Talk of the Town

By Diane H Rosser

September 10, 2006 4:04 PM | Link to this

I live in Jackson, Butts Co., GA and there were tremors here this morning. That’s why I checked the AJC site to see if there was a report of an earthquake near us.

By Atl Native

September 10, 2006 4:06 PM | Link to this

yes I was lying on my bed when it shifted right then left. There was nothing immediate on the television so I assumed it was construction.

By Mike

September 10, 2006 4:07 PM | Link to this

I felt it this morning at Ga Tech. Woke me up and I had no clue what was going on.

By Cindy

September 10, 2006 4:07 PM | Link to this

Yes! I live in Powder Springs,GA (Paulding County) - My husband and I were sitting at the kitchen table when you could hear the window rattling. It happened 1st for about 7 seconds and stopped, but then happened again about 15 - 20 seconds later. After the second, we looked at the time of the occurrence and it was just before 11:00 am, Sunday morning. We truly thought what we felt might have been an earthquake…it’s nice to know that what we thought has been confirmed.

By Lisa

September 10, 2006 4:09 PM | Link to this

We felt it here in Newnan and I remembered feeling a similar tremor a few years ago. It did not last too long but my daughter has a wooden figure on a pedestal in her room and she said it was swaying.

By Barbara Anderson

September 10, 2006 4:09 PM | Link to this

I felt the tremor - the furniture shaking. Just slightly, but I was in a tremor in Mississippi when I was a child, so I recognized the sensation. I noted that it was 11am. My husband was mowing the lawn. He didn’t notice it. But I knew immediately what it was.

Barbara Anderson

By Paula

September 10, 2006 4:12 PM | Link to this

I actually joked that it was an earthquake knowing that we don’t have earthquakes in Fla. I noticed a photo moving and then my husband asked??? Did our house just move? We thought a huge truck had sped down the road or that there was some kind of crash close by, never really expecting a real earthquake… It had to have been felt by more than 2000. Maybe only 2000 reported feeling it.

By SpeakingTruth

September 10, 2006 4:15 PM | Link to this

Yes, I felt it, at approximately 10:59 A.M. I called a local TV station and was apparently the first to mention it! It lasted about 8-9 seconds; I felt 2 distinct segments with a 1-2 second pause in between) in my home. I felt the entire house shake and saw my bookcases—with silk flowers on top—tremble.

By Mike Hipp

September 10, 2006 4:21 PM | Link to this

I was on the sofa with my eyes closed as a history channel program was ending. It was right around 11a.m. There was a creaking sound in the house, the dog started barking I felt movement. Also, a jacket in the hallway fell off it’s hanging place. It was like the house went back, forward and then back again.

The best way I can describe it is as if you are in a traffic jamb and on a bridge while a semi is rolling by in another lane. I told my partner who didn’t feel it that we just had an earthquake. He didn’t believe me until we started hearing about it on the radio within the next hour.

By Sky

September 10, 2006 4:21 PM | Link to this

I felt the earth move…under my feet.. I felt the sky tumbling down.. I think that is how it goes…

By RTibbs

September 10, 2006 4:34 PM | Link to this

I didn’t fel it but I was siting by the window and it was rattling. I could not figure out why. Funny thing was we were talking about how Georgia has small earthquakes last night with some people from California.

By John Creviston

September 10, 2006 4:40 PM | Link to this

I was laying in bed about 11:00 Sunday morning and felt the bed shake very subtly. Then a few minutes later I felt the bed shake again. I was a little harder, but still very subtle. It was enough to make me look at the clock - 11:09 AM. I live around Clairmont and I-85.

I thought it may had been from a sonic boom from a 9-11 memorial service or something since may services start at 11:00 on Sunday mornings, but Sunday was 9-10. I did not hear any boom so I thought it was far off.

It did cross my mind that a large terrorist bomb had gone off.

Then I saw on CNN a few hours later about the earthquake.

John Creviston, Atlanta

By Jennifer

September 10, 2006 4:42 PM | Link to this

I live in Dunwoody, Ga. I was sleeping late since I went out the night before and I was awaken by the tremors. I recall my headboard shaking and I said to myself I must be dreaming. I looked at my Armour which was at eye level, then I looked at a perfume bottle to where the liquid was starting to move in the bottle for a few seconds. I then asked my sister who was awake down stairs who was on the phone, and she stated she didnt feel a thing. This is strange coming from a person that was a sleep.

