i certainly felt it in NJ. the whole house rocked back and forth, it was freaky.

i keep hearing that everybodys all "OMG scariest moment of my life!"

it wasnt scary at all. maybe a little creepy because its not something ive ever really experienced but... i thought it was awesome :]

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Oh God. People are starting to go overboard!

seriously??

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Lol! This stuff doesn't stop! And the list is much longer than this.

http://dc.metromix.com/ev...18/content

Washington D.C. Earthquake Specials and Events - UPDATED

Still shaking? Calm your nerves with great deals at over 25 area restaurants and bars

By Jason Adams

Metromix
August 23, 2011

You survived the Great Quake of 2011! (Aftershocks pending.) Now you have two choices: you can celebrate your temporary feeling of invincibility OR you can drink away the impending apocalypse. Whichever you choose, there's plenty of restaurants, bars and clubs in the D.C. area that are having special deals of great magnitude.

Check back often as we update this guide as more deals and events come in! (Email dc@metromix.com if you know of one we missed.)

Bayou

2519 Pennsylvania Ave NW - Washington

202-223-6941

Use the password “Gimmie the Shakes, Slacks” and get free Earthquake Survivor shots all night at the New Orleans eatery's upstairs bar.

Hill Country Barbecue Market

410 7th Street NW - Washington

(202) 556-2050

Get $5 Rockin’ Earthquake drinks all night at this Penn Quarter BBQ joint.

The Diner

2453 18th St. N.W. - Washington

202-232-8800

The Adams Morgan staple will have a Shakedown Special all night with $6 adult shakes.

DC9 Nightclub

1940 9th St. N.W. - Washington

202-483-5000

DC9 will have a MIXQUAKE Dance Party tonight on the roof, with DJ Matt Bailor keeping things shakin'. Free admission, 21+.

Tallula / Eat Bar

2761 Washington Blvd. - Arlington

703-778-5051

5.9 Earthquake = $5.90 drafts from 7 p.m.-close (and $4.50 drafts until then!).

The Ugly Mug

723 Eighth St.S.E. - Washington

202-547-8459

$5 Earthquake shooters all night.

The Cajun Experience

1825 18th Street NW - Washington

(202) 670-4416

Get a taste of southern Louisiana with $5 "aftershots" all night!

Barcode

1101 17th St. N.W. - Washington

202-955-9001

Half off all bottles of wine on Tuesday night.

Mie N Yu

3125 M St. N.W. - Washington

202-333-6122

Tell the bartender you want your cocktail "shaken" and get it 20% off!

Elevation Burger

442 S. Washington St. - Falls Church

703-237-4343

“Shake It Off with a Shake” at the Falls Church, Park Potomac and Germantown Elevation Burgers, with half-priced milkshakes for the rest of the day.

H Street Country Club

1335 H St. N.E. - Washington

202-399-4722

Get happy hour specials all night (plus putt putt!) at this H Street bar.

Casa Oaxaca

2106 18th St. N.W. - Washington

202-387-2272

Avoid the traffic in Adams Morgan with half price appetizers at this Mexican restaurant.

Pound Coffee

1300 2nd Street NE - Washington

202-408-5282

Need a quick pick-me-up? Mention the quake at this Capitol Hill coffee shop and get any frap or smoothies 50% off until 5 p.m..

PS7's

777 I St. N.W. - Washington

202-742-8550

Get a $10 “Great Shakes” cocktail with Bulleit Bourbon and Cynar avocado liqueur, SHAKEN with chocolate basil leaves.

Chef Geoffs

3201 New Mexico Ave. N.W. - Washington

202-237-7800

Chef Geoffs will have happy hour specials all night long for the quake!

omg, that's funny...

Ah ah This made me laugh, but it's so true! Same thing here in Cambridge, MA, some sidewalks look like they have been bombed/shelled, and my seat at my desk shakes under me whenever a heavy van passes by my street!

paintedlady said:

Crap. Boston's on a damn faultline.

I felt nada, but the street in my neighborhood are hollow and things rumble when heavy trucks or transit buses drive by two blocks away.

There are 3 sink holes that are growing also.... they are small but I thought it was from all the rain and snow.

lol people are making such a huge deal over this.

just because it happens so rarely (here) does not mean its something to freak over. everybodys acting like theres never been an earthquake this strong anywhere in the world before someone calls this 6.0 earthquake "the great quake of 2011" lol but not the 9.0 in japan, like not even 6 months ago. no. lol

[Edited 8/23/11 15:51pm]

Flo6 said:

Ah ah This made me laugh, but it's so true! Same thing here in Cambridge, MA, some sidewalks look like they have been bombed/shelled, and my seat at my desk shakes under me whenever a heavy van passes by my street!

paintedlady said:

Crap. Boston's on a damn faultline.

I felt nada, but the street in my neighborhood are hollow and things rumble when heavy trucks or transit buses drive by two blocks away.

There are 3 sink holes that are growing also.... they are small but I thought it was from all the rain and snow.

Cambridge is like that too Central Square and the surrounding areas especially when the trains rumble in... you can feel them under your feet on the sidewalks.

dyvrdown said:

lol people are making such a huge deal over this.

just because it happens so rarely (here) does not mean its something to freak over. everybodys acting like theres never been an earthquake this strong anywhere in the world before someone calls this 6.0 earthquake "the great quake of 2011" lol but not the 9.0 in japan, like not even 6 months ago. no. lol

[Edited 8/23/11 15:51pm]

I was being sarcastic while also joking about the inevitable "That's nothing!" comments you'll likely see not just here, but anywhere the story is posted, presumably by those that have lived on the West Coast. For example the comments at CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2011/U...nia.quake/

Somehow I doubt an F1 tornado hitting Hollywood is met with a bunch of Californians going "Oh well you know what...this ain't shit compared to what the Midwest gets."

