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Originally Posted by GTTPF
There was just an 5.9 earthquake in Va. Our house in Central NJ shook for about a minute. The east coast has earthquakes all the time but it was the first time we ever felt one. Wierd feeling!
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Our cousin in Bergen County New Jersey was at her desk at the college when the entire desk and floor began to shake, which freaked her out. She wondered if we had felt anything in Vermont.
We did not, although others in town heard their pots and pans clanking together & various other reported events. Nearby Albany New York evacuated office buildings due to the shaking. It was front page news in Vermont today.
Our neice in Raleigh North Carolina was in the swimming pool with her two little ones and felt nothing at all. Earlier this year, they had all taken shelter in their interior bathroom for several hours, with the "grandma" from Bergen County visiting...luckily, they were all spared the Tornado damage that did hit some parts of the city at that time.
Bergen CO. N.J. has had some fierce thunderstorms which caused trees to fall and severely damage homes, fences, patio furniture........not to mention the flooding all over the northeast..........so I don't blame our cousin for freaking out.
In the past, we've only felt one small tremor in our home in Vermont.
Missed this one, although others in town did experience it. I've always been concerned about our family in California plus the fact that our son travels quite often to California on business........but never really worried about the east coast. Watch the movie 2012.