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By Taylor Jackson

September 10, 2006 4:45 PM | Link to this

I was sitting in my 7th story condo in Ormond Beach, FL (near Daytona Beach) when my building began to sway. I thought I was just imagining it, however it happened again a few seconds later. At that point we figured that it was a quake. It was strong enough to rattle our windows and rattle dishes in the china cabinet.

By Lucy

September 10, 2006 4:46 PM | Link to this

Yes it rattled our home in Buckhead.

By Juan Ruiz

September 10, 2006 4:59 PM | Link to this

I just moved down to Tampa a month ago and I only thought I had to contend with Hurricanes. Well, this morning, while eating breakfast I noticed my table shaking and for a split second I thought it was an earthquake, but I’m in Tampa, not California! So I thought it was my crazy neighbors having a good time, somehow shaking the building. I mean what else could it have been? Well, I came to ajc.com to see how the dirty birds beat down the panthers and I was flabergasted to see an article confirm that it was an earthquake… Crazy! Oh yeah, and Tampa lost!!! Go Falcons!

By John Shaw

September 10, 2006 5:05 PM | Link to this

I was sitting at my computer desk,here in Covington, Ga., when the desk began shaking back and forth maybe 5 or six times, then a few second pause, then shook again for about the same duration.

By Brian

September 10, 2006 5:20 PM | Link to this

It was like someone shoved the end of my bed a few times right before 11 am. I live in Dunwoody, GA

By Shirley Sklar

September 10, 2006 5:30 PM | Link to this

I felt nothing - I was in church at that time, surrounded by a solid foundation, in the basement level.

By Tammy

September 10, 2006 5:37 PM | Link to this

I was on the Cox MS 150 Atlanta Challenge ride in Harris County and may have been in a porta-potty at the time…I remember feeling a little off-balance, like someone was shaking the unit. I thought, “oh crap, (no pun intended), this thing is tipping…….

By budman

September 10, 2006 5:50 PM | Link to this

I was asleep on a dirt floor in a bunker in Viet Nam with my flight jacket under my head,this was 35 years ago, when the ground started shaking I was so excited that I was in my first earthquake. I ran outside and saw a large b-52 airstrike and was so dissapointed, I ran outside this morning looking for the b-52’s but again I was dissapointed. One of these days I’ll get to use my earth science education.

By DKennedy

September 10, 2006 5:50 PM | Link to this

It was around 11:00 am. I was in a Starbucks in Marietta, GA, sitting at at table reading when I felt the swaying. I used to live in Calif. so I know what an earthquake feels like and that darn sure felt like one. It seemed like about 10-15 seconds. But I looked around and I seemed to be the only one who noticed it. I thought maybe it was me, having a dizzy spell. So I went to check my blood pressure. Thanks for reporting it was an earthquake, my husband thought I was nuts.

By Sherri

September 10, 2006 5:56 PM | Link to this

I am in Southwest Georgia right on the Georgia/Florida line at Lake Seminole. I was sitting at my computer when my chair started swaying. I thought my (very large)cat had come in the room and was bumping my chair - but he wasn’t in the room. Then it happened again!

By yeah man

September 10, 2006 5:58 PM | Link to this

I felt it. My office at home is right of my laundry room and it felt like when my washer is on spin. But my washer wasn’t going. I looked at the clock and it was 10:47am.

Being from Calif. I suspected to be a tremor but WOW, in Georgia.

By Nicole

September 10, 2006 6:09 PM | Link to this

I live in downtown Atlanta, I was up watching tv when it felt like someone was shaking my house. I looked out the window to see if there was someone out there swinging from my balcony. I later told my boyfriend and he thought I was crazy!

By Jackson

September 10, 2006 6:11 PM | Link to this

Felt the shake in Cobb County; Vinings area. Was lying in the bed, the bed, [bed/bath]room doors shook and the television (have satellite) was blank for about 3 seconds.

By maddem

September 10, 2006 6:15 PM | Link to this

I actually felt the room shaking this morning. I thought that it might have been because I have a cold and took alot of theraflu or nyquil last night but then I saw my lamp move and some books move so I started asking people but everyone said I was crazy.

By Stacy Dumas

September 10, 2006 6:15 PM | Link to this

I was sitting outside, reading the paper, when it felt like someone was shaking my deck. I thought I was losing it. Good to know I wasn’t.

LaGrange, GA

By JP

September 10, 2006 6:21 PM | Link to this

I live in Canton (Cherokee County) and noticed the doors to one our cabinets was rattling this morning. I had no idea. Totally weird.

By JustMe

September 10, 2006 6:29 PM | Link to this

Yes, I felt my bed shaking this morning just as I was getting up in Woodstock.