I can't wait until they start blaming it on us gays.

@ a lot of the silliness in this thread. Glad everybody is all right, but daaaaamn! Don't move to the West Coast.

Apparently the quake could be felt as far north as Montreal. I felt nothing here in Toronto, but my wife says she felt it.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I can't wait until they start blaming it on us gays.

how on earth would they be able to do that? lol

Lammastide said:

Apparently the quake could be felt as far north as Montreal. I felt nothing here in Toronto, but my wife says she felt it.

from what i heard it was just up to about massachusetts

Flo6 said:

Ah ah This made me laugh, but it's so true! Same thing here in Cambridge, MA, some sidewalks look like they have been bombed/shelled, and my seat at my desk shakes under me whenever a heavy van passes by my street!

paintedlady said:

Crap. Boston's on a damn faultline.

I felt nada, but the street in my neighborhood are hollow and things rumble when heavy trucks or transit buses drive by two blocks away.

There are 3 sink holes that are growing also.... they are small but I thought it was from all the rain and snow.

Flo! Haven't seen you around in a while.......you moved?

dyvrdown said:

Lammastide said:

Apparently the quake could be felt as far north as Montreal. I felt nothing here in Toronto, but my wife says she felt it.

from what i heard it was just up to about massachusetts

Check this out...

http://www.globalnews.ca/...story.html

[Edited 8/23/11 17:36pm]

I'm in the Dirty-South....I didnt feel a thing at my Crib this morning...I'm about 20-min from the Capitol and Government employees claim they felt the "shakes & bakes" and all the "tremors"....Blah,blah,blah....

They just wanted to go home early so they could sleep with somebody's Husband or Wife...Anything for an excuse...

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Okay, who felt that shit about 10 minutes ago???!!

They're saying it was a 5.8 with the epicenter in VA, but I first thought it was a big ass truck passing by outside! Stuff was shakin' everywhere! I loved it!!!!

GOOD! Bout time ya'll easterners felt the thunda from down unda

HotGritz said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Okay, who felt that shit about 10 minutes ago???!!

They're saying it was a 5.8 with the epicenter in VA, but I first thought it was a big ass truck passing by outside! Stuff was shakin' everywhere! I loved it!!!!

GOOD! Bout time ya'll easterners felt the thunda from down unda

Dang, it's like THAT, HG??

JustErin said:

Lol!! I saw this earlier. This picture was actually posted last July elsewhere when there was a small ass tremor over here at the time. Still stupid and funny.

alexnvrmnd777 said:

HotGritz said:

GOOD! Bout time ya'll easterners felt the thunda from down unda

Dang, it's like THAT, HG??

Its only fair.

Lammastide said:

dyvrdown said:

from what i heard it was just up to about massachusetts

Check this out...

http://www.globalnews.ca/...story.html

[Edited 8/23/11 17:36pm]

wow, amazing

‎"The root cause of the earthquakes rocking the U.S. today has been identified as a huge fault line, 6 feet below the surface, caused by our Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves because of what the Tea Partiers are doing to our country."

- the Christian Left

...

I live in Fredericksburg, VA, about 15 minutes from the epicenter. My wife and I were in Target when it hit...that was weird!!! The floor started shaking, and crap started falling off of all the

shelves==everybody ran from the aisles to the open parts of the store--then it stopped, and everybody was standing still, staring at the ceiling, like, "WTF was that!!!???!!!!"

...

[Edited 8/23/11 19:52pm]

Machaela said:

‎"The root cause of the earthquakes rocking the U.S. today has been identified as a huge fault line, 6 feet below the surface, caused by our Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves because of what the Tea Partiers are doing to our country."

- the Christian Left

HotGritz said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Dang, it's like THAT, HG??

Its only fair.

When you guys get a hurricane.... it'll be YOUR fault!

Machaela said:

‎"The root cause of the earthquakes rocking the U.S. today has been identified as a huge fault line, 6 feet below the surface, caused by our Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves because of what the Tea Partiers are doing to our country."

- the Christian Left

Did anybody feel any aftershocks last night? I felt 2 of 'em. Mother Nature is such a BEAST!!

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Okay, who felt that shit about 10 minutes ago???!!

They're saying it was a 5.8 with the epicenter in VA, but I first thought it was a big ass truck passing by outside! Stuff was shakin' everywhere! I loved it!!!!

I did too, but then why would a big truck shake the 9th floor of a building that has 24 floors?? Then the building started swaying back and forth....scared the bejesus out of me. The people in my department panicked and ran and I mean RAN for the stairwell to get out of the building yelling "GET OUTTTT GET OUUTTTTTT!!!!" Me? I was in denial..."no way that was an earthquake, we're in Richmond, VA for goodness sakes..nothing really happens here but hurricanes and ice storms"....well I stand corrected, it was. The best part was that they let us go home for the rest of the day.

I did feel one aftershock about 8pm at home and again was in denial..."was it that again? " Looked on the news and I had mud on my face again. It's definitely the signs of the times.

[Edited 8/24/11 4:46am]

Machaela said:

‎"The root cause of the earthquakes rocking the U.S. today has been identified as a huge fault line, 6 feet below the surface, caused by our Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves because of what the Tea Partiers are doing to our country."

- the Christian Left

I was out-&-about w/ the kids and felt NOTHING.

i doubt the people of japan find any of the recent quake humor amusing.....