The quake was felt in Cleveland.....

[WCGreen]

The Jac, the field where the Cleveland Indians play, was shaking, you could see it in the cameras, and the guy at bat, Shin Choo smacked a three run homer in the bottom of the 9th to win the game...

[Maccagirl]

1. Did you just think the cameraman was having a bad day?

Congrats on the win-Go Tribe!

[WCGreen]

2. No they said we are having an earth quake folks...

With all the bad stuff happening, I wanted to point out something a little different...

[PeaceNikki]

3. Reportedly in Milwaukee, too

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/128261613.html

[PurityOfEssence]

5. By whom? Princess Winifred upon her mattress?

A six-pointer being felt that far away? Come now. Now this is getting silly.

Is there a seismologist in the house?

[jeff47]

7. Not a seismologist, but the difference is the plates.

I grew up in CA, and like many geeky CA-ians spent a lot of time learning about seismology.

The west coast is littered with fault lines, which prevent the energy from traveling as far. In addition, the near constant 1 and 2 earthquakes on the west coast keep the plate hot. Hot plate is more flexible, which again dampens the energy.

The part of the plate under the eastern US doesn't have a lot of faults, and is cold. So it's stiff. Which means when the earthquake happened, the energy was transmitted a long distance - it rang like a bell.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. That was some distance!

I wondered if you all felt it...

Congrats on the Indians' win!

[Synicus Maximus]

6. We also felt it in Atlanta

[MorningGlow]

8. Rochester, NY, too

Freaky.

[Hosnon]

9. And Augusta, Georgia. The scope of this is amazing. nt.