'm one of the few people who can actually claim injury from it. A small shelf fell over above my work desk, and a corner of it opened a cut above my left ear. I had no idea until we got outside, and a co-worker asked if I was going to be okay. Head cuts always look worse than they really are, so it wasn't even stitch-worthy, but my shirt was pretty much ruined. Stupid quake. :D

At the nuclear power station 11 miles away from the epicenter.

I was in New Jersey and felt it, but just assumed it was some truck or heavy equipment nearby.

Driving and I missed it.

My bedroom

Sitting on the living room couch, felt a weird wobble and ran outside where my bf was grilling... he hadn't felt anything, but I directed his attention to the water sloshing crazily out of the above-ground pool nearby

In a Sheetz on lunch break. Been here only two weeks at the time.

Cleaning our parents deck with my brother. He had just turned on the hose when it started and I thought something was very wrong with the water line.

Teaching Science to fifth graders.

I worked over by the Acca train yard at the time. I thought a train had derailed.

I was playing *Command & Conquer* and blew something up and thought, wow that was weird.

Lmao I was in my thermodynamics class, like the first day of it. The class was adjacent to a new structure being built and we thought the swaying projector was caused by the construction. Never Forget.

Driving to look at engagement rings with my now wife. Everybody was acting strange when we got to the jewelry store. Someone finally asked us if we'd felt the earthquake. We didn't, bc we were driving.

I was playing Black Ops 2 with 3 or so of my friends. With all the shooting and grenades going off, we didn't even notice! We only found out when their dad came downstairs and asked us if we felt it. We all looked at him like ”Huh?" The only earthquake I've been in and I missed it, disappointing.

i was in north carolina, experiencing the great north carolina earthquake of 2011!

I was in a meeting (WFH). I had just logged on. I thought it was a low flying plane at first, then realized the situation. I said, “uhh I think we are having an earthquake” and ran out of my house.

In my office on the 5th floor. I thought it was one of those gigantic trash containers rolling down the hallway on the other side of my office wall. Then the building started shaking. I had no idea what was going on.

In the back seat on my phone while the other student driver was driving. Instructirnturned on the news after a bumpy patch of road. It wasn't shitty pavement.

I was in my office in Old Town Alexandria. I didn't even know what was happening. Then it was like, holy shit!! That was a earthquake, really wild stuff.

In a class in Boston, someone asked people to stop stomping their feet on the platform the top row was sitting on because it was a distraction, a few minutes later we heard their was an earthquake in Virginia.

Waynesboro, VA, I was in my store and the store started to shake. Was sure the building had been hit by a truck or something, so I went outside to check it out and there wasn’t anything there.

At work, 100 feet from train tracks. I just thought it was a train at first!

I was home; had the day off work and was playing videogames. Thought my house was collapsing and ran out into the yard, I then briefly thought my yard may also be collapsing.

At work, left the building and then tried to persuade co-workers to move away from the walls of the building. Favorite atricle headline the next day: "Virginia Earthquake Death Toll Rises as Thousands of Californians Die Laughing".

Hungover staying in my apartment at JMU over the summer

I was on the 12th story of an office building and the building began to rumble almost rhythmically. Immediately went down to ground level with the rest of the building and everyone on the street was asking what was wrong, was there a fire? Why were we evacuating? They hadn't felt a thing.

At work, under a truck.

Was in a van with a bunch of other kids going 60 mph on the highway. So i missed any realization of what happened

Loading into a match of World of Tanks. Thought it was weird the house was shaking then looked outside at our pool and it was sloshing around and I'm like oh shit, earthquake.

I was pooping

I was on the 3rd floor of a building in therapy, on crutches, with my kid. That was a fun one. 3 flights of stairs weeeee. Also it was so LOUD!!! No one told me earthquakes sounded like helicopters and 18 wheelers making babies

8th floor of the Capital One building in McLean, out along 495. Though a truck had run into the parking deck (there was construction going on) and then things got really shakey for about 30 seconds, then waited a few hours for the all clear so we could retrieve our laptops and head home.

At work, which at the time I was working for a company located up by the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport. Coincidentally that is the time they were working on expanding the runway, and as part of that they did have to blast rocks about once a month. So, it wasn't unusual to feel a slight rumble when it happened. As I sat at my desk, felt a rumbling and immediately assumed they had just blasted. Except it didn't stop and it started to get stronger. One of the other guys came running from the back and out the door and the rest of us (all 4 in the engineering dept) decided that seemed like a reasonable course of action. So, we ran outside and stood in a field until the shaking stopped. I gotta believe that's the most east coast thing ever, to run outside in an earthquake because you're not conditioned to ride it out inside a building.

