Footage From Virginia Earthquake 2011

[@kristenking669]

I was giving birth to my son when it happened. as soon as the ground stopped shaking he was out lol.

[@bd3825]

Mother earth was giving you a hand. LOL

[@bromanbrothe2nd844]

god gave you help i guess xD

[@juliasnyder8321]

Kristen King Oh, lord. That must’ve been a quick birth.

[@hudsonball4702]

What did you name him? any earthquake related joke name?

[@fivesquaredyt2521]

Hungry Mama lies and perfidy

[@RyanKellyWx]

Watching paranormal activity, you better HOPE it's an earthquake!

[@xBloodXGusherx]

haha!

[@davidlafleche1142]

Jesus did say there would be earthquakes in diverse places (Matthew 24:7, KJV). So far, the biggest earthquake known to have struck the east coast was in Charleston, S.C., August 31, 1886. It was estimated at Magnitude 7.3 (there being no Richter Scale back then), which is pretty big. If something like that hit an east coast city today, the death toll would run at least six figures, because we are just not expecting it, nor are we ready for it.

[@freedamerican5243]

I remember this! I got out of my chair to ask my mother a question, then all of a sudden, I heard a jet like roar outside. I looked out the back window and saw a line( the shockwave) zoom at the house, then, the house began to shake. To me, the quake lasted only about 3 seconds. Then I stood still for a legit minute, pale white, and my mom just sitting dazed and confused. I’ll Never forget that!!!

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

What did the shockwave look like?

[@trae701]

@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 it simply looked like a line in the ground coming right at you. That’s really the best way I can put it; I barely registered it because of how fast it happened.

[@bggraham83]

Yeah I thought some fat person was walking in my office

[@bigt2744]

I live in VA. I was sleep when it happen then the house started shaking then i fell on the floor then a picture frame fell on my face.

[@bobby49ist]

i remember this earthquake in 2011 i felt that one all the way here to north carolina and it was strong i was reminded of all the earthquakes in california i went through for many years already

[@UpToSpeedMediaVideos]

I see you are not the only one that caught some real footage of the earthquake. I was home making a video when it hit here. I live about 80 miles away from Richmond VA. That must have been crazy!! Never thought we would have earthquakes on the east coast!

[@stayso4py951]

I was in Stafford

[@puesbien]

Was in downtown RVA during the Mineral quake. Pretty nuts.

[@TheSoftballstar1261]

I was in Falls Church in Fairfax County!

[@AirLanMan]

Nice floors, dude and I like the color scheme on the walls. Dig the couch too.

[@stevepasquarella823]

I remember feeling this in North Carolina. Crazy week! Earthquake and Hurricane Irene in the same week.

[@ryanwall6149]

I actually felt a very very small rocking for like a second in New York

[@HolyinHim]

Today is the 7th anniversary of the quake. I'm a pastor; here was my post on Facebook after feeling the earthquake in Pennsylvania: "I was typing this sentence of my sermon for 9/11 - 'Jesus will build His Church, His Temple of Worship, upon Himself as the Rock. And the Gates of - ' And that was the exact moment the quake hit. Of course, the next word would have been 'Hell.'" Your video was very reminiscent of what I had experienced; thanks for posting it!

[@lgfan2340]

It was my first earthquake too! I was taking a shower when it happened.

[@jewelsplays2686]

I remember every moment of that day (I was in it) It was my first week of kindergarten, I was in library. All the sudden everything started to shake. Picture frames falling, books, the floor shaking. I didn't know what a Earthquake was at the time. I believe everyone got out safely. Since it was unsafe to enter, they had to knock it down with a wrecking ball. It took 3 years to build a new school, but after they finished building it, my parents got a divorce and I moved back to my birthplace, Pennsylvania

[@Silentbutdeadly07]

Yup, I believe you! I live in Md and that's EXACTLY how it was for me in my apt. The amount of time and everything. Its so cool you were taping when it happened.

[@stephanies6740]

Welcome to my world. California born and raised. Now I live in tornado alley

[@raelynne5409]

I was at work when this happened. I honestly though that someone had their bass up too loud and driving by lol. I’m from Manassas and this isn’t the first earthquake I’ve felt and it wasn’t the last. It was only the strongest that has happened. Earthquakes happen regularly in the area but they are so small sometimes you can’t feel them.

[@Megandcas]

I was in a 251 year old house in downtown Fredericksburg and it was off the ground. That was my first earthquake and I hope it's the last. I actually blacked out, i guess because i got so scared.

