WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Did you feel the earthquake? That's the question people have been asking all day.
It's one thing to see snow in the spring here in NEPA, but an earthquake is something no one was expecting Friday morning. Many of you watching at home probably thought the same thing: what was that?
Maybe you felt nothing at all. 28/22 News spoke with some people passing through downtown Wilkes-Barre who felt the earthquake, here's what they had to say.
"I was sitting in my recliner, and all of a sudden I felt this little, and I say 'Oh my god is that another earthquake?," said Mary Rose Rosiak from Wilkes-Barre.
If you felt like Mary RRose Friday morning, you aren't alone.
"I was in my living room and my walls just started shaking, my TV started shaking, mirror, movies everything on the wall was just moving around," says Alex Goss from Pittston.
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"I was at work, and I felt the building shake, it didn't shake it was more like a sway, but things in the building were shaking a little bit," added Michelle Rakowski from Nanticoke.
Many people across Luzerne County shared a similar experience earthquake experience Friday morning.
"I just felt it. Like I thought it was just wind, usually, it's windy in the area, but no," stated Annemarie Manangan from Nanticoke.
"We were just kinda sitting there and we just felt the building shake a little bit, and we looked at each other like 'Oh the building's gonna fall down but we just thought people were walking around and we looked at our phone thirty minutes later and there was an earthquake," explained Kayleigh Taylor, a student at Wilkes University.
"I was just sitting at the table and I was in a class online and then everything around me started to shake a little bit and then I was talking to my friend and his car outside was shaking," added Madison Finley Dallas.
Madison is a first-timer,
"I don't think I've ever felt one in my life," stated Madison Finley from Dallas.
But others can recall feeling the effects back in 2011 when an earthquake hit Virginia.
"That one that happened maybe it was like seven or eight years ago in Virginia it was a little bump, it felt like somebody shook the back of my chair," said Nick Bonk from Forty-Fort.
Now if you didn't feel the earthquake, don't feel too left out. Plenty of people 28/22 News spoke with say they didn't know what happened until they got on social media.
For the people who did experience it, it was an interesting start to their day.
