earthquake

[cellio]

At first I thought the person next to me, whose desk touches mine, was having a really intense hacking session. Then I realized two things: I wasn't hearing the clickety-clack of keys being pounded upon, and my chair was vibrating. And no, not construction downstairs either, as it turned out. Oh, ok.

This is my second remotely-felt earthquake in this modern office building (third floor). This one was more intense than last year's; when I stood up I felt the floor moving and while I could walk without difficulty, it felt weird. I felt movement for a good two minutes. Weird, for a quake a few hundred miles away, but this one was shallow so it traveled farther (link from thnidu).

Did you feel it? If so, tell USGS and help science (link from siderea).

Time by my watch was 1:56PM (at the start), which is five minutes after the reported time at the epicenter. I'm too lazy to do the math to figure out if that's plausible.

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I felt it also, but not for 2 minutes. I would say for me it felt like it lasted about 15 seconds or so, like a weird "jelly" vibration, almost like I had vertigo. I think it happened around 2 pm by my clock.

[cellio]

"Jelly" is a good way of describing it. I assume the differences in how we felt it have to do with building construction. I guess it's good when a building sways, but it was still a little weird.