[@micherrera]

OMG I was in it, too. I was at work and the building was shaking. So Scary! You really stayed calm!

[@michaelrowe8878]

People don't understand how scary this was! We Virginians have NEVER felt something like this! When I felt it, I froze and almost passed out.

[@SuperSpaceGirlHDTV]

it was my first earthquake too, but I was in New Jersey, and it was a shockwave, and it was very small like 3.5.

[@jmo1225]

When this happened we felt in NY too and DC all at the same time. thats crazy

[@Geordo1960]

I was watching TV to when this happened sitting on the couch. When it first started I thought we were having a little tremor. But boy did it get a little bit more intense, finally I got up went outside. Was quite exciting!

[@nsanegamr1]

i know. it felt like one of those things you get real used to after a few more times.

[@ilispace9539]

i used to live in louisa virginia from 2006 to 2015

[@essentialeugene]

Johnny there was a major earthquake in the Bay Area in 1989. It was 6.9 on the Richter Scale. The Bay Bridge collapsed and the Cypress Freeway buckled. 67 died.

[@seekinghimdaily92]

😮 💐

[@Taurus01979]

I'd pulled an all-nighter so was asleep when it happened, but even in northern DE it shook my area hard enough to wake me up. lol East coast quakes travel like heck, it's lucky we don't have them worse or more often.

[@arcangeloiurato]

Felt it in Totowa, NJ, thought it was marching oustide. I was 8

[@ameeromedia5883]

I can't believe this was over 8 years ago! I was in Northern VA in the bathroom trying to get ready for class lol. Never forget that day!!

[@Lydiajean1313]

Wow the noise was intense!! good vid!

[@nymonroenoaa1926]

I was a year old when this quake occourd, but my mom remembers that same day. We lived in Syracuse at the time in upstate NY, so no damage was noted, but it was a few small jolts.

[@ilispace9539]

I was like 6 or 7 when this happened and I lived in mineral it was scary as hell.

[@jcornelius2]

Thanks a lot virigina

[@Jje261YT]

I HAD TO BE IN THE SHOWER IN MY FIRST EARTHQUAKE!

[@bromanbrothe2nd844]

i fell down the stairs going to my moms room, then me getting up to go down the next flight of stairs, the earthquake happened, so i fell down the 2nd flight of stairs and it hurt more, because our house has sharp edges and corners

[@theONLYsloppyJOE]

I remember that too! I was at McDonalds when it happened, I was outside and I got up from my table and looked at the bike rack and the bikes where falling off of it, and a building actually shifted. Traffic was stopping dead silent, no joke. Then I felt like I was falling and everything started shaking. I was wigging and noone else believed me, I ran inside and sure enough, breaking news alert was on all the TVs and it said earthquake clear as day. And I was at the beach & I dipped the fuck out.

[@guzz111111]

My first earthquake too i live in NJ not any other place i was by my pool and i thought i was me but it was from VA the water in my pool started shaking it was crazy i nvr experianced it b4

[@planetambience8462]

I was driving down to Virginia Beach when it happened. We thought the car shaking was because the highway was bumpy lmao

[@juliasnyder8321]

Yes, I was In this earthquake. I was in the epicenter of it on my first week of kindergarten. It was scary, I had no idea what was going on since I was only 5, but the school was so badly damaged it had to get knocked over and rebuilt. However, I no longer live in Virginia, I moved, and I don’t know if another had happened since.

[@lpycb42]

Funny enough, I have lived through many earthquakes being from Peru, and usually am the first one to get out as soon as I feel any tremor. But this caught me so off guard, I considered every option before realizing it was an earthquake. I was completely dumbfounded.

[@292Skater]

i was in gym class,the basketball court was looking like it was about to fall(p.s i was in Maryland)

[@Ellything]

your hair looks so fluffy :3

[@takemetodinnerplzbidenuwu2580]

Yooooo I was in the same quake. It was the intense

[@k3upikachu]

i was getting changed in the gym bathroom in my office building and heard weights clanging aggressively out in the weight room. i didn't even think it was an earthquake; i was just like 'ok whoever is lifting weights like that needs to calm tf down'

[@joshmckinnley745]

What kinds of damage did you experience?

[@Sylox95]

I live in Southern Maryland and it was the craziest thing ever. I was in the house getting a drink of water and all of the sudden it started shaking. I swear I thought the house was going to fall down.

