The East Coast is shaken from an earthquake that people felt from Georgia to as far north as Rhode Island and the New York City area.
Shortly before 2 p.m., reports of the earth moving came in across the eastern seaboard.
"It was so large, that we were able to feel it here," said Julian Gray, curator and resident geologist at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville.
The quake originated in northern central Virginia and reached a 5.9 magnitude, Gray said.
CBS News is reporting the quake could be felt in Washington, D.C., where the White House and Pentagon were evacuated. Buildings there are damaged, and numerous reports are coming in of minor injuries.
People in the metro Atlanta area report feeling tremors, however.
"I felt a type of vibration but then thought maybe I was imagining it," said Mickey Leist, who works on the 12th floor of an office building near the Cobb Galleria. "I tried to simulate it by moving my chair a little and I was able to make it feel similar so I figured I probably had just caused my chair to move or something."
Jim Duguay felt the tremor from the fourth floor of his Kennesaw office building.
"The building just casually rocked back and forth for three to five seconds," Duguay said.
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