By shar

September 10, 2006 6:39 PM | Link to this

Having lived in Calif. 46 years. moving to Ga just recently. Living in Woodstock. Was working on my computer and bam, felt something that reminded me of an earthquake. Now having been through quite a few. Said to self, naw, I live in Ga. every thing moving. Felt like an earthquake. Been there. Just couldn’t believe that it happens here as will.

By Jarrod

September 10, 2006 6:42 PM | Link to this

I was practicing archery this morning next to my north Forsyth double-wide, and my full scale deer target moved about two inches. I first thought it was just a Jack Daniels hangover, but then I saw my TV antenna fall. I then knew it was an earthquake and Bush’s global warming fault. At least, that’s the world according to Gore.

By Mom in Lawrenceville

September 10, 2006 6:46 PM | Link to this

I was at my computer and had just leaned on the desk when I thought I felt it moving. The monitor seemed to move, too. I thought that maybe I’d just had too much coffee and then it happened again. I waited to see if my son (10) had noticed anything, but he hadn’t. About an hour and a half later I got an email from my mother in Fl who said she’d noticed her desk moving that morning!!

By Stephanie

September 10, 2006 7:24 PM | Link to this

I was wondering why my dishes were rattling, as if a large vehicle was passing by - but when they didn’t stop, I noticed the mirror on the wall moving, too, and remembered the small earthquake from about a year ago.

By Scott Lilienfeld

September 10, 2006 7:26 PM | Link to this

Yep, I definitely felt it (I live near Piedmont Park). I was feeling a bit under the weather, and went back to bed at around 10:15 this morning. I awoke about half an hour later, and while lying in bed I felt the bed “rolling” and swaying beneath me for a few seconds. This is most unusual, as my bed is a high loft, and I’ve never felt anything like this before. I was so puzzled that I looked around to see if there was any construction, etc., but nothing was going on. I looked at the clock, and it was about 10:55 A.M. Only a few hours later did I learn that the earthquake hit at precisely the same time.

By Charles

September 10, 2006 7:31 PM | Link to this

Yes. I was sitting at my desk in the den when it occurred. It rattled all the glass figurines on my desk. I thought for a second I was just dizzy, but then the thought crossed my mind I had just experienced an earthquake.

It was definitely felt in Gainesville, Georgia.

By Vanessa

September 10, 2006 7:50 PM | Link to this

I live in Covington and I was laying across my bed when it started doing a slow swaying type movement. I thought it was my dog at the foot of the bed rubbing herself, but when I looked down she was lying across the room on her rug. Then it did it again a little lighter. Good to know I wasn’t losing it!

By Ken

September 10, 2006 7:53 PM | Link to this

Yes, I live in SW Atlanta and I felt the vibrations around 10:55 A.M. I was lying in bed waiting on NFL Countdown on ESPN to come on. Initially, I thought it was a plane landing at nearby Hartsfield-Jackson but I didn’t hear anything.

By Dave

September 10, 2006 8:00 PM | Link to this

I live in Buckhead. My chair shook for a second or two. Then I asked my 7 year old daughter if she felt it while laying on the couch. She said she did, and I said it felt like an earthquake. I turned on the news on the TV and radio, and when I didn’t hear any reports I told my daughter that we must be the only ones who are crazy. A few hours later I finally saw it on the “crawl” on Fox News. Why did it take so long to report it, and why wasn’t it reported locally sooner?

By DePetro

September 10, 2006 8:00 PM | Link to this

I felt it and immediately knew what it was. I was watching the end of sportscenter and I started bouncing up and down on my couch and my TV was shaking.

I brought it up at dinner tonight with friends and they though I was crazy.

By CoolHandLuke

September 10, 2006 8:15 PM | Link to this

I live in Sugar Hill/Buford and felt the quake. I remember the tremors that made it Georgia a couple of years ago, so I’m an old pro at the diagnosis. Then again, if it wasn’t a quake, I figured the rumble was Steve Spurrier throwing his visor one last time!

By Barbara

September 10, 2006 8:32 PM | Link to this

I live in downtown Decatur. Just as I sat down at my computer this morning, I felt my house shake. My kitties perked up and stayed still. It happened again. I called a friend and said that I thought we had just had an earthquake as Atlanta is on a fault line.

By Lynn

September 10, 2006 8:39 PM | Link to this

I live in Ellenwood and I was in bed when I felt the tremors. When I felt the first one, I thought maybe the house was vibrating from a plane flying too low. But when I felt the second one, I said to myself,there’s a quake somewhere. Sure enough when I watch the 12 o’clock news, that’s what is was.

