Virginia Earthquake!

Looks like we had an earthquake in Virginia today around 2PM, and it was felt all the way up the coast to Maine and into Canada.

The USGS is reporting it as a 5.8 or 5.9 magnitude quake.

Thanks to Xeni Jardin, here’s a Google map showing how close the epicenter of the quake was to the North Anna nuclear power station.

After realizing what was going on, I grabbed my video camera and took some footage of some glasses clinking. About 31 seconds in you can also hear my cat, upset.

Here’s the video:

Okay, maybe this is not too traumatic, but we don’t get many earthquakes in Virginia, so it gets everyone excited.

In all I’d estimate the quake lasted a couple minutes.

According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, here’s a look at Virginia’s biggest earthquakes.