Devon Man in Skyscraper as Quake Shakes Philly

Jim Dobner got off the train Tuesday evening with quite an answer for the classic question 'anything unusual happen at work today?'

26 stories up in a glass building Dobner says he felt the shaking for a second or two and that was enough for him. "I pretty much led the group from the 26th floor down to the street."

Dobner and his co-workers in Two Liberty Place were not alone. Buildings all over Center City and even some along the Main Line were evacuated as occupants flooded out on to the streets.

Dobner said he walked around Center City "for about an hour" before finally going back inside. Thousands of others called it a day after the tremor hit at 1:50 p.m. and headed for the expressways and mass transit, starting the rush hour more than 90 minutes earlier than on a regular Tuesday.

SEPTA briefly suspended service on all of its regional rail lines, including the Paoli-Thorndale line.  But by the time Dobner arrived back at the Paoli train Station he said his train was only about ten minutes late and he didn't even "think it was related to the eathquake."

To hear Jim Dobner tell the story of how the earthquake rocked his world, in his own words, click on the clip.