Update 5:05
NPR's Two-Way has some video of the quake striking Washington D.C. You can see security rush the roof of the White House when the quake strikes.
2:48 p.m.
They're calling it a 5.9 magnitude earthquake. The Associated Press reports on the damage near the epicenter:
The quake, the largest in Virginia since May 5, 1897, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, shook buildings and employees were ordered outside across Richmond and other cities in Virginia. Within minutes, Richmond police began receiving calls about possible property damage. Those calls included a possible stairwell collapse along North First Street downtown, a possible wall collapse along East Broad Street in the city's East End and a possible wall collapse at a structure along Hioaks Road in South Richmond.
2:36 p.m.
NPR's the Two-Way reports on the epicenter:
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake rattled the east coast of the United States, today. The tremor was felt at least as far north as New York and at least as far south as Virginia. The United States Geological Survey puts the epicenter nine miles south of Mineral, Virginia and happened 6 kilometers deep. At NPR headquarters in Washington, the building swayed for a few seconds and buildings in the neighborhood were evacuated.
No word yet on how far northwest the quake was felt, but if our Michigan Radio Facebook fans are any gauge, it was felt in the Mitten state.
Fans reported they felt the quake in Birmingham, Battle Creek, Bay City, Sterling Heights, Troy, Ann Arbor, Flint, Lansing, Ypsilanti, and Grand Rapids.
And one report of "cats going crazy" in Muskegon.
From the reports, it seems that people who felt it most in Michigan were in the upper level floors of buildings. Many of those on the ground reported not noticing the quake.
2:09 p.m.
Twitter is exploding with reports of an earthquake. The USGS shows an epicenter in northern Virginia in the last hour.
The Detroit Free Press tweeted that they felt their building shake:
"We felt our building shake in downtown #Detroit just moments ago."
Really? Did anyone else in Michigan feel it?
The Washington Post tweets that it was a 5.8 magnitude quake.
