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Earthquake Tremors Felt in Crown Heights

770 and the Merkos offices were evacuated after the earthquake.

BREAKING: Earthquake like tremors were felt in Crown Heights, and throughout Brooklyn just moments ago. The city’s 911 system was instantly flooded with calls for buildings and houses shaking. No official report yet on what exactly had taken place. UPDATES in the extended article.

[14:08] Reports of an earthquake in Virginia measuring 5.8. Aftershocks and tremors felt till Washington DC and New York.

Land phone lines and cellphones are reporting outages all the way to Buffalo. BBM is reportedly working.

[14:13] AP is reporting the following:

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., shook much of Washington, D.C., and was felt as far north as Rhode Island and New York City.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was 3.7 miles deep. Shaking was felt at the White House and all over the East Coast, as far south as Chapel Hill, N.C. Parts of the Pentagon, White House and Capitol were evacuated. The quake was in Mineral, Va., in Louisa County.

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30 Comments

  • well built ch home

    when you have strong beams you dont feel it!
    would’ve been cool to feel it though.

  • Earthquake

    5.9 earthquake tremors in Virginia at a depth of 1km (shallow), tremors felt in Crown Heights were actual earthquake tremors.

  • dr

    there was a 6.0 mag earthquake in washington dc we felt a little tremmer but it was caused by the earthquake in dc the The Associated Press reports that the Pentagon is being evacuated
    and that the Capitol building has been evacuated.

  • Yisroel Karp

    I was on the telephone and I felt the house shake. I thought maybe a truck was pushing against my house. It was not as strong as the earthquake that affected Crown Heights on a Shabbos morning around 1979 or 1980. Then I felt my house actually quivering.

  • Andrea Schonberger

    No offense Yidden but I’m from California and 5.9 is nothing–we eat those for breakfast.

  • Shakin- all over

    “That was not an earthquake, that was our Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves!” (from a Facebook friend)

    It can also be said to reflect the insanity that’s going on in the Rebbe’s Sh’chunah

  • TO #1

    IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BEAMS OF YOUR HOUSE. IF THE GROUNDS SHAKE IT SHAKES NO MATTER WHATS ON IT OR HOW STRONG IT IS. THERE IS OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU. I SUGGEST YOU GET YOURSELF CHECKED OUT ASAP

  • a crown heightser

    i felt it i was at sterling electronocs with my mom and she asked the lady who takes pic why the floor was shaking the lady said she ddnt know why but she felt it shake and thought it was her imagination! then we came home and heard the radio that there was an earthquake!!

  • beis din shaking

    thought it was a beis din meeting
    they always make waves
    hey is it only the gsy rights states that have crisis

  • A Musmach

    Don’t freak out. I lost my condo and almost everything I owned to a 6.8 (or was it a 7.1?) many years back. Thank G-d for insurance which covered me from head to toe.

  • to # 17

    what a lovely romantic story. lmk when you make a book with pictures ill be sure to purchase it

  • mm

    yes i felt it i thought that my sis was jumping but it was not
    i got soooooooooooooo scared so for number 1 dos not mater

  • californian

    i agree with 10 by us we have big ones and more frequently while you have snow storms

  • number 1

    number 1 here
    i live in the center of ch. our home is pretty new. there were like 10 of us home and none of us felt it! not kidding.
    all my neightbors did!

  • serel maness

    to # 20,all this fighting is really coming from the rabble rousers,hasham is tellung us something

  • sure we felt it in Brooklyn

    I was on the 12th floor in Brooklyn. Wasn’t sure if it was me or the building till I saw the blinds shaking! Followed by hundreds of people CALMLY running down the stairs and across the street. Got the rest of the day off from work “YAY”. BH no one was hurt!

  • Shayna

    the earthquake happened because a lowlife by the name of mulleh chanin is running crown heights

  • yid

    I was by a farbrengen I was so shiker when the earthquake hit the world stood still for a moment

  • LA

    It was an aftershock in new york. its not such big news for us in LA- we get them all the time!

  • to #16 and 21

    The way you speak to people in your comments is the reason the second bais hamikdash was destroyed, and probably the reason G-d felt the need to send an earthquake to shake us up to get us back on track!
    there is no need to be nasty to human beings! All your doing is making G-d sad…