<p>According to USGS, we were 29 miles away from the epicentre!</p>
<p>I hope the Rotunda's cracks aren't amplified. </p>
<p>I think the Cav Daily will go crazy tomorrow. No word yet from University officials?</p>
<p>I am bummed that I didn’t feel it.</p>
<p>There is this article: [Virginia</a> quake rattles Coast | The Cavalier Daily](<a href=“http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2011/08/24/virginia-quake-rattles-coast/]Virginia”>http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2011/08/24/virginia-quake-rattles-coast/)</p>
<p>If you don’t use Twitter, it’s a great tool for information during events like those of yesterday. After it was over, I walked from my door frame to check my Twitter client and there were tweets from around Charlottesville and the University. </p>
<p>I prefer checking Twitter to getting a dozen broadcast emails from listserves. It’s a nice way to get information. :)</p>
<p>Anyway, take a look at Twitter. The official UVa feed is good and most of the schools have them, too. </p>
<p>[U.Va</a>. on Twitter](<a href=“http://twitter.com/#!/uva]U.Va”>http://twitter.com/#!/uva)</p>
<p>I felt it over 350 mi away…creepy. 
Not what I was expecting as I tried to work on my thesis…I thought it was just my neighbor’s washing machine or something till my bookcases started to sway.</p>
<p>I was advising first-year students in my office when our whole building started to shake. Everybody on my floor rushed outside except for two faculty who are natives of California; they remained placidly at their desks chatting with their advisees.</p>
<p>The natural inclination is to immediately run outside. However, the biggest risk is from bricks and other building pieces falling down around the outside of the building.</p>
<p>I was getting ready to start my very first class! It was crazy. I’ve lived in Virginia my entire life so I’ve never experienced an earthquake.</p>
<p>Wow did anyone feel that aftershock?</p>
<p>My heart refuses to stop pounding 20 minutes later – it still feels like it’s tremoring now and then.</p>
<p>Said Marge Sidebottom, director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness: “While a pre-scripted earthquake message is not presently in our UVa Alerts messaging bank, serious consideration will be given to adding one…”</p>
<p>[Tremors</a> From Virginia Quake Send Shivers Through U.Va.](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=15857]Tremors”>http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=15857)</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>I felt it! Apparently there have been three aftershocks now (8pm Tuesday, 1am Thursday, 11:30am Thursday), but the one last night was the only one I’ve felt.</p>
<p>There have actually be nine aftershocks…but I only felt two myself (the ones that were in the 4s). </p>
<p>[Earthquake</a> List for Map Centered at 38N, 78W](<a href=“http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/37.39.-79.-77_eqs.php]Earthquake”>http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/37.39.-79.-77_eqs.php)</p>
<p>I felt the 3.4 one!</p>
<p>I felt the 2’s following the 4.5 all night because it was a late night and I was in the lab and I was extremely sensitised to any vibration and my heart wouldn’t stop racing.</p>
<p>The vibrations are kind of subtle, but you feel like you’re being tilted off your chair and the earth is dropping below you and then coming back, ever so slightly.</p>
<p>9?! Wow, that’s impressive!</p>