[Tronz]

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I thought I was going crazy when my pictures were just falling off of my walls and my HDTV was shaking while I was listening to music. The tremors came all the way to upstate NY. Did any of you guys in my region feel the tremors too?

 

[Happy Camper]

Not here. Colorado had a 5.2 quake last night.

 

[2deadeyes]

Just returned from a full building evac here in Jersey City, NJ.

 

[kxx7]

I was smoking a cigarette while it happened. I had no idea what was going on.

 

[buffalowings]

heard about the news in dunkin donuts... apparently it could be felt in new england...didn't feel it though

 

[wje]

I'm about 50 miles from the epicenter, which was north-west of Richmond, VA.  Our building in Fairfax (I was on the 5th floor) and sit near the windows) was shaking like a mother ***.  I headed right for the exit door, the stairwell and proceeded down the steps.  Half-way to the first floor, I felt another bit of tremor effect.  Then, 10 seconds later a big "whoosh" sound that sounded like a big vacuum or vortex - I'm not sure if air was released from the elevator chamber to create that effect or not.  Some of my co-workers were on the elevator come back  up to our floor when it happened.  They were visibly shaking (literally).
 
We spent about 20 minutes outside before being allowed back inside.  I did hear of an office building in the Tysons Corner area that experienced some glass breakage.
 
This is just nuts.

 

[rawrster]

I was in Queens, NY and the building I was working at shook a little bit. I felt the floor wave a bit and then we had a building evacuation for around 20-30 minutes. After that the building was closed for the rest of the day. 

 

[rroseperry]

Wild, I wonder how many right coast building are seismically reinforced? It's law out here, but where earthquakes are generally rare, I'd expect more building leeway.

 

[baka1969]

Had a good shake here in Philly. My cell service won't call out. Wierd thing is my phone's internet works. Land line calls are spotty. I knew it was a quake while it was happening. A bit surreal.

 

[Maverickmonk]

felt it here in Central PA too. I was on the top floor of my house (3rd floor), and i thought we got hit by a crazy strong wind gust, but i couldn't hear wind. Then I realized it was the ground shaking. Pretty nuts, never felt an earthquake before. The funny thing is that there were fb posts up withing 30 seconds of it happening

 

[bozebuttons]

Felt it on Long Island as well,Actually the first time I ever felt one that I realized what it was.The floor was like jello,No damage.

 

[wje]

There's an area awfully close (20 miles) from the epicenter - Lake Anna, where they have a working nuclear reactor.  This makes it sound like we were near a major catastrophe.
 
 
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North Anna Nuclear Generating Station, operated by Dominion Generation in Mineral, VA is located only 20 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake.
According to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission study published in August 2010, the estimated risk each year of an earthquake strong enough to cause core damage to the reactor at North Anna was 1 in 22,727 – the nuclear plant with the estimated 7th highest risk of earthquake-caused damage in the United States.
The Christian Post's calls to the North Anna Nuclear plant have not been answered at the time of press.

 
http://www.christianpost.com/news/virginia-earthquake-epicenter-only-20-miles-from-nuclear-power-plant-54383/

 

[sphinxvc]

It was surreal indeed.  I felt the entire house shaking.  

 

[sphinxvc]

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There's an area awfully close (20 miles) from the epicenter - Lake Anna, where they have a working nuclear reactor.  This makes it sound like we were near a major catastrophe.
 
 

According to the OP's source, two reactors nearby were taken off-line and neither has reported damage.
 

 

[wje]

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According to the OP's source, two reactors nearby were taken off-line and neither has reported damage.
 

Yes, and that was a good thing - apparently, an orderly shut down was successfully achieved.  Ironically, the lake is a large lake and features a lot of homes around it - both year-round and seasonal homes.  It's a large enough lake where people can utilize their speedboats - the lake frontage is 10 miles and the lake itself covers 13,000 acres.