I feel the earth...move...under my feet

[jethrien]

Clearly I have too many family members in Virginia, as my phone's just been ringing off the hook with people checking in...

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[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I feel kind of queasy...

Also--HOLY SHIT!

[maydove.livejournal.com]

Felt it in Boston, but I thought it was my officemate shaking his leg really violently under the desk. Was confused, went back to work.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Queasy? I mean, it felt weird, but it wasn't that bad. But then, I'm in the basement. (I initially thought the construction guys upstairs were screwing us over again. We've had all kinds of horrible loud screeching sounds for two weeks...)

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I was pissed, and a little unnerved. I think I was actually glad to hear it was an earthquake, and not that they'd accidentally collapsed the roof on us or something.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Well, you know me and motion sequence. Also, this building moves often. Queasiness is not an unusual state for me at work. Lack of windows also doesn't help.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

My mum called me to see if I'd heard anything (she's out running around at the moment) because all she'd heard on the radio was "Ramapo fault line" and immediately started worrying about my uncle in Jersey.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

All it felt like in Jersey was a truck rumbling by or a jackhammer next door, but without any sound.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I told mum that's probably all my uncle felt. She feels a little better, I think.

[feiran.livejournal.com]

We got enough of a rumble that I briefly thought the floor I was sitting on was going to collapse. I later decided that since we don't get earthquakes on this coast, it must have been someone moving something big in the next room. Nope!

It felt very different than the earthquake I was in in Japan; that one had a sudden dizzying sensation, not the feeling of going over rumble strips.