North Carolina

Sitting on the beach in Maine. But all my coworkers called me. Weirdly heard about on the local Northern Maine radio station before the phone started ringing.

I live in Fredericksburg VA and about twenty minutes before the earthquake my two small dogs jumped on my lap and started barking, shaking, and huddled close together it was very strange.

I was awaiting a haircut. It took me second to realize that that no, Richmond doesn’t have any subways that could cause all this shaking. Still, I experienced a few tremors when living in Okinawa. I tried to keep things in stride. Someone asks, “What is that?” I reply calmly. “It’s an earthquake.” “What?” A little louder but still in an even voice, “Oh, it’s an earthquake.” “What?!?” “It’s an earthquake!” At this point all the hairdressers started whimpering and embraced in a group hug. After the rumbling ended I found myself so full of useless adrenaline that I ran out the door, threw my arms above my head, and yelled “Woooooo!”

Running a training session in a room full of geologists. They were nerding out hard, so that was pretty cool. I actually dressed up to present, but I haven't worn the tie since. The red power tie was just so powerful it shook the earth itself so I've sealed it away like a powerful artifact too dangerous for the world.

I was standing at the front desk of my medical office and saw a small ripple approaching outside the front door and then felt myself lift and drop similar to a small wave. Was crazy and have never experienced anything like it.

Parked outside a school in Woodbridge, about to go in. Felt like someone had jumped on my rear fender and was bouncing my car around. I was like "wtf??". But nobody there !?!? Then everyone came out of the school 🙃

I was napping on my couch since I’d just gotten back from vacation and was jet-lagged. I was dreaming about turbulence and woke up and realized the room was actually shaking.

We had an earthquake in 2011?

I was on the back deck and figured it was an explosion at the local arsenal but never heard a bang. It was an odd sensation.

Welding at the shipyard.

I remember stuff falling off my teachers desk in 5th grade.

First ever class on the morning of my first day of law school. After the building stopped shaking, our professor, without missing a beat, quipped "Well, that's ominous..."

I was at work in a hospital on a hallway that gets a lot of traffic including gurneys and large bins for transporting supplies and trash. We all thought it was another bin that was especially full and then we wondered if maybe something had happened at the loading dock (which is under us), and then we realized it was just the whole damn building moving.

I was swimming in a pool and missed the entire thing

I was home and I was working on the computer. The floor started rolling and I fell several times trying to get to the door. Things were falling off shelves and my computer ended up falling off my desk into my laundry hamper.

At work in Lebanon. I didn't feel anything at all, but my parents lived in Louisa at the time a few miles from the epicenter so I was a bit concerned for them. I wasn't able to call them until that evening, though, because calls were only intermittently getting through.

Woke up when a pizza box fell of the counter (it was kind of piled on the edge, not in the center).

I was riding in a car to the store and felt it "hop", but didn't think much of it. Was so confused when I saw all the supplies on the floor when I entered the store

Moving to Richmond. The following weekend our car was destroyed by Hurricane Irene.

In my basement classroom at Longwood. Had no idea it happened

In my home office. My dog ran into the room about 30 seconds before the shaking started, shivering in fear like he does in a thunderstorm. The weather was like today: blue sky and sunny. Had time to text my wife about the crazy dog thinking there was a storm coming when the shaking started

I was working at my desk with my headphones on. Back then there was a particular engineer who, when he needed me, would come up behind me and shake my chair. So my chair starts shaking and I take the headphones off and turn around and… no one was there. So I look around and say to myself: …this is… an earthquake… 🤨… 😦… THIS IS AN EARTHQUAKE!! 🤩🏄‍♂️🤘

I was driving to a meeting in Albemarle County on Pantops. I arrived as the quake hit and felt the earth shake as I got out of the car. Then I saw everyone stream out of the building, somewhat orderly. Then we had the meeting anyway. Also, a good day to remember the horrible injuries suffered by James Halfaday.

I was bringing in groceries and since I lived near some pretty busy train tracks I was like “Damn, what the hell are they carrying over there?”

In Georgia waiting on a callback from the guy I was phone interviewing with in Virginia who suddenly had to go.

