As Instapundit notes, “A magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Virginia:”
UPDATE: Readers felt it as far away as Baltimore, Delaware, and Lehigh, Pennsylvania.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Hard to believe, but reader Eric Halpern says he felt it in Hartford: “My vertical blinds were rocking back and forth, and we all came out of our offices to ask, ‘Did you feel that?’”
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My mom in South Jersey just called to tell me she and her neighbors felt the quake as well. She described it as feeling the floor was about to cave in, and then turned on the TV to see shots of office workers leaving their swaying skyscrapers in Philadelphia and NYC on the TV news. That jibes with what Tina Korbe at Hot Air writes: “Numerous bystanders and longtime residents evacuated from buildings in New York said they hadn’t felt shaking like this since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The same thought echoed in the corridors of the Pentagon, too.”
Bryan Preston has continuous updates and links at the Tatler.
Update: But of course: “Obama Golfing in Martha’s Vineyard When Earthquake Hit.”
Drudge is wondering if more smiting is soon to come: “As Hurricane Irene barrels north towards the Florida coast, it is looking more and more likely the storm will make a big splash on the D.C. region this weekend.”
I think you can believe Eric Halpern in Hartford– I felt it on the CT shoreline. It was strong enough to shake the walls, scare the cat who was sleeping on my bed (cat promptly hid in the closet), and knock some small items off the top of my bookshelf.
Now, that’s what I call an omen.
One of the DC area’s LESSER faults…
It’s quite easy to believe Mr. Halpern in Hartford; we felt tremors in Boston.
Not to worry…
The MEEEEEEsiah can dispel an earthquake with a mere wave of his mighty putter…
Proposed DRUDGE juxaposition of the day.
Congresswoman blames black unemployment on ‘racism’…
‘The real enemy is the Tea Party’…
2 of 3 Dem lawmakers skip town hall meetings…
Interstate ramp closed, HAZMAT called over cannisters of bull semen…
Felt it on the East End of Long Island, too. Krauthammer wrote something recently wondering whether it was frogs or locusts coming next. Perhaps the Potomac turning red. After all, more than half of Washington already is.
We had a very mild tremor here in Princeton, barely enough for the dining room chandelier to swing a little.
It wasn’t a huge deal but the quake may have damaged the Washington Monument. But Obama was planning to knock it down anyway.
We certainly felt the quake and the aftermath overwhelmed local cell service for about 30 minutes. But otherwise, unremarkable.
I think they shut down North Anna Nuclear Power Plant which sits atop a fault that is probably related to the one that slipped today.
Is it me, or do nuclear power plants create faults wherever they are built?