[@ShonnMorris]

Hello from California. We just had a small quake this morning in San Diego.

[@YVALISSE]

I am in Jouett elementary which is located in Louisa county. I was outside when it sounded like a freight train coming. i fell to the ground automaticlly!! scary it was so hectic at school that afternoon!

[@MsAceyourface]

My question is why were you sitting there recording the movie with your camera? Lol

[@geiuy]

@JHundreds do u normally record what your watching on tv with a videocamera?

[@misssam54]

We felt it in Ocean City Maryland. They were shutting down bridges checking for any damage on our way home... traffic was horrible since they closed the Gov't buildings to check them out for structural damage- worst drive ever back to Pennsylvania. I love these videos =D

[@scrubnoodle]

I was on the top floor of the Maryland science center. For a kindergartener, it was terrifying.

[@jammerThePilot812]

i was getting ready to go home then i saw the floor moving then 5 sec later everything was shaking i thought the light was going to fall

[@Orca19904]

I live in Oklahoma and was roughly 50 miles west of the epicenter of a 5.7 earthquake that happened here on the evening of November 5th. It was really wierd, but thankfully there wasn't any damage where I am (it was about like your experience; loud, rough shaking, but nothing knocked over or broken), though there was damage to roads and buildings close to the epicenter.

[@brrrtink1201]

I was in Washington DC and I saw the Washington mounument get cracked

[@itscasualfriday]

I was in Chick fil a in Spotsylvania (few miles from epicenter). This guy ran for the bathroom screaming "earthquake!" And we were all "Uh, no. We don't have earthquakes." It literally felt like the whole building was about to collapse on top of us.

[@OldSchoolBeRealDoe]

I remember that day. It scared the living fuck out of me and we just moved into my rebuilt house that caught on fire in the beginning of 2011, and I was like "There goes my house we just moved into" but we were fine lol. It was a rather interesting experience.

[@blacknbeatiful]

i remember this i was listening to music and sitting on my beanbag in my room bout to take a nap when the house starting to shake i got up and out of the room

[@mandymaddox9096]

my first earthquaake too!!

[@takemetodinnerplzbidenuwu2580]

I was trimming my toe nails when this happened 😂😂

[@mollendinousa]

I was deeply asleep that day, I never noticed the earthquake until someone told me, lol

[@branden22]

Here in cali this is just another Tuesday morning

[@icecoldcousin3617]

No one asked. You guys get a 2.6 frequently. That’s nothing. A 5.8 is way worse. And it’s on the east coast so it makes it even more worse. We never get earthquakes. A 2.8 would roll a pencil off a desk. That’s literally it.

[@branden22]

@@icecoldcousin3617 @C H U C K L E S I encourage you to Google California earthquakes over the last 5 years and maybe you'll sound like less of an idiot. I'm aware nobody asked, so I also encourage you to learn how a public comment feed on a video hosting website works.

[@sherriffnoldie]

Earthquakes are commonplace in my hometown of Santa Cruz, California. I'd be watching tv and thered be a crack of the house foundation and things swinging. I'd just think, "oh, an earthquake" and immediately forget about it. One where I snatched up my two toddler nephews and waited in a doorway for it to stop. But one day, people were killed in one only 2 miles from where I was that day. I was in Seattle and felt one..I looked around and nobody noticed. I felt the Japanese quake in Idaho!

[@113000816]

quick question, does the earthquake rarely happens in Virginia?

[@michaelrowe8878]

metallicfreak It was the first big earthquake in Virginia i think

[@seekinghimdaily92]

Ny B: I’ve lived here almost 17 years and yup, never any others but that one! 😉

[@bench8535]

I Remember this. I was 4 and soon to be 5. I was at a friend's house and then the ground starred shaking. I'm 11 now but I still removed the day.

[@icecoldcousin3617]

ay so we’re the same age

[@vinvgohg]

Because East Coast rarely has any Earthquakes...

[@tymoss]

That's crazy! but so awesome you were able to catch it on video!! haha.

[@DANGJOS]

That's crazy! We were doing the same thing. I was at home on my couch watching an episode of NCIS. I thought there was a helicopter flying overhead at first

[@XSideSaladSpikeX]

I remember this. I was chill af and my sister came running downstairs freaking out.

[@3USRNAM3]

We were neck and neck... An your video overtook mine for the win! Congrats.

