Scrappy, I'm in DC and everything seems to be fine. I didn't leave the first time - a bunch of people came back up and then went back down - and haven't felt an aftershock.
No one's calls are going through - everyone's calling family and friends at once.
good lord people!!!
Allyson, did you email your story to consumerist?
Stay safe east coasters! I don't think I've felt one that big since moving out to SF.
Aren't you supposed to stand underneath doorways, or something?
In doorways or under heavy, stable furniture.
IOscaryN, sitting in a room full of cops talking about tactical communication is really making me rethink my contrarian ways.
LA buildings are a lot more earthquake-proof. The last I heard, the only building built to significant seismic standards in Georgia was Vogtle nuclear plant.
Allyson, Twitter won't let me tweet your link - but I did repost on lj.
No one's calls are going through - everyone's calling family and friends at once.
Text are at least a little--I've gotten a text from my BFF, and sent one to her
People felt it here, too. We didn't, in my office, but the news is reporting dozens of calls about it.
My neighbor kindly informed me our houses are still standing.
Frank, we were probably most likely to feel it because my actual office area is on a beam that bridges two buildings across a street. A coworker said, "Am I drunk?? Or did the building just move???" Hee.