Did anyone else in Maryland feel an earthquake?

[qanda]

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?

[LiberalEsto]

1. Not in Rockville n/t

[On the Road]

2. Not in Beltsville

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

[LiberalEsto]

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.

[shireen]

7. under Dundalk

apparently, the epicenter was about 5 miles under Dundalk!

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

[LibertyLover]

4. Earthquake

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

[qanda]

5. Apparently, there were two

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

[Mutley]

6. i live pretty close to the epicenter...

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

[kwassa]

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.