By BearsFan

September 10, 2006 8:42 PM | Link to this

Speaking as a geology student it’s practically impossible to have felt such a minor seismic waves farer than 300 miles from the source. News of earthquakes tend to affect populaces with little earthquake history, in a way that causes them to desire to have felt it. Such desire causes people to imagine things.

By Nelson

September 10, 2006 8:46 PM | Link to this

I live in Stockbridge, Ga. I felt my bed shake but too tired/sleepy to investigate and even if I had, I would not have thought it was an earthquake.

By Patricia

September 10, 2006 8:58 PM | Link to this

I live in Cobb County, Vinings area (close to the Cumberland Mall). I was sitting on my bed watching TV. The TV remote control was on my leg when I felt the vibration. At first, I thought it was my muscle jumping, b/c I saw the remote control moving, but then I saw my dresser mirror moving a little. I didn’t know what to think.

By SM

September 10, 2006 9:03 PM | Link to this

I didn’t feel a thing and I was in my car driving at the time. Nothing, nada,…

By Bill

September 10, 2006 9:10 PM | Link to this

I was about to leave on a motorcycle ride to north georgia and I almost dropped my bike from the shaking. I thought maybe it was just my ol knees acting up again. Little did I know i wuz smack dab in the middle of a Georgia earthquake.

By Jean

September 10, 2006 9:46 PM | Link to this

During a church service in Marietta, Georgia, I felt the floor of the building moving. I thought I was imagining it but I noticed other people looking toward the windows to see what was causing the shaking. It lasted for about 5 seconds.

By chris

September 10, 2006 10:03 PM | Link to this

no, was in my car.

By Craig

September 10, 2006 10:16 PM | Link to this

Felt it in southern Forsyth County GA- lasted less the 10 seconds as I sat on my patio - felt like I was in a boat rocking - thought it had to be tied to construction.

By dniblack

September 10, 2006 10:32 PM | Link to this

Man, I thought I was crazy. I thought it was maybe the way I was laying down or something, but thing I looked at the top of my t.v. and saw this picture wobbling on top and figured someone was moving heavy furniture up/down the stairs in my apartment bldg. I live on the southside, but didn’t think much of it. I grew up here in ATL, so the last thing I thought of was an earthquake. That was weird.

By Bicycling Mom in Decatur

September 10, 2006 10:45 PM | Link to this

My 10 year old son and I were on a bike ride around Decatur. He commented that they built the road so that it vibrated. I didn’t pay any attention then, but now I realize what he was talking about!

By Darrin

September 10, 2006 10:55 PM | Link to this

Sorry BearsFan, geology student or not, I’ve spent time living in Cali and I know that was a tremor I felt this morning. I was laying on the couch watching Sportscenter and felt my apt bldg shaking and thought it was my imagination until I saw pictures in my apt wobbling. I know it’s possible to imagine HEARING things, but not seeing things move, it takes more than imagination to start seeing things, that’s called crazy. As a matter of fact, I’ve felt this a couple of times in the last month, just didn’t think anything of it, because this is GA. This was one was surely biggerm, but just wobbly. A couple of years ago, it was a more jarring tremor, like someone was kicking the side of the earth. Those are THE two types of tremors you will feel, either wobbly and jarring. Just makes me wonder- what the hell is going on and were those other ones I thought I felt because they were similar to today’s, a sign of bigger things to come? Not cool.

By Susie

September 10, 2006 11:18 PM | Link to this

I felt the earth swaying to the music at 11:00 Sunday morning here in the East Cobb area of Marietta, GA….Unfortunately my Jack Russell Terriers slept through both tremors.

By Jonathan

September 10, 2006 11:24 PM | Link to this

My sister, who’s always been really loud, was moving back into the house and I was still asleep… and the rumbling and shaking. I blamed it on her. But it was the quake!

By terri

September 10, 2006 11:51 PM | Link to this

I felt it! I was sitting at my computer and thought maybe it was a big truck passing by(sometimes causing my house to shake), but now I know better.

By Early Bird

September 11, 2006 12:03 AM | Link to this

My husband and I didn’t feel a thing this morning. I have never felt any of the earthquakes that have hit Atlanta. Still trying to figure out why so many Atlantan’s were still in bed at 11:00 am-that’s weird.

By George

September 11, 2006 12:09 AM | Link to this

Yes, I felt it. My flat screen monitor starting vibrating and then my computer desk shook for a few seconds. I ran to the other side of the house to see if it was happening still but it had stopped. I’m glad I was not asleep this time.

