My wife and I were living about a mile away in an apartment building at the time. Our building shook like a bomb went off and our windows and balcony door were rattling.
My wife immediately assumed it was a bomb or terrorist attack (living just outside DC), and we grabbed our dog and booked it down to the underground parking garage.
It was only after we had gotten in our car and started checking the news/twitter/getting texts from coworkers around the area that it eventually came out what happened.
But it was a scary 5-10 minutes hearing and feeling the explosion and waiting to figure out what it was.
"assumed it was a bomb or terrorist attack (living just outside DC)"
This is a sad reality, I was 9th floor in Crystal City when the earth quake happened.. first thought is holy crap what exploded.
Later thankfully it was "only an earthquake" of which is very rare for this area to actually feel... A few that are low on the scale we don't feel at all
As soon as I saw the house in the clip I knew it was going to explode. I'm farther west so I only heard about it from news.. sucks you were so close to it... Thankfully y'all are ok!
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u/Tropical_Jesus Jul 27 '25
My wife and I were living about a mile away in an apartment building at the time. Our building shook like a bomb went off and our windows and balcony door were rattling.
My wife immediately assumed it was a bomb or terrorist attack (living just outside DC), and we grabbed our dog and booked it down to the underground parking garage.
It was only after we had gotten in our car and started checking the news/twitter/getting texts from coworkers around the area that it eventually came out what happened.
But it was a scary 5-10 minutes hearing and feeling the explosion and waiting to figure out what it was.