Wow. Earthquake in DC. 3.7 magnitude. Felt the rumble about 15 minutes ago.

[chimpymustgo]

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Minor 3.7 magnitude earthquake shakes Washington DC area residents awake 2 minutes ago via Seesmic

[countingbluecars]

1. It is definitely not something

we are used to here. It really shook the house.

[chimpymustgo]

2. Yeah! First I thought it was a truck rumbling by, then I thought - "This is an earthquake....but...

no. That can't be. Can it?

Then people started calling into the tv news stations, which I was watching.

I'm in NW DC. Where are you?

[countingbluecars]

3. I'm in Purcellville in Loudoun County.

I thought something had exploded nearby and kept expecting to hear sirens!

[DCBob]

6. I have lived here nearly 20 years in DC are and I think this is the first one..

weird.

[Trajan]

4. Wow ... shocking ...

I lived an California, and it would have to exceed 5.0 before I even felt it ...

Nevertheless .... This in DC is a rare event ...

[chimpymustgo]

5. It awakened many in the area. I was already awake, and it was quite a rumble.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Slept through it

The cats woke me up with a landslide, though.

[LargeGreenSpider]

8. In Brunswick, MD ...

It scared the bejeezus out of me here in the Potomac highlands. The rumble was quite intense.

[anarch]

9. slept through it

Probably would have thought it was just a bus driving by or something anyway.

Is it weird that I sort of wish I'd been awake to feel it?

[malaise]

10. Wow

Where's that Zombie Cheney?

[madinmaryland]

11. Slept through it, here.

[HipChick]

12. Didn't feel a thing...

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

13. It woke me up here in Aspen Hill, MD

It rattled the windows and sounded like a low flying 747.

[paparush]

14. That was Cheney's new defibrillator.

Yes, I know, I'm going to hell.

[jpljr77]

15. We felt it pretty good in Silver Spring.

The wife and I were awake because the baby had coincidentally woken up around 4:45. So we felt it and wondered what the hell was going on.

It did not wake up our other daughter, though...but she sleeps like a log.

My boss lives right near the epicenter and he said that it woke his whole family and that it rattled windows and wall hangings, etc.

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