By Grace

September 11, 2006 12:31 AM | Link to this

I disagree with BearsFan. I didn’t know anything about an earthquake when I felt the shaking this morning just before 11 a.m. I, too, live in Ellenwood and am used to the planes but I had not heard of an earthquake anywhere in the world until I logged on to ajc.com. I am familiar with the phenom of mass hysteria but people have to have been aware of something to claim they too experienced it.

By kimberly

September 11, 2006 12:39 AM | Link to this

i felt it ,looked outside, didn’t see any strong winds outside.looked on ajc.com and didn’t see any report.i thought i know i wasn’t dizzy.

By Elizabeth

September 11, 2006 12:52 AM | Link to this

I felt it in Fayetteville, while using my computer. First tremor,I said this feels like the earthquake from several years ago. Then I saw my large TV/monitor moving. That confirmed it for me.

By V. Pappas

September 11, 2006 1:01 AM | Link to this

East Cobb, Marietta, Georgia: At about 10:50 am Sunday morning, I was in bed not feeling like getting up because I had a late night last night. I felt the shaking and I thought maybe my husband was doing something downstairs on the main level of the house because I was sleeping on the second level. I called out for him and asked him why is the bed shaking. He said he has no idea. He asked if I think it is an earth quake. We both shrugged our shoulders and we had no idea that there was an earthquake this morning. Wow, that is incrediable how I can feel it from thousands of miles away. Scary!!!

By Joe

September 11, 2006 1:51 AM | Link to this

I was working on my computer and the key board and monitor started to shake. I wondered if it was an Earthquake but I was not sure.

Dallas, GA

By JoeB

September 11, 2006 1:53 AM | Link to this

Yes I felt it! I was working on my computer desk and the keyboard and monitor started to shake. At first I was not sure what it was but when it happened again I knew it was an Earthquake.

Paulding County GA

By steve-oh

September 11, 2006 2:44 AM | Link to this

Acworth has such big trucks it’s like one continuous earthquake and I slept through it. Last year, when I was at my Brother’s in Tampa, around March there was a big one, it was supposedly 3.2, and lasted 40 seconds. The Media claimed it was 2 jets hitting mach 2, but anything in FLA that threatens the Mouse, the O.J., or the Housing Bubble gets squelched fast, and believe me-that was a real earthquake. I’m really suprised they didn’t claim this one was swamp gas also.

By Kathy

September 11, 2006 6:20 AM | Link to this

I was sitting in my van at Callaway Gardens waiting on my husband who was riding in the MS150 Bike Ride. I thought that someone was sitting on my bumper and making the car move up and down. My van was visibly moving up and down. It lasted about 10 seconds and I got out of the van to see if I could feel it while standing on the ground but it was over.

By Patricia

September 11, 2006 6:41 AM | Link to this

I live in Palm Harbor, Florida. A little before 11:00 AM on Sunday I felt the tremors. I was sitting watching television waiting for the space shuttle to go up when I felt the first tremor. My first thought was it had something to do with the space shuttle. I felt the tremor ease up and then intensify again. My next thought was that we were experiencing an earthquake or sitting on a sink hole. It was a very strange feeling. A little scary!!

By Debbie Bradshaw

September 11, 2006 6:51 AM | Link to this

I live in South Unincorporate Fulton County, near Fayetteville. It was about 10am Sunday. I was sitting at my computer. My daughter was standing in the bathroom adjacent to me. The computer desk started to shake. I pulled my hand off, thinking that I was getting sick. I called my daughter, asking her if she felt the shake. She said, “no.” About a second latter, the house was shaking. The computer desk was shaking so hard that I thought the computer would fall off. There were 2 strong shakes and a few small ones. I knew there was an earthquake somewhere close. I was not going crazy.

By Familiar with Earthquakes

September 11, 2006 6:53 AM | Link to this

We live in Kennesaw, GA. we were enjoying a lazy late Sunday Morning when the shaking began. I was using my laptop and it started shaking on my lap and my body felt the “movement” under my feet and through the couch I was sitting on, the “movement” was very obvious. When the second “movement” happened about 6-8 seconds later my husband admitted he felt it also. We lived in Alaska for about 30 years and the Pacific Northwest for about 15+ years and knew we were feeling an Earthquake, however could not find any Official confirmation of one until we found it on this site.