[@cuddlecat9390]

It was my 2nd eq. I was at work on 8/23. We are about 20 minutes from DC. I was on the third floor of my building and it almost seemed like two separate earthquakes, like a weak one and a stronger one. The mouse in my ceiling ran after the weak eq. I thought we had a small explosion in a lab. The first earthquake I felt was at 5 a.m. in July 2010, also in MD which sounded like a dump truck driving by.

[@shquaylmelton6769]

Yooo to be watching Paranormal Activity at the same time an earthquake strikes is just downright creepy yo‼️

[@vanessabatres7884]

I was in DC at school that time

[@justinflo1]

@JHundreds dude is that tv a led or a lcd or a plasma

[@MySweetParadigm]

why were u filming the movie and with no sound?

[@gopatandal]

i remember this!! i was in my room and i thought it was my brother beating on the walls :)

[@Gonzalo.Escobar]

Well here in Peru they say that the safest way is to go outside, or to sit near a corner.

[@delaneybeauty2026]

this was also my first earthquake!! they canceled the first day of school because of this

[@anavgeekspassion5727]

DelaneyBeauty202 Nah that won't happen

[@trinityn5994]

DelaneyBeauty202 that was my first earthquake too

[@gabrielsgaming1914]

DelaneyBeauty202 this was my first earthquake as well. It cancelled the first day if school for me too.

[@freedamerican5243]

DelaneyBeauty202 it was my first one as well!!

[@DaygoJer]

earthquakes do happen everyday.. majority of em you just don't feel as they're only like around magnitude 1, 2 or 3.. you start really feeling them at like a magnitude 4

[@3USRNAM3]

I was freaking man it was scary! I'm with you, never experienced one in my life until that day. I've got some footage too on my channel...

[@fuknbludydragon2]

i was about to take a nap when all my cats and dogs started freaking out. i popped up off the bed and tried to go find my gf and her mom to see if they were ok and the earthquake shook the house so hard i couldnt stand up straight. it was scary. 5.8 was the largest earthquake has ever had. and i was in culpeper va. about 30 miles from where it started...

[@TheRonsta097]

That was a genuine earthquake...i'm from christchurch and recognise the noise and sound that an earthquake makes (been through nearly 10000)

[@salikagroeg]

@Luvmygmc I live in Greece, and whenever I feel a tremor, I´m like "ssheesh"! Don´t move, turn down the volume, let´s feel this thing first and then we continue :)

[@shawnthomas5557]

I felt the a little in pennsylvania!!

[@brittanynicholson1464]

that was really crazy....i live like 15 minutes from mineral and i had no idea what it was at first.

[@Illiyuwn]

i love your hair! this was a scary earthquake because it's unexpected.

[@shadegirl3thetrophyhunter899]

why were you recording in the first place?

[@TheScrowlingFender7]

I was siting on my couch in the living room when it happened. I didn't give a crap that it was an earthquake.

[@bigt2744]

I fell off the couch. I was sleep.

[@out_running_erins9118]

I was watching "Ghost Busters" and it was the scene where the books fly off the shelves in the library!

[@imarigray9867]

omg you're gorgeous I love your hair 😍😍💯

[@Sylox95]

I remember it. It was shaking like crazy down here in Calvert County.

[@katybeechan5163]

I was visiting for my grandma’s birthday when it happened; I was 12 so I can’t remember

[@TheSoftballstar1261]

I remember this!! I was going into my Junior year of High School!

[@mattmanrx99]

I was in my house in Fredericksburg and that happened I was like what the hell?

[@seekinghimdaily92]

Yup! I was in Spotsylvania County part of Fredericksburg and *I was quaking!*

[@edmister]

its kinda weird like in the movie it looked like it timed right with shaking when she ran from the door

[@seekinghimdaily92]

Yup! Remember it like it was yesterday! 😮

[@zachdeleon4706]

i was laying on the floor when it happened

[@icecoldcousin3617]

cool story

[@Myworld-ru9tc]

I remember when we had that I was scared

[@icecoldcousin3617]

o k

[@Cbridge1998]

@justinflo1 i dont think it really matters if the TV was an LCD or plasma

[@NileyLove23]

Hahaha I love it! You guys can't blame people that have never experienced earthquakes! They love in Virginia people, Virginia isn't like Cali. For oen though, you need to find cover if you suddenly feel shaking xD

[@bslee1993]

I live in va I felt that shit too

[@sergiorazo6807]

I had a 4.6 earthquake on year 2011. It happened in school

[@3775sean]

That scared the shit out of me. I live in Southern Maryland.