Lindenhurst Residents All Shook up Following Quake

The effects of Tuesday afternoon’s 5.8-magnitude East Coast had residents talking about what they experienced, with many posting their reactions online on Facebook and Twitter.

A number of residents shared their experience on the Lindenhurst Patch Facebook page on August 23, like Kim Sullivan-Hofmann. She posted her initial reaction to the quake: “What? Huh? Really, no way, must be my imagination – NOPE.”

John Scalice posted that it “felt like someone jumping in my house, then I noticed a large mirror on the wall beginning to shake. All the neighbors came out into the street on their cell phones. Ended at 1:54 p.m. in Lindenhurst.”

“At first I thought it was my dog behind my chair till I saw the walls and drapes moving. Hubby said that it was an earthquake since he's been in a couple of them in Cali[fornia]...my poor dogs are so scared right now,” posted Tina Lanyon-Greene after it happened.

Jackie Connelly Fornuff’s pup also seemed to disappear when it happened. “I thought my dog was under my desk scratching herself. When I looked around and saw she was not there, I was thinking it was my imagination. My husband called and said: ‘Did you feel that?’ Then the news came on and said we had an earthquake. A little weird,” she posted.

Many Lindenhurst residents like Jennifer Wilbur were at work when the quake hit.

“I am at work at Farmingdale and the buildings were evacuated for a few minutes until we got the all clear. I really want to go home to check to see if my antique china fell off the wall,” she posted.

An employee from First Choice Settlement posted that it was felt in Melville, too. “Just a single wall shaking. Nothing feel. It lasted about 30 seconds,” posted the employee.

“Our building at work shook,” posted Angelina Capalbo. “It was very bizarre, my first tremor experience.”

Linda Wilson McParland decided to post some lyrics to the Carole King song, I Feel the Earth Move, and shared that, “In Lindenhurst Village – whole house violently trembled – it’s 82 years old and on an old foundation.”