By Christine0402

September 11, 2006 7:24 AM | Link to this

My brother lives in Spring Hill, FL (just north of Tampa) and he didn’t notice the rumbling, but his wife did. She was sitting on the couch and felt something move. She thought it was their kitten playing under the couch, but then it stopped and started again. She realized that a small kitten couldn’t cause that much commotion and figured it out what it was.

By tsimpson

September 11, 2006 7:25 AM | Link to this

I didn’t feel it myself, but my brother ran downstairs asking me if we just had an earthquake! We live just west of Atlanta.

By Rebecca

September 11, 2006 7:47 AM | Link to this

I live in Newnan. We werent even aware there had been an earthquake until we heard it on the news. Even our dogs didn’t bark or act nervous, so I don’t think they new it either.

By stevenhughes

September 11, 2006 7:57 AM | Link to this

I live in Murphy, NC about 20 miles north of Blairsville, GA and I felt the earthquake on Sunday. I was in the basement on the ground level watching T.V. and I just felt my recliner moving ever so slightly as if someone was behind me shaking the chair. It was not really not that significant of a tremor, but nonetheless it prompted me to ask my wife if she had felt anything upstairs.

By Jennifer

September 11, 2006 8:10 AM | Link to this

I live in Dacula and felt it between 11:00 and 11:30 am. I was upstairs and everything started shaking. The windows were vibrating. The noise got my attention. Then I could feel the house shaking. It was a scary experience. I can’t imagine going through a big one.

By Ralph

September 11, 2006 8:11 AM | Link to this

I was to drunk to recall….

By Debra

September 11, 2006 8:14 AM | Link to this

We have 2 kittens that sleep in a small pet taxi. I let them out in the morning and I was sitting at my computer when I heard the pet taxi (that was on my bed) vibrating like the kittens were in there playing, I had to look to see if they were in there, they weren’t. I then thought that my roommate might have left something on downstairs but she wasn’t home and nothing was on. I then thought it must’ve been a big truck going by and didn’t think anything else of it until I saw the news this morning and found out it was an earthquake. I live in Fairburn, Ga. which is about 20 miles south of Atlanta.

By Penny

September 11, 2006 8:16 AM | Link to this

I live in Pine Lake. I felt my apartment building “tremble.” This was nothing like some of the earthquakes I experienced when I lived in Los Angeles for a short period of time, but it was enough for me to recognize the small tremors of an earthquake. It was very weird.

By Deborah

September 11, 2006 8:18 AM | Link to this

I felt the tremor along with everybody else in church in Kennesaw. When I realized it had to be an earthquake, I said, “Lord, you are in control!”

By Shelly

September 11, 2006 8:37 AM | Link to this

I was sitting at my computer, and felt the house move. A quiet Sunday morning, all I heard was the occasional click of the mouse, and suddenly my chair, keyboard, and the blinds on the window shook. Immediately, I thought earthquake… ironically my fiance was in San Francisco and missed it. I awakened my sleeping teenager to ask if she felt it, and she looked at me like I had three heads, and went back to sleep. I’m glad to know I’m not crazy…

By Brett

September 11, 2006 8:38 AM | Link to this

My wife and I didn’t feel a thing here in Kennesaw, GA. Odd that it was felt just south and just north of us. I’m wondering if the quake had anything to do with that giant oil field discovery in the Gulf.

By 1stLadyBird/FalconCheerleader

September 11, 2006 8:42 AM | Link to this

Nope sorry folks did’nt feel a thing, nada, zilch, zero..did’nt feel a ting! :)

By Mary Walker

September 11, 2006 8:43 AM | Link to this

I live in Forsyth, GA 27 miles north of Macon and I was brushing my hair and saw the mirror move/shake and I wondered if it was an earthquake. Later I read on the internet that it was! Erie! You wonder-what is next??

By Cindy Pursley

September 11, 2006 8:46 AM | Link to this

My husband felt the tremor. His computer monitor rattled. I didn’t as I was in my car at the time. We are from the SF Bay Area so we are familiar with earthquakes. Both of us went through the 1989 Loma Prieta. Felt just like home yesterday.

By Dawn

September 11, 2006 8:57 AM | Link to this

I live in Sandy Springs and was sitting on my couch and the couch began to move and shake and I knew immediately what it was since I am from San Diego. I turned to the news to see if coverage was going to verify what I felt, and it did a couple of hours later.

By lelee

September 11, 2006 9:03 AM | Link to this

Yes! I was sitting at the computer and I could feel the whole house moving under me. Then I felt it a second time, didn’t think it could be a earthquake though… I live in Walton county.

