Weeeeeeeeeeee!

[Flick James]

I grew up in California. I've been through a bunch. Not that it makes them less scary. I was near the epicenter for the 1987 Whittier Narrows quake, which was a big one. I was working graveyard shift at the time and I was on my way home at about 7:15-ish in the am. I had stopped at a red light and had bent down to try and retrieve a cassette tape that had fallen on the floor of my truck when the shaking started. At first I thought somebody had come up my truck ans started pushing up and down on the frame, so I fully expected to have to deal with a different kind of emergency. When I raised up I saw the street signs and posts swaying back and forth, and the storefront windows looked like shimmering water. I was only a little concerned until a few of the windows started shattering, then I got real concerned and started looking for fissures in the ground and visualizing that scene from the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve where Lois Lane's car gets sucked down into a crack in the earth.

 

[AndyC]

My three kids were in the house and came out to tell me the whole thing shook for a bit.  I did not notice anything myself, but looking back it is possible the horse we were working on misbehaved slightly for no apparent reason at the appropriate time.

(We are in Ontario, Canada, just off the northern shore of Lake Erie, roughly an hour from Buffalo NY)

Didn't notice anything here, about four hours further north. Not that I would have noticed. We had a little quake here a couple of years ago, and I didn't even think about it. We have freight trains going by every day that shake the ground almost as much, and there was a fair bit of rock blasting going on. It seemed perfectly normal.

[Raffine]

Folks in the downtown area here reported buildings rockin' and rollin' but I felt nada.

We'll be spending the next couple of days hoping Irene doesn't take a hard left! 

[Cthulhu]

I laughed so hard.

[Allhallowsday]

I was in the car on Route 18 when the earthquake hit, so, I felt nothing.  Tonight, however, I went into the back bedroom which I use like a library and I'm not in there much these days... and pictures from the wall were on the floor!!