
All along the East Coast, from Georgia to New England, people weren't sure for a second what they were feeling. And then they were.
"I thought a big truck next door had backed into our building by accident, and I went over to chew someone out," Mr. Osborn wrote in an email.
The quake was felt shortly after 2 p.m. in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., said Jim Osborn, circulation manager at the Martha's Vineyard Times.