Another Aftershock Shakes Northern Virginia
USGS reports a 4.5 magnitude earthquake early Thursday morning
Photos
Update 1:56 a.m.: More reports from residents who felt the 4.5 magnitude aftershock early Thursday morning are also coming in via Twitter.
visionAri_style 1:30am: #aftershock !!!! I felt that !!!! I knew I wasn't trippen! But I am trippen bc I packed a bag in case of emergency (lol) #DCearthquake
wjgage 1:25am: EARTHQUAKE just now. 1:10 am EST. Did you feel it? We were awake this time & most decidedly did. #dcearthquake #dcquake
FeliciaD2006 1:24am: So I wonder if their now going to start adding earthquake drills to the list of "safety procedures" on this east coast? #dcearthquake #DC
Brown_EyedGirl 1:23am: 1:07AM - a 4.5 aftershock just hit here in Arlington, #VA So that's what I felt!! #dcearthquake
Khosla_HCG 1:19am: Aftershock 1, Sleep 0. Just felt another #DCearthquake - 4.5 magnitude! yfrog.com/h4uf0aalj
MarkKeam 1:11am: Just felt another aftershock. It was small but definitely rumbled the house...
carly_mucci 1:10am: proud to say i felt the earthquake and now the aftershock!
@coolmcjazz 1:09am: OH snap. Definitely an aftershock. Anyone else feel that? #DCearthquake 2.0
Update 1:41 a.m.: When Vienna Patch reader Kayla N. Sharpe woke up just after 1 a.m., she thought it was because of the flight exercises NORAD told residents it would be conducting Wednesday night.
But what woke her was another aftershock, USGS reported, measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale.
Other readers from across Northern Virginia and into Maryland wrote in on Facebook to share they had felt it too.
- Maria Alvarez-Lundie: In Vienna - Heard it more than felt it. All the china rattled and walls creaked!
- Margot Smirniotopoulos Felt it in McLean for sure
- Linda Ross I just woke up to what I thought felt like another one, but I wasn't sure what it was since still 1/2 asleep. Waynesboro, VA
- Christina Chronister Woke up my whole family. Getting really tired of these quakes.
- Christy Cier Ryan Felt it in Oakton.
- Gary Loewenthal Felt it in Falls Church. Woke up the humans; didn't see any reactions from the animals (cat and rabbit).
- Jenna Rice felt it all the way up in MD!
Original: Days after a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the East Coast, a fifth aftershock hit Virginia.
A 4.5 magnitude aftershock occurred around 1:07 a.m. Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.
Four other aftershocks occurred within hours of the Tuesday afternoon earthquake: a 2.8 at 2:46 p.m., a 2.2 at 3:20 p.m., and a 4.2 at 8:04 p.m. that day, and a 3.4 at 12:45 a.m. Wednesday morning.
All five aftershocks, as well as the initial earthquake, occurred near Mineral — about 35 miles northwest of Richmond and 84 miles southwest of Washington, D.C.
This article has been corrected to show this is the fifth aftershock since Tuesday's earthquake.
Jarrod, Metro DC DJs
2:09 am on Thursday, August 25, 2011
Felt nothing in Herndon near the airport. Was is my living room, same place I was for first one and nothing this time. No strange actions by pets, nothing shook on the walls. We are accustomed to aircraft vibrations here but nothing from the ground.
crystal
2:18 am on Thursday, August 25, 2011
I was watching tv and felt it. I live in Front Royal, VA
Leslie Perales
2:30 am on Thursday, August 25, 2011
I live in Reston Town Center and felt it. It woke my dog up. Fiance slept through it. :)
D
7:11 am on Thursday, August 25, 2011
around 1:07 this morning I felt it here in Reston. it was a lot shorter in lenth
Bergin Panimayam
7:32 am on Thursday, August 25, 2011
I live in Herndon across frying pan, I was working and didn't feel anything.
Wien
9:01 am on Thursday, August 25, 2011
Good news folks, in the New Madrid quakes in 1811/12, the most destructive quake happened two months after the first....
But their fault line is much worse than the small one in VA...so I wouldn't worry about that here. Just some fun trivia for you.
Viennian
11:48 am on Thursday, August 25, 2011
I felt it also, and the one the night before. My whole room started to shake, my nephew in the basement said the couch was shaking, It started small and got worse shaking my bed, my lamp etc. and I was scared to death that it would be like the day before. I prayed to God over and over again and it stopped. Although I didn't know it had stopped because my entire body was shaking so bad I thought I was still feeling the aftershock. No more earthquakes!
Margaret Anderson
10:09 pm on Thursday, August 25, 2011
I felt it in Reston, but it was small and didn't last long. I only noticed it because I was still awake.
Carole Corlew
7:10 am on Friday, August 26, 2011
I keep pots of the tropical flower the Angel's Trumpet in the yard from April until first frost. They've been falling over all week. I finally figured out the aftershocks are tossing them.