By CBJones

September 11, 2006 9:04 AM | Link to this

I was in Church along with 4 other persons and we all felt the tremor. We though a company was blasting in the area. The quake actually made the building more. This was great to know we were a part of history feeling this quake right here in Atlanta. We also realize that God work is to be taken serious.

By Dwayne

September 11, 2006 9:21 AM | Link to this

I was asleep. I did not know anything about it until reading it from AJC and WSBTV at 9:20 AM on 9/11/2006.

By Jonathon

September 11, 2006 9:32 AM | Link to this

Was eatin’ fried chicken when the plate started rattlin’ spilled my sweet tea all over myself. thought them terrorist had come to south georgia. went an grabbed my shotgun and ran out the door but nutin’ was there.

By Norma

September 11, 2006 10:00 AM | Link to this

Yes. I did feel it. I live in Rex, GA and was in my bed and I felt my house vibrate. I did not know then what was happening, but now I know it was vibrations from the earthquake.

By beachdog

September 11, 2006 10:04 AM | Link to this

I live in South Walton County.

I thought something had happened but it was during Meet the Press with Veep Cheney so I logically assumed that God was sending a bolt from heaven since Cheney was obviously lying.

By Sonja B

September 11, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this

The bed started moving and I looked at my husband who was still asleep to see if he was tossing and turning. When I realized that he wasn’t, I thought I was losing it or something. Glad to know that I’m not crazy. I thought it may have been an earthquake, but with so much construction and stuff going on these days in Gwinnett, how can you tell???

By Kathy

September 11, 2006 10:11 AM | Link to this

Well, we have a rock quary near our home in Coweta County and they fire dynamite during the week regularly, I just thought that was what it was…then I remembered it was Sunday! Could it have been???

By Andy

September 11, 2006 10:16 AM | Link to this

Yes, I did feel it. I was laying perfectly still in bed, awake. I felt it once and heard a flock of birds outside leave a tree; I felt a second tremor which shook the lampshade. I got up to get a glass of water to put on my nightstand to see if I could witness further movement, but nothing more happened.

By rhody

September 11, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this

It was felt in Fairburn, Georgia. I just thought that it was a big truck going down the street, but it lasted too long and caused too much rattling. Did not know what had happened till I watched the news this morning.

By Andy

September 11, 2006 10:22 AM | Link to this

Yes, I did feel it. I was laying perfectly still in bed, awake. I felt it once and heard a flock of birds outside leave a tree; I felt a second tremor which shook the lampshade. I got up to get a glass of water to put on my nightstand to see if I could witness further movement, but nothing more happened. To BearsFan: I mentioned my feeling an earthquake to relatives before I saw or heard any news confirming it. So, I guess you’re wrong.

By Kim

September 11, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this

My daughter asked me later if there had been “an earthquake this morning” and I didn’t know what she was talking about, but I told her to look on CNN.com and sure enough, there had been one! She felt it lying in her bed.

By jenny

September 11, 2006 11:10 AM | Link to this

YES! I live in South Fulton, I felt my house shake. I initially thought it was an airplane.

By julie

September 11, 2006 11:15 AM | Link to this

Every Sunday morning feels like an earthquake during praise and worship at Griffin First Assembly of God so although the catwalk shook no one thought it was strange.

By Pam Hendrix

September 11, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this

I live in Madisonville, LA, directly on the Northshore of lake Pontchartrain, 24 miles north of New Orleans. I felt the tremor yesterday morning while awake but still lying in bed. We live in a raised house 10.5 feet off of the ground backed up to a natural swamp area and our entire house shook for several seconds. We thought our foundation was shifting, or that there was construction or something nearby that caused the “rumble”. Very unusual feeling, but kinda of neat in a way!

By Tammy Nolan

September 11, 2006 11:43 AM | Link to this

We felt 2 tremors in Covington,Ga. About 30 miles SE of Atlanta.

By johnmcov

September 11, 2006 11:49 AM | Link to this

My wife and I had returned from early church and were watching TV when we felt our chairs shaking. We looked at each other and shouted “earthquake”. There was no doubt in our mind as to what was happening because we remembered the quake some three years ago which was much more pronounced than this one. We live in Hiram,Ga.

By Diane

September 11, 2006 11:50 AM | Link to this

I was sitting in church in Villa Rica, Ga., and thought I heard a rattle or rumble like the a/c units outside were shaking. I asked my son ‘Can that be thunder?’ It was over in 4 seconds and I had no idea until seeing your report this a.m.!

By Jeanie Williams-West

September 11, 2006 12:46 PM | Link to this

I live in the fault line in Louisiana, I did feel the vibrations of this quake. However I did notice abnormal behavior of animals in my neighborhood.

