Did You Feel Virginia's Earthquake?

People throughout southeast Michigan — including in Fenton — are reporting that they felt the ground move after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake stuck about a mile below ground around Louisa, VA, at 1:51 Tuesday afternoon.

The Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division tweeted just after 4 p.m. that there have been no reports or injuries or damage here.

"We're monitoring the situation following VA earthquake," the tweet read.

In Fenton, Lisa Oberle Hatfield said, "I was laying in my recliner here in Fenton and it started to sway at about 1:55."

On the Fenton Patch Facebook page, Lindy Hancock said she felt it in Novi while she was eating lunch in her car. Janet Mitchell Beilharz said, "I did in Livonia. I work on the 3rd floor of an office building and the signs on the ceiling were swaying."

Also locally, Cindie Reaume DeWolf said on Hartland Patch's Facebook page that she felt the quake here in Hartland for temblor that was centered about 100 miles southeast of Washington, D.C.

In Detroit, Lisa Hart Beatty of Hartland said the building she was in was moving.

"I'm working in Detroit and am on the 10th floor of an office building — We definitely were swaying here!!!" she posted on Facebook.

Linda Bowen of Hartland compared the feeling to being on the water in a comment to Hartland Patch's activity stream.

"In my office building here in Ann Arbor, it felt like being on board a rocking boat — no violent rocking but definite movement," she wrote.

Residents from other area Patches ranged also chimed into sites with reports of movement.

Nancy Perkins told West Bloomfield Patch she did "here in the White Lake/Waterford area. I knew what it was because many years ago there was an Earthquake in Kentucky and we felt it here in Oakland County."

Karen Anderson Dubrinsky of Huntington Woods reported that she "was at the computer and I felt trembling but thought maybe I just needed to get up and move around a little. It was ever so slight, but weird! Then I noticed everyone mentioning the earthquake."

Mark Reaume wrote that he was working near 12 Mile and Telegraph roads "and our building swayed for 60-90 seconds. ... The blinds were swaying back and forth."

are reporting experiences much closer to the scene.

The U.S. Geological Service has a website for people to report what they felt and experienced. The reports help researchers evaluate the quakes effects.