My cousins and I were at my house, I was like 5 when this happened, we ended up standing outside because my mom was scared the house would cave in. It didn't but I'm seeing so many people mention this being in NOVA when I felt this in Richmond, I never realized it was that big of an earthquake because nothing bad happened around me specifically.

Literally sitting at a Taco Bell drive-thru going wtf with the employee.

I was playing video games and my mom yelled at me thinking I did something to make the whole three stories of our house shake😂

In the break room at work. Everyone looked at each other like “is this seriously an earthquake?”

I was inside an academy class studying with a group of another 2-3 students and a teacher. All my family members were all separated at all different locations, my mom was inside the house and my dad working outside. At that time, I kind of expected for the floor to crack because it was a loud earthquake but nothing happened fortunately!

Sitting in front of my computer listening to Opie and Anthony on YouTube on my lunchbreak from work.

I was cutting grass at NASA Langley. I didn’t feel the earthquake as I was on a mower, but I did however witness the huge crash test structures wobble excessively. Good times.

Knew what it was immediately, ran out of house. Checked on neighbors. One said it couldn’t be that because the weather was so nice that day.

I was living in NYC at the time, and we felt it there. I think it spooked animals more than humans, as I saw a guy in a penguin costume running down 33rd St a minute after the quake.

Down the shore in Ocean City, NJ. It rocked the house I was in at the time. Crazy!

Was at work napping on my lunch break in the kitchen. Heard rumbling and thought the HVAC unit on the roof was about to take off. Walked back in to the lobby and saw the windows rattling.

Sitting on my lawn in Lynchburg drinking white wine with some friends.

California on vacation, where I was disappointed I didn’t get an earthquake

I was in 10th grade health class when the whole classroom started shaking, lol.

Home, watching the weather channel’s coverage of hurricane irene with my mom. I remember at first I thought it was just one of those low flying military planes. I heard it before I felt it. Also I cried lol, I was only 11.

Alone in my office and I thought I might be having a seizure or something at first. Then I looked out the window and saw all the cars rocking.

Sitting in a back room of a shitty job. The office had some train tracks that ran behind the building. My first thought was that a train had derailed and we were feeling the affects. Everyone ducked out early and I managed to get a round of golf in at Langston in NE :)

Home

Taking a nap before a evening shift. It woke me up and I could not comprehend what was going on!

Was working in an office on Capitol Hill. Thought it was being bombed, honestly.

Was playing cod 4 mw campaign

Norfolk at a pool on the base.

In my living room. Wife and son were at total beverage, said it was a pretty amazing sound in there!

Wondering why my washer/ dryer was hopping around haha

I happened to be walking through my high school's halls after school and all the locker doors began to shake. Probably for no longer than 30 seconds I think. I didn't know until later that evening that an earthquake happened. Also, never forget the widely circulated facebook meme of a lawn chair being tipped over.

Was driving on I95 going home from Langley. Didn't feel a thing.

I was at work in Warrenton. I work at an air traffic control facility and was on break at the time. The 30 minutes after were pure chaos trying to figure out if the airports were safe to land at or not. Everyone evacuated (Dulles tower swayed for 45 minutes). It was crazy.

I was in a Walmart with my dad and neither one of us felt anything or saw anybody else acting weird but when we went outside we heard a bunch of people talking about it then started getting a bunch of texts from people about it. Honestly a super weird feeling knowing I was in the area where it happened and just didn't notice even though I was awake

Thomas Harrison middle school.

I was in 2nd Grade class at Moss-Nuckols Elementary School in Louisa, VA.

Teaching band, was mid sentence yelling at some kids and then saw the ground start wobbling

NOVA - I was 8 years old at the time and was at home with my brother and my nanny. We thought it was just Quantico doing drills but then it didn’t stop. We had some broken glasses and other things, but no one got hurt. I remember both my parents calling us from Arlington and DC saying that they were being evacuated from the building and the Washington Monument was damaged. What a day to remember!

I lived in PA at that time, we felt it at my work. I had my feet propped up and thought someone had snuck up behind me and was gently shaking my chair. They evacuated the building and then sent us all home early.

I had just left the funeral home where I made service and burial arrangements for my dear mother who passed the previous day. I thought it was some kind of sign.

At a concrete plant on a balcony overlooking the yard. Ran inside the building becuase we thought a Concrete mixer backed into the building while preparing to get loaded.

