Earthquake in VA 5.8

[Soulmagent]

It was an after shock I felt as I was posting last nite. 3.2 hit at 12.45 am.

 

[ScorpRising]

ok.......i get that certain talking heads did make this sound like another 9/11 and i understand the irritation with that.

BUT.....and i know i sound like a total wuss here.....this experience has me so unnerved. i was sitting in my house when it happened. apparently i am about 140 miles from the epicenter. honestly, my initial feeling was that i was having some sort of medical emergency. dizzy, nauseous....and immediately anxious. then i saw my VERY heavy floor lamp (it's an arc lamp, truly heavy as lead) wobbling around as if a feather in the wind. the pictures on the walls started waving. a bookshelf looked like it was about to snap in half from bumping against the wall behind it. i looked out the back porch and everything was rocking. my son came running down the stairs and fortunately, he wasn't nearly as nervous as i was. even now, i do not feel right. i can't describe it exactly. it's like i feel on the verge of a dizzy spell.

we have had a wildfire going on for weeks on end, still uncontained....and irene is heading right smack at us. i am the sole parent of four, three still live at home, although one of those is older and always gone. one of the biggest fears i have in life is that something might happen from which i cannot protect my children. today magnified that fear.....which probably explains why i still feel "off."

anyhow, sorry for the ramble and i do know for that those not affected the more dramatic of the broadcasts is probably irritating.

I'm still not feeling right and extremely anxious. I'm in PA and it's bothered me THAT much. I posted on the other eq thread that I never want to feel another one... I'd rather hurricane, tornado, flooding or feet of snow. It really unnerved me and I'm just waiting and dreading another.

 

[athy]

my oldest daughter is a truck driver and was out west driving with her hubby when she heard about the earthquake. she was freaking out and trying to contact her kids. after a while she finally got through to the oldest one. as she's talking to him on the phone she's hearing sirens in the background. he's telling her yeah mom, houses are falling, fire's everywhere! people hurt and running around. (he is such a $@#$!) scaring her lol took her a few minutes to realize he was just teasing her. but knowing my daughter...i don't want to be him.....we all know what they say about paybacks. lol

 

[rossva]

I am in Florida now, but my house in VA is in Louisa County, halfway between Mineral and Louisa, less than a few miles from the epicenter. I have that house rented out, but have not heard about any damage from my tenants. I was there on May 5, 2003, when a 3.9 earthquake rattled homes all around Central Virginia. There are a few rock quarries in the area, and when that one hit, at first, I thought it was just a caravan of trucks full of rocks. It lasted about 45 seconds, and I realized it wasn't trucks. The North Anna Power Station, with a couple of nuclear reactors is less than five miles from my house as the crow flies. Seven months later, a 4.5 earthquake struck in Central Virginia again.

 

[Camille]

I'm just north of Charlotte, NC and I felt it. My house is a two story Granite Structure that was built in 1910 and the whole thing moved like a very strong gust of wind hit it a couple of times. It was a very eerie feeling.

 

[Soulmagent]

Daughters facebook post... Something interesting happens in fredericksburg!

That was yesterday.

Today I either am nuts or the tree roots arround my trees seems to have risen slighty out of the ground ,along with other weird random objects that have either been there the whole time and went unseen ,or were buried and were pushed up??

Has anyone noticed this ? TIA ,I am a new girl to the earth quake thing.

I will list my found objects later.

 

[21merc7]

There was another 4.5 aftershock reported in VA little after 1 a.m., that makes 5 after shocks, and to expect aftershocks for the next few weeks.

Soulmagent;

Your tree could be uprooting from the earthquake or from a number of other natural causes, too much water, too little water, heavy winds, etc. I hope you are not in the hurricane zone, if so, don't park near the tree. I would keep an eye on it for a few months, maybe even pack some soil around the roots to try to keep it from falling (which may not work), or just have it removed.

I would love to see the list of objects that came up.

ETA: Oh heck, after more coffee, I would say the earthquake is uprooting any trees. Don't park near any of them and I do hope they are well away from the house. I would try to get someone with some tree experience to look at them asap.

 

[blue_the_puppy]

There was another 4.5 aftershock reported in VA little after 1 a.m., that makes 5 after shocks, and to expect aftershocks for the next few weeks.

i felt that one. i was trying to go to sleep, and i thought my cat had jumped up on my bed - but then my bed didnt stop moving. it was a bit unnerving, so i went on one of the seismic activity websites to confirm that it was indeed an aftershock.