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...was that just an earthquake? In Maryland? What the crap.

I don't know how y'all in California deal with this; weather services are calling this a 5.8 at the worst and it was still freaky.

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IDEK. USGS has the skinny. The amazing thing is how many of my tweeps are reporting feeling the 'quake. (I didn't feel a thing. Tall office building helps.)

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Apparently people felt the quake as far south as South Carolina, though not very far into South Carolina. It was mostly a surface quake; distance rather than depth.

Thankfully there haven't been any aftershocks that I've heard of.

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omg i was so scared, i could not handle this shit on a daily basis

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Me neither, I mean how do you do anything when the ground is fucking shaking I don't understand.

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The epicenter was less than a 100 miles from where I live. A whole lot of shakin' going on, man. That was definitely an interesting way to change up every day life. O_o

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Creepy! I hope nothing was heavily damaged where you lived; I heard it was worse near the epicenter.

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No kidding; under the same heading, we've got a hurricane bearing down on us--and you know how far inland we are.

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So I've heard! I'm really suprised that it hasn't died out when it moved that far inland. I hope you all stay safe!

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Well, the latest projections show it swinging up y'all's way after pushing high surf on our shores, and my area gets nothing (no rain is bad). So I guess it was a bit of a false alarm this far inland.

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I think everyone's taking extra precautions with the weather, in light of Joplin and Tuscaloosa, especially, and it never hurts to be careful. We're expected to get some rain, but that's about it.

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"I don't know how y'all in California deal with this"

Generally we stare at the wall and wait for it to stop.

It's really weird to hear about it over there.

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I can't imagine having to go about my day while the fucking ground is not steady. I mean, yeah it blew over quick, but those were some freaky 30 seconds.

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They don't really happen that often. Well, ones that register. And it's just kind of a quick rumble and...man, I don't know! Unsteady ground doesn't have as much impact in practice.

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I know what you mean. Maryland is weird.

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It's like we get little bits of the weather from everywhere else. We don't know what to expect!

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You always have the best subject lines...this could definitely be an icon, or at the very least a snazzy banner that gets passed around Tumblr. I too would like an answer from nature on this one.

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I thought you put banners at the top of pages! I don't know how Tumblr works. :(

I mean, as soon as we were all finished freaking out from the shaking, everyone in my family turned to each other and said, almost simultaneously, "We get earthquakes here?". It was very confusing.

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I didn't even notice it, but I'm like "...earthquake in Virgina?" I didn't even know there were any fault lines around there! O_O

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Apparently there is one, but it was thought to be inactive for a long time. Guess not, much to my surprise.

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I'm in VA. It was no big deal. Just some property damage here and there. Though people reacted like it was the zombie apocalypse, judging by the worse-than-usual traffic backups.

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I mean, I get that compared to what California gets (and especially in light of what happened in Japan), it wasn't anything major, but damn was it weird to feel everything shake and move and know that you can't tell how much worse it's going to get and there's nothing at all you can do about it. Scary business, even without the damage.

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I felt it all the way up in Connecticut, and all the big metal pipes and ducts on our factory ceiling were swinging around so much that we got evacuated so they could check for structural damage. o__O; I've only experienced one earthquake before this one, and the feelings were completely different. The first one I was in just felt like someone was kicking the back of my chair. This one felt like little waves on the ocean, and made me feel light-headed and dizzy. So bizarre...

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That far? I knew it had gone down to the Carolinas and up to New York, but hadn't heard of it going further north than the southern end of New York. I honestly slept through the earthquake we had last year, so just being able to feel this one (which I thought was someone dynamiting at the local quarry before the shaking abruptly got worse) was startling. I didn't see anything rippling, but it did feel like being on a boat in a choppy sea.

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