By bob

September 11, 2006 1:06 PM | Link to this

Yes, I felt it. I farted at exactly 11 AM while I was sitting at my desk. I didn’t think much about it, because I just thought it was a prolonged butt rattle.

By Liz

September 11, 2006 1:15 PM | Link to this

We totally felt it! Having lived in places where they occur frequently, there’s no mistaking that unsettling feeling. So glad not to be going crazy!

By Shan Reynolds

September 11, 2006 1:21 PM | Link to this

I felt it in Jonesboro, and like most, I though that it was just a construction crew riding big trucks through our neighborhood!

By Susan haught

September 11, 2006 1:29 PM | Link to this

I was sitting in my recliner when I noticed that it started shaking from left to right. I knew then I had just experienced an Earthquake.

By Susan haught

September 11, 2006 1:29 PM | Link to this

I was sitting in my recliner when I noticed that it started shaking from left to right. I knew then I had just experienced an Earthquake.

By Rob

September 11, 2006 1:30 PM | Link to this

I didn’t feel it. My headboard was shaking but it was because of something going on in the bed.

By desiree James

September 11, 2006 1:46 PM | Link to this

I felt 3 tremors yesterday. I live in Powder Springs.I was waiting to listen to WSB AM 750 in the morning to hear if an Earthquake had occured. No one on the station seemed to have experienced it!!!

By jenny

September 11, 2006 4:06 PM | Link to this

I felt the earthquake too. I had just watched Exorcist a few weeks ago and thought maybe my bed was possessed. LOL…I learned later from a friend what it was. I am glad I am not inhabited by a demon force :o)

By jenny

September 11, 2006 4:13 PM | Link to this

I woke up out of my sleep to my bed shaking. At first I thought it was my roommate playing a joke on me. Then when she was not there…I thought maybe I was possessed. I had watched the Exorcist a few weeks ago. Thank God my body is not inhabited by a demon force :o)

By Jennifer

September 11, 2006 5:24 PM | Link to this

I felt it. I was in Bible Study at church in Buckhead when I felt my chair shake. I thought the people in the floor below me must have been having a really great time! When the second tremor hit, I thought there must be construction going on.

By George

September 11, 2006 5:31 PM | Link to this

I have a large collection of bobble heads, so this earthquake was a good thing for me.

By linda

September 11, 2006 5:38 PM | Link to this

i live in clayton county and i was lying in bed when my bed shake a little it woke me up i layed there and my bed shake again than again but this time a little harder that when i got up the first thing that came to my mind was an earthquake somewhere because this has happen before i’m not quite sure about the time i’m thinking somewhere around 11 am sunday

By rita salcines

September 11, 2006 6:18 PM | Link to this

Yes! I was in bed and i felt the bed shake about 3 times. i woke my husband up and asked if he felt the bed shake. he looked at me like i had 3 heads. i explained that it felt like tremors and said maybe it was an earthquake. we live in miami beach and i thought immediately of a tsunami!!!! then i was watching the news that evening and it mentioned the quake. I was so happy to know i wasnt crazy yet. i said to my husband, “i told you so!!!” rita salcines

By D Knaga

September 11, 2006 7:29 PM | Link to this

I was laying in bed speaking with my sister in Chicago at exactly that time. I told her I think we’re having an earthquake becuse the bed shook for about a minute alont with my dresser mirrors were swaying back and forth!

By Rhonda

September 11, 2006 8:07 PM | Link to this

I live in Cherokee County and was laying in the bed and felt it bounce 3 times. I thought my teen-agers were coming down the stairs but I realized that had never happened before……later in the day when I read the paper and saw the time I realized what I had felt was the earthquake.

By joe

September 11, 2006 9:04 PM | Link to this

We were finishing breakfast at 11 am on Sunday just prior to heading to the Braves game. 4 kids & 2 adults felt nothing. Didn’t even know anything happened till I heard about it on the radio this am on the way to work. We live in an old farmhouse in Alpharetta that doesn’t even rattle when big thunder rolls through the area,so maybe these tremors were so small we couldn’t feel them.

By southerfriedrice

September 11, 2006 10:12 PM | Link to this

Yeah i felt it, felt like my wife getting out the bed.

By Rebecca

September 11, 2006 10:25 PM | Link to this

I felt in too! I’m in Dekalb County and felt very slight, but definite vibrations. My boyfriend doesn’t believe me, but I definitely felt it! I had no idea what it was until I read the AJC!