Posted by CapCityAgent on 7/16/10 6:17am
Msg #345173

DC area experience earthquake this morning

I was laying awake in my bed around 5:05 AM and begin to feel the house shake. Being that I grew up in California, the first thing I thought was EARTHQUAKE! Then my second guess was this is DC. DC doesn't have earthquakes. I thought maybe a truck or train since I live about a mile away from the metro train station. Five minutes later the news reports earthquake.

Reply by Ilene C. Seidel on 7/16/10 6:33am
Msg #345174

So I heard I'm in Baltimore. Sounds like it was a big one for this area.

Reply by Cari on 7/16/10 7:29am
Msg #345177

Are earthquakes common in DC? I think I'd freak if we had one here?

Reply by Lee/AR on 7/16/10 7:47am
Msg #345179

IL had a 3.8 on 2/10/10--epicenter 50 miles NW of the Loop n/m

Reply by Cari on 7/16/10 8:02am
Msg #345182

Re: IL had a 3.8 on 2/10/10--epicenter 50 miles NW of the Loop

and I'm less than 20 miles from the Loop, but yet, slept like a baby...I guess quakes can happy anywhere.

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 7/16/10 8:28am
Msg #345183

Re: IL had a 3.8 on 2/10/10--epicenter 50 miles NW of the Loop

3.8 is nothing. When the New Madrid fault in the Midwest wakes up, that area is due for a very major eathquake. It hasn't had a quake for almost 200 years!

Reply by Linda Juenger on 7/16/10 9:32am
Msg #345194

Re: IL had a 3.8 on 2/10/10--epicenter 50 miles NW of the Loop

Here in Southern IL, I have felt 4 pretty strong ones in my lifetime. Got shook out of bed one time, another time things fell off walls and knocked over. Woke me from a dead sleep. Yes, the midwest is in the danger zone.