Experienced my first earthquake this morning...

[Quigley Brown]

I live in central Maryland and apparently the area had a 3.6 magnitude temblor at 5 a.m. EST. That was weird..... [huh]

 

[Zemke Fan]

We felt it too...

Apparently it was RIGHT under us in Germantown. I thought they'd resumed nuclear testing!

Epicenter was approximately 1.5 miles from the house.

 

[Yeps]

I just got an email from my mom talking about this too.

Apparently it was RIGHT under us in Germantown. I thought they'd resume nuclear testing!

You live in Germantown? That is where I am from. Right now I am in Italy, and I go to school in the city, so I am not home very much, but it is good to know there is another lounger nearby.

 

[kamikat]

Yup, I felt it, too, in Rockville. I was already awake and it woke up my dogs.

 

[JPH]

Experienced my first earthquake this morning...

Welcome to California!

Joseph
Rockin' an' Rollin' since 1964

 

[Paisley]

Central California had a 6.5 shaker in 2003 that I missed by a day. I was there for the aftershocks, though.

 

[Foofoogal]

Heard about it on the news. Very weird.

 

[Dinerman]

Wasn't that fun?

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

When I lived in Ohio we had a few that could be felt. Most notably the quake of 1986,...actually shook the building I was in! I came to find out later that there is a fault under Lake Erie that extends down through the state and on into the Appalachian Mountains. Prior to this I thought eathquakes only happened in a few places.

 

[WideBrimm]

Wasn't that fun?

No Thanks Solid ground beneath my feet is best

 

[hailey greenhat]

Was it a rolling quake (most people get a feeling of motion sickness/headache with this) or did it just shake a lot? I hate rolling quakes! I've lived in the same house in california for 21 years and big earthquakes still make me uneasy, heavy glass things breaking near me? No thanks!

 

[kamikat]

Was it a rolling quake (most people get a feeling of motion sickness/headache with this) or did it just shake a lot? I hate rolling quakes! I've lived in the same house in california for 21 years and big earthquakes still make me uneasy, heavy glass things breaking near me? No thanks!

It just shook. It wasn't very long and nothing was damaged. According to friends who live in Cali, it wasn't big enough to make the news if it had been in Cali. It's the biggest one we've had here since 1973, so it was unusual. I'll take a blizzard or a hurricane over shaking ground any day.

 

[Solid Citizen]

The QUAKE

I live in central Maryland and apparently the area had a 3.6 magnitude temblor at 5 a.m. EST. That was weird..... [huh]

WE did NOT feel anything this AM! Solid Citizen

 

[James71]

Did the earth move for you?

:eusa_doh:

 

[JPH]

According to friends who live in Cali, it wasn't big enough to make the news if it had been in Cali.

Well, it probably would have made the news, but just as a footnote. The kind of thing that would have had most folks going "There was an earthquake? Where was it centered and how big was it?... Oh, is that all?"

From the report on the size of this one, it sounds like some of the smaller aftershocks we get intermittently from the plates readjusting after a slip. If we feel a larger quake from far away, or an aftershock from someplace more local, sometimes it just feels the same as if a rather enormous truck just went rumbling by on the street. The space shuttle reentering earth's atmosphere to land at Edward AFB can fool some people that there was just an earthquake as well. Typically I don't even begin to get concerned until the strong shaking lasts longer than, say, 10 sec, or if stuff start really shaking/falling/breaking, etc.

But no doubt, going through one for the first time can be alarming. I've seen folks from other places with eyes the size of CDs and a very shocked/frightened look on their face, while I just look at them and shrug.

Joseph
Well seasoned.

 

[Grant Fan]

My family live in MD Frederick to be exact and my mother called to wake me and tell me about it, she was a bit frightened. They live in a massive 200 year old home and she said the house shook and actually moaned a bit. I am just glad no one was hurt back home.

 

[waffle]

what's up with the earthquake hitting the east coast? odd..

i experienced my first in Peru back in 07.. that one measured in at 8.0. it was intense, especially the amount of work we did during the aftermath.

 

[Grant Fan]

where ever you have mountains you have fault lines so while it isn't common for them to happen where it happened, but it is possible.

 

[waffle]

where ever you have mountains you have fault lines so while it isn't common for them to happen where it happened it is possible.

yup, very true.. they just aren't very common. i believe there were some tremors out in NY just a couple of weeks ago.

 

[staggerwing]

My first too - woke up to a weird rumbling sound and the glass doors on the fireplace in the bedroom were rattling. At first I thought it was the train (the tracks are about a quarter mile away) but the train isn't that loud and never caused the doors to rattle. I thought it might be a military plane - there seems to be a lot more of them in the DC area these days - but the sound continued for too long. Finally, just before it subsided, I woke up my wife and said "I think we're having an earthquake."

Best
Staggerwing