Did anyone else in Maryland feel an earthquake?

qanda

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Wed Feb-23-05 10:22 AM
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Did anyone else in Maryland feel an earthquake?

I live in Anne Arundel county and at about 9:25 this morning we heard what sound like a very loud explosion and the earth shook. It was so loud that my husband thought a bomb had gone off. We went outside and a few neighbors were out looking around to see what had happened and we saw nothing. I turned on the tv and there was nothing. But, I just heard that there was an earthquake in our area. Did anyone else feel it?

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LiberalEsto

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Wed Feb-23-05 10:29 AM
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1. Not in Rockville n/t

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On the Road

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Wed Feb-23-05 10:34 AM
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2. Not in Beltsville

but I'll ask my girlfriend. She's in AA county.

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LiberalEsto

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Wed Feb-23-05 12:11 PM
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3. It was just on the noon newscasts

Magnitude 2 earthquake centered in the Chesapeake Bay just northeast of Annapolis. Nobody hurt, no damage reported. They had a similar one a couple of years ago.

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shireen

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Fri Feb-25-05 06:48 PM
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7. under Dundalk

apparently, the epicenter was about 5 miles under Dundalk!

Wow! I kinda wish I had felt/heard it.

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LibertyLover

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Wed Feb-23-05 01:42 PM
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4. Earthquake

Yeah, I just posted something on it myself. My stepdaughter in Dundalk felt it.

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qanda

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Wed Feb-23-05 02:24 PM
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5. Apparently, there were two

One in Anne Arundel County at 9:20 and one in Charles County around 11:00 am.

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Mutley

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Thu Feb-24-05 11:57 AM
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6. i live pretty close to the epicenter...

about 10 mins driving, and i felt nothing. too bad, it would have been interesting.

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kwassa

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Sun Feb-27-05 02:45 PM
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8. No ..... but I lived through many quakes in Los Angeles

It is very easy to miss feeling a quake that is under 4.0. It can be like a truck passing by, something that would make people in LA start looking around.

The two basic types are what I call rumblers, and others that feel like cracking the whip, which is what yours sounds like. I have seen a wave go through a concrete floor on this type.

Quakes over 5.0 are fairly common there, and I was in the 6.4 Northridge earthquake in 1994 that threw me out of bed, and knocked down my local freeway overpass, among much greater devestation.

Now I live in Gaithersburg, too far away from a quake that small to feel it.

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