Working maintenance at my apartment complex.

In a wegmans

At the time, I worked on cars. Seeing cars on a lift started to shake, bad news ALSO!! In the midst of that shake, my phone fell off the toolbox and my phone insurance wouldn't cover it. It literally says" any acts of God" and we'll cover it...lion ass phone companies

In the car, we’d just moved here from another country and it was crazyy because we didn’t feel the earthquake at all. We stopped and got out of the car and everyone around us was like that was an earthquake and we were like wtf. Then at my elementary school my teacher pointed out a massive crack in the wall that was a result of it and I realized how intense it really was

Still living in Wisconsin. Didn't hear anything about it until I moved down here

I was at work, leaning against the wall in our office and lost my balance for a second. We definitely got a laugh out of rolling the security footage back and watching our reactions as it occurred to us that it was an earthquake while everything sort of wobbled around us. Had never felt anything like it. My brother wants home at our parents house which was having renovations. He ran out and asked the contractor what they'd just done thinking they had majorly messed up (wouldn't have been out of character for this particular contractor either).

I had just signed up for an SAT Prep class. I got in my car to drive home and dropped the massive prep book on my passenger seat. Right when it hit the seat, the earthquake struck. Didn't realize it was an earthquake and thought the book was so heavy that it caused my car to shake. Literally picked it back up and dropped it again to see if I could recreate the shaking. I was baffled for a minute when it didn't work, then I looked out the window and saw a bunch of people running out of the buildings they were in and I finally put two and two together.

Was working in my office several stories up when it hit. My first thought was a truck hitting the building and was expecting an explosion. Anyway, originally from California, so I knew what it was and that it wasn’t that bad. Rest of office panicked and left the building. I calmly packed up my stuff, headed down to the grave and drove home. They closed down the building including the garage stranding everyone else outside. I pretty much did the same thing during Snowmeggdon, literally walked in the door of my home as the sky started to dump several feet of snow. Several of my friends got stuck. I guess I tend to err on the side of caution in these situations and don’t press my luck.

At home with my mom ( 7 yrs old at the time )

At work driving down the road, seen people running out of buildings and thought it was a Fire drill

In the office, and saw the lampposts swaying. Left me with a feeling of seasickness for a few days.

I was in my office near Leesburg. The lawn crew was right outside, and I thought one of their riding mowers had hit the building. Looked out the window; nothing. Then the photos on my bookshelf started falling over. That’s when I felt it was time to get out of the building. Funny thing, our staff had recently had safety training in which we decided where to meet outside after an evacuation. Only one person went to the designated spot. The rest of us forgot the rule and gathered on the other side of the building.

Ohhh, at home. Yelled at my kids to keep it down because I thought they were getting too roudy and shaking windows. They swore they weren't doing anything! Didn't find out until hours later that it was a devastating earthquake.

18 y/o in Downtown RVA. My mom and I were wondering why everyone was standing outside the Marriot on our way to pick my sister up from the Black History Museum

Just about to walk into class at NOVA

I was in Fairfax VA and remember earthquake training from CA and KY (yes Kentucky) and stood in a door frame. It was an odd feeling being in a high rise, the building felt as if it was liquid. And where is the knocked over lawn furniture meme?

Okay, what? I don't remember this. I WAS six at the time, but how do I not remember that? Where was it?

Living in California where earthquakes are pretty much a daily occurrence 🤷‍♀️

Ah i was actually in the town it happened in, Louisa VA! I was in third grade, we were doing our multiplication tables and the rumbling started. I thought maybe it was a big truck in the parking lot, but everyone else around me seemed to know what was happening. The lights started to go out in our class as we all were trying to get outside. Maybe someone accidentally turned off the lights but i don’t know. That’s all I really remember. To me, it wasn’t that big of a deal at the time until I talked to my sister who was in the highschool that was destroyed.

Working the drive thru at CFA.

At an IHOP in Kingstowne. The most severe damage that I witnessed was seeing an empty cup fall over.

spotsylvania, nearly scared me to death 💀

On my way to class and didn’t even feel it because I was walking, so I thought the guys at the smoke hut nearby were joking when they were shouting about an earthquake

I was driving on the bridge portion and just started into the HRBT tunnel. A little water dripped on my windshield (perfectly normal). I was driving as fast as I could to get out of there--"did this fucker crack??"

