Who felt the earthquake in DC?

i live in Richmond, Va and work about 30 miles from the epic center which was in Mineral, VA. Felt it big time.

 

according to my facebook alot of people in WV felt it.

 

i felt it in harrisonburg virginia and my friends in northern maryland and philadelphia felt it! what a great way to start freshman year at college right?! haha

the thing im thinking is if it did any damage to the nuclear power plant at lake anna because i believe the epicenter was within a few miles of it.

 

was lifting weights in petersburg va when the weights on the rack started to rattle and the building started to sway. sketchy feeling at first.

 

Does this mean you guys dont have that many earthquakes?

We get em all the time in here...

 

virginia dosnt get them often. this is the biggest we have had in 142 years

 

That's because you are on a hot spot, and all the lava moves the rocks around as it's making its way out of the volcano

Very different from what happened in VA.

 

Just bugging you mainland people

 

Got it here in Barnwell

 

i swear i felt something here in SC

 

i believe VAs earthquake was from shifting tectonic plates.....

 

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Felt it here in Baltimore, in my high rise office building; it swayed pretty good.

 

louisa county sits directly on a fault line

 

Correct but that does not mean it is a plate boundary. A fault is simply a surface where rock on one side is displaced in relation to the other side. The earthquake no doubt occurred on a fault, but I would argue it has nothing to do with global plate tectonics.

 

did your building feel like it was going to crumble .

 

Felt it outside of Bumpass, VA . . . my house is about 5 miles from the epicenter. No damage, didn't have power between 1:50 p.m. and ~5:00 p.m.. Yes, I live in a place called Bumpass

 

Day sleeper here in Columbia SC, It woke me up. Once again, I blamed the dog...

 

I live there!