BREAKING NEWS: 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake in Virginia

FoxNews is reporting it now. No link yet.

What? I don't believe you.

Check the FoxNews website. It's in the Breaking News banner at the top of the page. I'm watching FoxNews on TV right now.

They felt it in D.C. and FN is reporting that they are evacuating the Capitol building.

Felt from DC to Cleveland to Toronto to New York, if my Twitter feed is any indicator.

Little shake here in Connecticut, only lasted a few seconds. Friends in Virginia said it was house shaking for about 20 seconds. Send those back to the West Coast, plz.

We felt it here in Charlotte.

Felt it here in PA.

What? Dang. Asteroid machine must not be getting enough juice...

Noticable shaking here in NYC --lasted a few seconds, went away, came back.

Have a walkie on scan right now & it's going apeshit.

They've shut down JFK International Airport over it.

Would you like to know where your mom felt it?

So which Bond Villian was behind this and what was he testing?

:sparky:

Wait a sec, epicenter was between Richmond and Charlottsville. Obviously the Army of the Potomac has risen from the grave and is rampaging across Northern Viriginia one last time.

IT'S 2012 EARLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:runforhills:

Or one of Cheney's farts was finally released from the Secret Underground Bunker.

Actually, it's the sound of the Yankee army doing another Great Skedaddle.

EARTHQUAKES IN THE CENTRAL VIRGINIA SEISMIC ZONE

Last big one was in 1875, apparently, and only 4.8.

This one's been upgraded to a 5.9, BTW. Rather substantial.

I think it's God's punishment for all those Yankees moving into Northern Virginia and trying to take down our Confederate flags, monuments, and memorials.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that the epicenter was in Lexington.

Much like the New York Jets(See what I'm about to do here), the AoNV folded likea cheap tent when the chips were on the table.

I bet every fainting goat East of the Mississippi spazzed up and flopped over at the same time.

5.9's a pretty good-sized quake. I imagine this has all those people on the East Coast who aren't used to quakes a little rattled...

I'm still waiting for the New Madrid fault line to activate!!!!

That will be some fun shit!

I felt it strongly here in Northern NJ. My entire building swayed back and forth like a boat in rough seas. The entire office started freaking out and I had to calm them down (since I lived through two huge quakes in CA - '71 Sylmar & '94 Northridge). We're only on the third floor, but it was a good shaker.

I have friends in the DC area who are saying the government employees are being told that more are coming to and seek shelter. I wonder what the government knows that they're not telling us???

IT'S OBAMA'S FAULT!!!!

Are there any missile silos or large munitions stores near the epicenter? Would make an interesting plot line for a thriller.

Or they're just anticipating aftershocks.

Somehow... dynamic inertia is behind this.

I've got Facebook friends in SC reporting they felt it.

Felt nothing in Portadown NI.

That being said though, why would there be earthquakes on the US atlantic coast anyway... there are no plate boundaries within thousands of miles...

A term those on the East Coast will need to learn: aftershocks.