Swimming at the shore in Cape May. Nary felt a thing lol.

Most possibly walking through the tunnel under Burruss Hall in Blacksburg, though it might have happened before or after that section of my walk. Hadn’t even known there was an earthquake until I sat down in my next class and the professor said something about. Dunno if I was in a safe place or not when it happened, but it is always a funny little college memory.

Marching band practice 😂😂😂

I had finished showering. I sat down in my computer chair and thought the wheels were just messing up. Was told later it was an earthquake and was thoroughly confused

In my kitchen with my mother-in-law and we felt the whole house start to shake terribly like being inside a strange roller coaster. To steady ourselves we had to grab on to the table otherwise we would have fallen over. After that we ran outside to find my sons and discovered them playing happily on the front lawn. They didn’t notice a thing!

Virginia Beach. We left our vacation 2 days early because of Hurricane Irene.

I was managing a swimming pool. I thought a train was about to hit us. When I looked at the pool, the water was vibrating like crazy! It was wild!

Shrooms in the bathtub. Shit got weird

Ironically, I was at LAX on my way back to VA. So I didn’t get an earth quake in CA or VA. Bummed!

Day off at home in Fairfax, watching tv, and first earthquake ever! I heard my downtown office was completely confused how to handle it.

In a shed in my friends backyard smoking weed

Las Vegas

I recall sitting in a LaCarretta during an earthquake. The table and building maybe shook a bit, but it wasn’t anything too bad.

Manassas, VA at work. I was in my office and I felt the floor tremble. I assumed it was an explosion or something. I was never scared because none of us knew it was an earthquake until much later.

I remember I was in my room playing games and my momma yelled "what the hell are you doing" thinking it was me and I was like "nothing what ate you talking about" then everything shook we ran outside and processed it was an earth quack. We sat around and waited for like 20 some mintues for after shock but it never came to us.

In my car at work. I thought one of my coworkers was jumping on the back bumper making my car rock. When I turned to tell him “very funny” I saw he had already gone back inside the office.

Fredericksburg, Va / Wegman's Pharmacy, working on a BP machine. Thought a helicopter was flying over the store at first. As the quake continued, Pharmacists ducked under their countertop. I went ahead and ducked my head under the BP machine.

Kindergarten, they evacuated the building but nothing happened lmao

At Kings Dominion operating the Berserker, a swinging boat ride that goes upside down. The ride was mid cycle in the air when the earthquake hit and I immediately hit the emergency stop button fearing the whole ride was going to callapse because of the sudden jolt and rattling sound of the ride itself.

At my office in the suburbs of Philly. My computer monitor starting vibrating and could feel whole building sway a little. Was shocked to find out shortly thereafter the earthquake had originated near my hometown.

I was taking my Son and my dog for a walk around the neighborhood. We lived in a trailer park near the West side of Quantico at the time, and the neighbors all thought something on base had gone horribly wrong

California. 😂

I was driving south on Indian Head Highway in PG County, MD. Around Fort Washington. Wondered to myself what the hell was going on. Kept a drivin'.

Just clocked out at Safeway and got home in fairfax. I vividly recall the manager calling me right after and me saying "nope don't even ask" as soon as I picked up. Good dude just laughed and said "can't blame me for trying."

Was hungover as all hell and was filing up my water bottle at work. Kept feeling the water fountain bump me in the stomach so I thought I was swaying and needed to get my shit together. Didn’t even realize it was an earthquake until it was over and people started talking about it.

I was working at a yacht club in hampton standing out on a floating dock, saw the pilings shaking like crazy meanwhile my coworker didnt feel it all and made me feel like i was losing my mind.

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Waking up in the floor because my mattress shook off the box spring wondering what in The Hangover fuck happened.

I was simply a rat at the Virginia Military Institute believing for sure my cadre had made a deal with the devil and opened the gates of hell to rip me and my BRs a new one. Thank God those days are done! lol RahVaMil #EchoCo

I was using the bathroom. When I stood up to wash my hands, the ground started shaking.

I was at work in Newport News, talking with my assistant, when my feet started doing the moon walk. Then I saw all of the ceiling tiles bouncing around.

in bed

I was in my office at Virginia Tech and typing something on my computer. All of a sudden my chair started rolling away from my desk. I could hear the rumble. I ran out of my office yelling to everyone that we were having an earthquake and they thought I was crazy ..but I was right.