My first earthquake experience...

[Steve_OS]

Not gonna lie, scared the **** outta me.

What did I do? I played it cool on the first tremor. Meh, must be a chopper or low flying plane, big *** truck, whatever.

Second tremor about 10 seconds later, literally swayed the entire building, I was looking out the window and saw it bow in and out and said to myself, OH ****. This is an earthquake or Megatron.

Decided the best thing to do, get under my desk and like He-man, pushed my back against the bottom of the desk, to keep the entire BUILDING from crushing me. Yes, I actually thought I was going to support the ENTIRE roof caving in on me, by pushing up on my desk with my back. Genius!

Thank you.

I can laugh about it now, but the news stories of me under a desk, brushing the dust off my shoulders would have made me tear up a little.

I'm in DC, and my office build shook like crazy, I had to hold on to the counter to keep from falling. What was worse was the commute home.

[C the Lyte]

PPl down here are funny. The ground shook, mildly, for about 30 seconds. Now, I know it's a new experience for many of us, but ppl around here were acting like it was a 7.O on the Richter Scale. I know north of the epicenter got it a lot worse than we did south of it. But I thought it was a little ridiculous. This should sum it up perfectly...

http://www.break.com/index/58-magnitude-earthquake-shocks-east-coast-2121265

[xbreezex]

I was at football practice in NY when this happened, we didn't feel a thing lol but some other here did.