East Coast Fiegs Rocked by Earthquake

On August 23 just before 2:00 p.m., Lisa Fieg thought she was having a dizzy spell at her desk at work.  Then she noticed that the items on her desk were feeling dizzy, too and, much to her surprise, she and her co-workers were advised to evacuate the building due to the effects of a 5.8 earthquake that struck near Mineral, VA slightly affecting communities up and down the eastern seaboard of the U.S.

Lisa did eventually go back into her office but all employees were released from work for the day.

Diana Fieg, sitting at her desk in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, thought it felt like a muscle twitch in her legs and didn't even know about the earthquake until Bill Doyle came home and asked if she had felt it.  "No!" she said.  Then, "Yes!" she said, remembering the strange sensation of earlier in the day.

All is well and no one was injured - in our immediate family or in anyone else's.

The last earthquake of that magnitude struck the East in 1897.