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Social Media: Earthquake in western Massachusetts

Tuesday night around 7:15 p.m.

Updated: Wednesday, 17 Oct 2012, 10:44 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 17 Oct 2012, 10:44 AM EDT

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) - Viewers sent in their reaction to the earthquake from Facebook, Twitter & Report it on WWLP.com.

Report It

Agawam:

I felt the earthquake just as we were getting ready to start Bible study at my church. We had just read our opening scripture when the building started shaking I could hear the door next to me rattle as well as the clock on the wall. -Victoria St.Dennis

Yeah huh… I am NOT crazy! Hmmmm… just another ‘shake-up’ in October for western Mass?? Let’s hope that is the end of it and no repeats of last October! -Lenore

Becket:

We felt the quake, thought it was the wind but the house actually shook, which it does not even on the windiest of days and my dog went nuts.

Brimfield:

My wife called about tremors house shake. I answered cell in my car in Worcester, I felt the car shaking there at same time. -John Tremblay

Chicopee:

My son was sleeping and he came downstairs and asked me if I felt the house shake. I didn't. I thought he was kiding. My sister called me from Maine at about 8:30 and said they had an earthquake. -Linda Jefferson

East Longmeadow:

We felt it here! -Jennifer Raschilla

Hadley: My car shook violently from the earthquake while I sat in the Trader Joe's parking lot. -Neal Katz

Springfield:

I was in my den on the 2nd floor when I felt my house shake and it lasted about 10 seconds and it really shook me up a little. -Nancy Fournier

It was slow and rumbling quake, not a sharp shake. -John T Durning

Westfield:

I just felt a tremor -Shelby

Since we open every Report It email, here is a list of additional towns 22News received reports from:

Turners Falls, Leyden, Belchertown, Indian Orchard, Longmeadow, Greenfield, Ludlow, Orange, Southwick, West Springfield, Feeding Hills, Monson, Montague, Millers Falls, South Hadley, Holyoke, Southampton, Palmer, Easthampton, Three Rivers, Warren, Deerfield, Charlemont, Shelburne Falls, Wilbraham, Colrain, Warren, Northfield, Granby, Florence, Ware, Northampton, Amherst, Ware, Hampden, Erving, Wheelwright, Leverett, Shutesbury, Orange, Montgomery, Heath, Conway, Boston, South Deerfield,

Twitter.com/WWLP22News

Just felt earthquake in Springfield -rncarterjm

Did you guys feel that earthquake? I felt it here on Chicopee Street! My couch was shaking! -Bella_Sonrisa

So did we just have a small quake? Ware -RbDiane

Felt it here in South Deerfield -ikechillz

I didnt feel anything in Belchertown from the earthquake.. although my parents live a few mins away and they felt it in Amherst!! -LadyyxVee

Felt it in Easthampton -kotoannep

Facebook.com/WWLP22News

Felt the quake in West Spfld for about 10 seconds. Long enough that I asked my friend what was that.... and he said just a truck going by. My response was that must've been one big truck. -Elaine Youngs-Casey

Felt in Agawam -Linda Cove

Felt it like crazy in Greenfield area - David Roff

So that's what I felt in my apartment in Westfield... bouncy aftershocks. -Vic George

I felt it! At 7:14 pm, (yes I looked at the time!) my bed shook side to side, the mirror on my dresser was shaking and I heard a rumble coming from the ground. Weird but cool! -Cheryl Cassidy

I have friends up in Maine and they said they felt it too!!! - Thomas E. Kingston

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