My office building just shook pretty good for about 20 seconds. Everyone felt it.

8/23/2011 1:53:21 PM

Yep here too that was awesome!

8/23/2011 1:54:20 PM

Centennial campus and also North Raleigh....

8/23/2011 1:54:55 PM

wow, i just felt that too

8/23/2011 1:56:22 PM

Here in Hillsborough also. Never felt one before

8/23/2011 1:56:30 PM

My first thought was to jump on TWW on confirm that I wasn't randomly feeling things or it was just my office.

There are about 20 people standing in the office parking lot now, haha

8/23/2011 1:57:03 PM

Building shook in Cary

8/23/2011 1:57:18 PM

Highwoods and Atlantic. People are a little freaked.

8/23/2011 1:57:32 PM

Are yall fucking kidding? I came here to post this.

We felt it on the Outer Banks. Manteo, KDH, & Kitty Hawk confirmed.

8/23/2011 1:59:48 PM

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00lqe6x3.php

Felt it in GSO, people from our Richmond office said it lasted 40 seconds or so.

8/23/2011 2:00:25 PM

http://www.cnn.com/

Quote :

"Magnitude 5.8 earthquake shakes Virginia, D.C. and New York "

8/23/2011 2:00:27 PM

Felt it here off of 401 between Garner and Fuquay

8/23/2011 2:01:50 PM

Yeah we didn't feel it (Cary)

I feel like I missed out

8/23/2011 2:02:12 PM

Cary felt it. You must have been doing jumping jacks or something.

8/23/2011 2:03:47 PM

At first I thought I just had a neighbor who was just having some wild sex.

Wow, that's pretty insane to have felt it.

8/23/2011 2:04:01 PM

I guess our building is solid.

Then again our power goes out for no reason

8/23/2011 2:04:59 PM

^^ Thats exactly what my brother thought

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8/23/2011 2:05:02 PM

Yeah, the whole RBC building on the Betline vibrated for a few seconds. It was slightly unnerving.

8/23/2011 2:10:33 PM

my mom just emailed me from work in durham. she felt it too

her email:

subject: we just had an earth quake

body: No shit the floor was swaying. Lasted only a few seconds but it was felt from NY to NC


i was just on the phone with her. would have been trippy if i was still on the line when it happened

8/23/2011 2:13:50 PM

Haha yea RT I felt it over here in Carrboro. Sitting in the apartment complex and thought a neighbor was jumping around.

8/23/2011 2:14:49 PM

8/23/2011 2:16:21 PM

ya'll are quick too. i was all excited to make a thread ab it from another state lol

tww action news though for real. if i ever hear ab stuff going on back home i check here first for the scoop. sometimes i tell my family ab stuff they havent heard ab yet

8/23/2011 2:17:01 PM

My sister in Charlotte felt it as well.

I walked out of my office when my monitor started jumping, and only one other person noticed it.

but our building is always shaking a little bit... just not for as long as this went.

8/23/2011 2:17:11 PM

Quote :

"but our building is always shaking a little bit..."

Is your building a gateway to hell for Chambers or something? heheh

8/23/2011 2:19:36 PM

really? We didn't feel anything here in Apex. Oh well

8/23/2011 2:19:58 PM

No shit, that's what that was?

I live in New Bern, and my house didn't exactly shake where you could noticeably feel it, but I heard a bunch of creaking and noises like you'd hear in a really gusty windstorm. I looked outside to see if it'd gotten really windy, and thought...hmm, doesn't look like nearly enough to shake my house.

8/23/2011 2:20:59 PM

Quote :

"Is your building a gateway to hell for Chambers or something? heheh"

haha, shoddy construction-- a testament to our "frugality"

8/23/2011 2:24:32 PM

I'm in Charleston and didn't feel a thing. There have been bad earthquakes here historically so hopefully there's none to come!!

8/23/2011 2:24:51 PM

I didn't feel anything on MLK.

8/23/2011 2:25:30 PM

felt it in fayetteville. just talked to my dad in richmond who said my brother was sleeping and some books fell on him.

8/23/2011 2:30:32 PM

felt it at wade and blue ridge.

8/23/2011 2:31:01 PM

I was in a 4 ft trench. Glad it didn't cave in

8/23/2011 2:32:36 PM

felt it just north of Florence, SC. just barely though

8/23/2011 2:34:21 PM

Meanwhile the entire West coast is laughing at us.

8/23/2011 2:37:35 PM

So, reading some blog, and apparently they said the east coast crust isnt the double bagger the west coast is, and since the crust isnt busted, it transmits shockwaves really well.

8/23/2011 2:38:22 PM

I had flashbacks of living on the 8th floor of sullivan hall when a train was going by

8/23/2011 2:42:44 PM

largest in VA since 1897.

8/23/2011 2:43:54 PM

^Just talked to one of my Rock friends and he says that it was really close to the surface and is another reason why we felt it so much...there was no padding to collect the vibration compared to if it was say 10 miles deep instead of the 3 that it was.

pair that with a pretty in tact fault line and it was felt a long ways.

still cool.

8/23/2011 2:46:46 PM

Quote :

"I had flashbacks of living on the 8th floor of sullivan hall when a train was going by "

ah...good times Mike

Felt it in Rocky Mount for 5 or so seconds. On the second floor so you could feel it more. Confirmed shaking felt in Fort Mill, South Carolina, as well.

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8/23/2011 2:52:49 PM

I may be the only person at my workplace who didn't feel it. Everyone else was talking about it and I was rather surprised.

8/23/2011 2:53:56 PM

EARTHQUAKE! EARTHQUAKE! I'M UNSTOPPABLE!



JUGGERNAUT SMASH!

8/23/2011 3:04:56 PM

Easily felt in DC. First thought it was a scaffolding accident, then a bomb, then finally an earthquake. No apparent damage: just lost productivity as office workers used it as an excuse to go home.

8/23/2011 3:20:49 PM

Nope- didn't feel it in Durham. Was outside walking the dog when it happened. Feel like I got cheated out of an experience.

8/23/2011 4:14:52 PM

Didn't feel it here in California

Hope y'all had fun

8/23/2011 5:33:31 PM

Didn't feel it in Durham. Didn't learn until about 5 minutes ago that one had even happened.

8/23/2011 6:03:23 PM

A lot of my friends & co-workers felt it here in NYC, but I was outside and didn't feel shit.

[Edited on August 23, 2011 at 7:08 PM. Reason : []

8/23/2011 7:06:05 PM

I felt it in South Durham. I was on the phone wit my dad at the time and we were both like "uhhhh what's going on?"

8/23/2011 7:13:41 PM

I'm waiting to hear someone on the news say "at first I thought a bomb had gone off"

Like we all know exactly what a bomb going off feels like

Just wait, its inevitable - all instability these days is immediately associated with "a bomb going off"

8/23/2011 7:18:24 PM

Felt it here in Hickory and thought I was losing my mind. Strangely, the guys in my office all felt it and stood up to look in each others' office but none of the women felt it.

8/23/2011 7:22:58 PM

Felt it in NOVA.

I thought at first someone was shaking on of the walls of my cubical and I turned around to see who was there. Once in awhile some douche does that.

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8/23/2011 10:27:51 PM