"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"And freezing."
"However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."
~by A.A. Milne
"And freezing."
"However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."
~by A.A. Milne
I was upstairs, sitting at my desk...doing something on the computer, when the earthquake hit. I knew exactly what it was, since I'd experienced an earthquake when I lived in Kentucky. That felt like a slight tremor; this felt like...well, let's just say that I felt it!
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 4.1 magnitude earthquake which hit at 10:23 pm on Friday (February 14th), seven miles northwest of Edgefield, South Carolina. It was felt across South Carolina and as far away as Atlanta, Georgia and Greensboro, North Carolina.
I went downstairs to ask my husband if he had felt it. He had been asleep in the recliner...and looked at me like I was crazy. I said, "Check it out! --Get on Facebook or the Internet...." I received another "look" from him, like Yeah, right. However, he did switch the television to a news channel. Sure enough, they were reporting that telephone calls and e-mail messages were flooding in to the newsroom from throughout the upstate....
Although the earthquake hit approximately 90 miles away from us, I was rocked forward and backward, and back and forth in my chair...and the items on the shelves of my desk hutch were rattling...for at least 8 seconds. (If you think about it, that's a long time when you're being jostled unexpectedly by an earthquake.)
An earthquake of this size is not a common occurrence in South Carolina. This earthquake was the strongest in South Carolina since a 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck near Charleston in 2002.
Did you feel South Carolina's earthquake on Friday night? Have you ever been in an earthquake?
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