There was just an earthquake that was felt all over MD/DC/VA. The center was 9 miles from Mineral, VA.

So weird! I've never been in an earthquake before now.

I felt it too! It felt kind of cool here tho... i sleep thru delaware earthquakes usually... they are usually about the feel of a big truck driving by... this one was cool... i wouldn't want to be any closer to the center tho!!

We have had 11 in the last 24 hours in Colorado. The one last night was 5.3.

That earthquake were voters trying to shake up Washington (I hope).

Colorado shaken by its biggest quake in decades
ReutersBy Molly O'Toole | Reuters – 2 hrs 32 mins ago



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 5.3 magnitude earthquake, the biggest in the state in some four decades, shook Colorado late on Monday in an area of the United States where quakes are rare, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday.

The quake struck at 11:46 p.m. Monday night 180 miles south of Denver and 20 miles northwest of Raton, New Mexico, at a depth of 2.5 miles.

Area media reported minor damage to some homes but no injuries or deaths.

"It's a seismically active area so it's not unheard of that you would have an earthquake in this area," USGS National Earthquake Information Center geophysicist Julie Dutton told Reuters Tuesday morning from Golden, Colorado. "But to have a 5.3 anywhere in Colorado, let alone in this area, is rare."

The quake had triggered 1,107 reports from people who felt the shaking as of mid-morning.

The last Colorado quake -- discounting an event linked to an underground nuclear test in 1973 -- to measure at least 5.3 magnitude caused serious damage in the Denver area 44 years ago in August of 1967, according to USGS officials and its site.

Monday's quake is rare in the area of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains known as the "Stable Continental Region."

"Most of the enormous region from the Rockies to the Atlantic can go years without an earthquake large enough to be felt," the USGS wrote in its summary of Monday's seismic activity, "and several U.S. states have never reported a damaging earthquake."

The Monday quake was felt as far north as Fort Collins, Colorado, some 261 miles from the epicenter, according to the USGS "Did You Feel It?" map, a real-time accumulation of data from local shaking and damage reports.

Though earthquakes east of the Rockies are less frequent than in the West, they can be felt over an area as much as 10 times larger than a quake of similar size on the West Coast.

Dutton noted that the earthquake's history within 40 km of the main shock shows that roughly 80 earthquakes of magnitude 2.0 or more have occurred since 2000.

"So it definitely rumbles down there," she said, "But like I said - 5.3 magnitude is the largest in a long time."

(Editing by Jerry Norton)

Let's not turn this into a political discussion.

shook my whole apartment building! not cool after just smoking lol. i've got some friends that are still stationed down in VA (used to be navy) said they felt it too

There is definitely some rumblin going on ...lol Earth shift!!!!

jesus, really?

my friend that is only a few streets over from where im at here in mass said he felt it i didn't feel a thing then again im in the basement below ground level so i probably wouldn't of felt it any ways

It was centered in VA, so of course they felt it.

I will have to tell my ex he missed it he lives in Va but right now he driving to Indiana for buisness lol

let that be a lesson to you jk jk

Mother nature must be trying to tell us something. Fortunately, the summer has been a pleasant one, with temperatures reaching into the low 80s, though the mornings have been a little bit more nippy than I care for.

felt it all the way up here in TORONTO, Montreal , surronding areas as well

gee where u come from didn't feel it here then again being in the basement part of the house doubt i will but i had neighbor an friends say they did

All the earthquakes in San Diego when I lived there and never one big enough to feel!!

I was sitting in my car here in Connecticut when it happened. I could feel the whole car shaking while it was parked. At first I thought it was strange, then I figured the wind must have caught the car just right.

When I went inside, I found out that it was the earthquake instead. People were evacuating buildings in New Haven because of it, including the tennis stadium where the New Haven Open (formerly called the Pilot Pen Open and the Volvo International) is underway.

Maybe it's the Apocalypse. Or Amageddon. Not sure what the difference is but I think they both involve earthquakes.

We felt it here in Detroit too...