It was a scary one too!!!!
Chair shook, ironing board wocked back and forth and so did iron..
I had to catch the iron or it would have fallen.
Started in DC this morning

glad you saved the iron I just this minute saw on the news - they belive started in Virginia. We have hurricanes but no earthquakes

Phew - scary.

Glad all of you are OK.

Hi,
I hope you are all okay, I was just telling my hubby down in London about it, looked it up online, the news filtered through to our media after I heard about it here!!!
I didn't think the East coast was prone to earthquakes, am I wrong. I thought it was over the California side that they were always on the watch out.
Take care,
Sue (rummage)

In Va this morning 5.9!!!!!!!OMG

We are OK Thank you for asking,Whewwww, scary!!!
There are all kinds of Fault Lines on the Eastern coast..
There is one that runs through Ohio
This isn't the first time I have felt EQ in Ohio!!
One was so bad about 22-25 yrs ago, we got out of the house....Cracked walls, things tossed over.....

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/
This link has lots of earthquake information.

The East Coast is quake prone. The great earthquake Aug. 31, 1886, was one of the largest on record. In fact the Charleston, South Carolina, USA sits on a fault. Charleston is also home to one of many Richter Scales located in the USA.

The East Coast also has a fault line here in the U.S. I felt it here at the office.

You have all educated me and mine. Over here we always hear about the big fault line in California, running through San Franciso and how the 'big one' is due to happen at any time, but not about the east coast.
Glad to hear your are all okay, scary though!!!
Sue (rummage)

Take care....this is 1st we heard of the quake.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsanim/

Hit START ANIMATION at the iop of the map - quite interesting/

Yes, it happened in Mineral VA. This is crazy an earthquake and threats of a hurricane in one week.

Glad no one was hurt/

There may be fault lines on the east coast but they are relatively inactive. If you go to www.usgs.gov there are real time maps that show EQ activity. And they have a special page devoted only to California and Nevada because it is much more active there. So really you were not mistaken at all. East coast does NOT experience much EQ activity at all and what we do experience is very small and almost imperceptable to humans.

It was so weird about 2:00 my office mate said, "do you feel that?"

Felt like a large truck had driven by and then the whole bulding was shaking. We have fire drills and tornado drills but never had an earthquake drill.

So we're standing around going, "was that an earthquake? What do we do?" Finally our evacuation coordinators said, "everyone outside, we'll figure it out outside." Car alarms were going off all over the place. But fortunately no damage.

They had to decide weather to let people back into the buildings or close campus. After 40 minutes of all of us sitting outside on a nice summer day, with shade trees and a nice breeze the campus police came around with the bull horn dismissing us.

We had a smaller one last year but I slept through it, so I'm excited to say I've felt my first earth quake. And since there was no damage or injuries, I don't feel guilty for being excited about it.

The east coast is not known for noticable earth quake activity, but as someone pointed out there have been a few, they are talking about it on the news now.

It's weird how the one in New Zealand was a 6 and it caused so much more damage then this one...any geologist on the list who can explain? I know it's log scale so it's a big difference between 5.8 and 6..but that's about all I know and don't really understand it.

Felt it here in Johnstown, PA......weird is all I can say it felt weird. We have had tornado's, micro burst, & flooding from bad storms, but havn't felt a quake like that atleast in my lifetime. They said the last quake that large was 100 yrs ago. There is a report on CNN now reported that so far the only aftershocks are being reported by ppl in the Mineral, VA and nearby areas, DC which is 80 miles away have not felt any aftershocks. PPl in GA - Toronto & Ontario felt the quake. It defianately was weird & my house was not built to with stand earthquakes like most on the east coast. It's a rarity here!

I'm approx 50 miles West of where it hit, no aftershocks here.

The entire country should be getting some one time or another. Be safe.

Don't forget the eq in Colorado yesterday...

Thank you. I monitor weather.gov but I didn't know about this site.

Glad everyone is o.k. and no damage reported so far.

Earthquakes are scarey! You have no time to prepare for them.

apparently earthquakes can happen anywhere...."...and earthquakes in divers places"....

we've even had them down here in the Gulf Coast...

We also have earthquake insurance on our home, the addition to the premium is not that much, the deductible is sky high but it beats having your home crumble and no insurance to rebuild..

Check today's Huffington Post, online newspaper for a beautiful map of earthquake hazard zones in the USA.

I was sitting on one end of the couch working on my laptop and hubby was on the other end reading. I felt the shaking and thought he was shaking the couch. I turned to give him a dirty look and he was looking at me with a questionable look on his face. Then we figured it must be an earthquake. Wierd.

Said to be the most powerful earthquake to hit the Eastern US in recorded history. Look this up and read it, interesting and frightening!!!
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Looks like Charleston is due for a hurricane this week. Pretty lively in Charleston this week! LOL

East coast has had their share of earthquakes, just not felt as much or in as wide an area. Scientists say the rock base on the East Coast is denser than the West Coast so the shock waves travel farther.
There are rifts all over the US (and probably every other place on this planet) and events probably occur more frequently in some areas - Pacific Ring of Fire for example.

About the only warning one has would be the behavior of animals.......they sense the electromagnetic changes.

Well glad you're okay down there in southern Ohio!