Here's something DU CAN do. If you felt it, check in with your location and any damage

[Stinky The Clown]

Howard County Maryland.

No damage.

[aquart]

1. Manhattan. Lotta shaking but no damage.

I have unanchored 12 ft bookshelves. Damage could have been nasty. But nada.

[Luminous Animal]

2. Especially, check your gas lines.

[csziggy]

3. AND report that info to the USGS

Did You Feel It?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/c0005ild/us/form.en.disabled.html

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Good link! Thanks for posting it

[hedgehog]

4. USGS will have a site posted soon asking for info :

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/32.42.-85.-75.php

Look for the "did you feel it" link at bottom.

[Purveyor]

5. Jackson, Michigan. Very slight rolling motion. Would have dismissed it as

a dizzy spell if the reports hadn't start rolling in.

Neighbor called and felt the same thing.

[abelenkpe]

6. East coasters

Please turn off your gas until it can be inspected. Might take a while but worth the trouble. Stay safe. xxoo -west coast

[haele]

7. Check your gas first - any leaks, turn it off and call the local utilities.

Then do a walk-about your structure - look for shifts in foundation block, popped bricks, cracks in the slab, or bowing in the walls and ceiling. Look at your porch rooflines, make sure they still look square, no new "sag" or lean to one side. Try opening and closing all your doors and windows to make sure they're still square.
A crack on your interior plaster or stucco isn't something to worry about. But if it looks like a brick or window sill is starting to sag on one side, there could be structural damage.

Haele

[Lyric]

9. Monongalia County, West Virginia. No serious damage.

I think there might be a few hairline cracks in the walls and/or roof, but this is a 100+ year old brick house, so that's not a shock. Nothing fell, and nothing in the house was broken.

[susanna]

10. Detroit. Same as Jackson, Michigan's report earlier...

Just a slow rolling motion. Thought I was having a dizzy spell, then put my hands on the table. Nope. The earth was definitely moving. No damage.

[madinmaryland]

11. None that I no of. My daughter mentioned a couple of things may have fallen off of a bookcase.

The only real damage was to the one cat who got freaked out. The others slept through it!!

Howard County, also.

ETA: Cell phone service is down in our area.

[ladyVet]

14. My cat was sleeping on the front porch.

Judging by his uninterrupted sleep, nothing unusual happened.

But I realized a few minutes ago that the pull chain on my ceiling fan had been swaying violently back and forth for two days -- driving me crazy trying to figure out how to stop it -- and now, nothing. Weird.

[ladyVet]

12. Alamance County, NC here

About 15 miles northeast of Burlington, out in the country. Could feel it pretty good, made my single-wide shimmy for a couple of minutes. So far as I can tell, no damage, nothing even fell off the walls or off of furniture.

Damn! Now I've lived through a tornado, hurricane and an earthquake. I just hope Irene goes out to sea.

[SCantiGOP]

13. Columbia SC

Everybody in my office on the 17th floor felt it. Chair was bumping up and down and bit and a bit of movement on the leaves of large fern in the corner of my office. Third or fourth worst earthquake fault in US is near Charleston, so that's where I assumed it had come from, not Virginia.

[Scout]

15. Washtenaw County, Michigan. No damage that i am aware of. n/t

[Peacetrain]

16. Well my son who is a DUer in Baltimore..

Got a good shaking in the office.. out into the hallway for a couple more hiccups and it was over.. just talked to him on the phone.. he did not realize it was a broad as it is though..

[Stinky The Clown]

17. Reports from DC of minor building damage in a number of locations around town.

National Cathedral, for one.

[Stinky The Clown]

18. AMTRAK stopped trains then started them at greatly reduced speed

Some talk of not allowing them into DC's Union Station for a while.

[TBF]

19. Nope - used to live in that area but not anymore.

I've been thinking of DUer David Swanson though - Charlottesville is mighty close to Louisa, VA.

[Modern_Matthew]

20. Johnson County, Kentucky. No damage. nt