P-daddy

My first thought after the tremor was either an earthquake or terrorist bomb of our fed building. I called family and kids, and they were all ok. It took another 5 minutes to realize that my 993 is sitting on 4 jackstands My heart about stopped. I had put her up on stands yesterday to do some cleaning and picking up new shoes for her today after work. When I got home, I was so relieved to find her still standing on jacks. I will post up some pics of new wheels soon.

For many of us on the east coast have never experienced anything like this before. It was quite scary. Hope you guys and all loved ones are ok.

Quadcammer

everybody freaked out in downtown manhattan as is to be expected to some degree, but people way overreacted.

I'm on the 19th floor of my building, and it was some very mild bouncing for about 20 seconds.

Nothing at all dramatic up here.

NP993

DC shook pretty well. By the time I decided that maybe it would make sense to get under my desk, it had stopped.

Paddy

Our water main is broken here at home.

Mark in Baltimore

Two of my 1/18th scale cars moved a couple of inches and bumped each other. Also, one of the balanced zen rocks in my yard fell over. I believe chipmunks were scared. This earthquake is going to waste so much of my time as I attempt to get my life back in order.

Seriously, the quake was quite exciting and bizarre. My heart was racing for thirty minutes.

pcarhombre

We had the misfortune of being in Lima, Peru during that awful earthquake a few years ago. Let me tell you I almost pissed my pants and ran out of the restaurant that was on a pier out over the ocean in Miraflores. I was in such a hurry, I had to fight the crowd to go back and get my family. (I'll never live that one down) Compared to that, the effects here in Philly (while causing unpleasant recall) wasn't strong enough to even shake my drink. Although it did manage to wake our teenage son who was trying his best to sleep the day away!

jago

My office, shared with 30-40 people, is about 40 floors up in NYC.
We felt a shaking, and could see our computers move. It was similar
to what happens when the big HVAC in the building acts up.
There was a brief pause and it intensified a bit. At that point most of us
realized it was an earthquake, but an uneasy feeling grew as
some of our group experienced 9/11 across the street from WTC.
I was also briefly confused by a newstape that blared out 'Buildings in DC and NY shake'
Everyone stood up and looked out the windows to the street. Everything seemed normal
I believe if there was another wave many people here would have been frightened
and would've left their buildings quickly. I'm not sure that would be such a good
move among the tall buidings in a strong quake.

firesm

Sorry, I couldn't help myself - I love this clip...

2Many Cars

Glad everyone is OK. Get ready for a few aftershocks. I've been through a bunch of these over the years and I can tell you the novelty wears off pretty quickly. As earthquakes go 5.9 is a decent one and you can begin to appreciate what a 7 (more than 10 times stronger) feels like.

P-daddy

Wow, 10 fold from 5.9 to7? DC metro area was rocked pretty good. The walls shooked and the chair I sat on skidded side to side
.

2Many Cars

Yeah, that's how the Richter scale works, it's logarithmic. Every higher round number is 10X the number before it. So a 6.0 is 10X a 5.0 and a 7.0 is 100X a 5.0. I've been in a couple slightly over 7.0+ but not an 8.0 and I'm pretty sure I don't want to be.

JPS

Used to live in SF. My whole office evacuated. I stayed around until some mates pointed out if there was an aftershock we should be where we could get a beer.

Most amazing was that some people heard about it on Twitter BEFORE the earthquake hit their area...

Amfab

A friend from back east sent me this

swmic

TRINITONY

This is the big concern right now...

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/hurr...coast-14377422