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Witness location : Highland (USA) (1 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 36 min

light shaking and rumbling for about 2 -5 seconds

Witness location : Highland (USA) (1 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 22 min

Heard an explosion

Witness location : Highland (USA) (2 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 454 min

Lasted 10-15 seconds

Witness location : Clarksville (USA) (3 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 18 min

Woke us up. Items rattling in house. Felt ground shaking- felt like it moved in a wave from SW to NE.

Witness location : Highland (USA) (4 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 29 min

Was sleeping and woke me up

Witness location : Ashton-Sandy Spring (USA) (6 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 20 min

A loud boom and our house shaking woke both my husband and I up in the middle of the night.

Witness location : Ashton (USA) (6 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 29 min

Sounded and felt like a loud thud

Witness location : Riverside (USA) (6 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 18 min

Fucking scary

Witness location : Columbia (USA) (7 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 20 min

Heard a rumble/bang and then my house shook.

Witness location : Fulton (USA) (7 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 22 min

Shaking awoke me and my dog

Witness location : Columbia (USA) (7 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 14 min

Felt a distant boom

Witness location : Columbia (USA) (7 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 30 min

Heard a boom and the house rattled as if there was an explosion nearby

Witness location : Spencerville (USA) (8 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 626 min

Heard a loud ba-boom.

Witness location : Riverside (USA) (8 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 27 min

House shook a little with a rumbling noise. Something like a cup fell in our basement

Witness location : Scaggsville (USA) (8 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 1089 min

Heard and felt a bang like a distant explosion.

Witness location : Glenelg (USA) (9 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 15 min

My dog bark from the noise/feeling

Witness location : Columbia (USA) (9 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 49 min

It sounded like an explosion and the whole house shook

Witness location : North Laurel (USA) (9 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 15 min

my bed shook 😟 huge rumbling noise like our roof was being pulled off

Witness location : Columbia (USA) (9 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 31 min

Heard a rumbling, heard slight shaking of windows. Felt very lSlight movement

Witness location : Columbia (USA) (9 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 18 min

Felt a rumbling. Could sense it in the basement below.

Witness location : Columbia (USA) (9 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 16 min

At first I thought a tree fell. it woke me up out of my sleep!

Witness location : Columbia (USA) (9 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 71 min

It woke me up and felt like an explosion that shook the whole house.

Witness location : Columbia (USA) (9 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 600 min

Big boom, house shook

Witness location : Columbia (USA) (9 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 456 min

Sounded/felt like a large, loud truck going by that shook the house briefly. Only about 5 seconds at most. Probably would not have woken me up had I not already been awake!

Witness location : Cloverly (USA) (9 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 20 min

Felt like an explosion

Witness location : Columbia (USA) (11 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 14 min

Sounded like loud thunder. Very little shaking.

Witness location : Riverside (USA) (11 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 16 min

Heard a weird rumbling. kind of like a deep thunder sound that made the house move. Figured it wasn't thunder because there's no storms around. In columbia maryland.

Witness location : Colesville (USA) (13 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 71 min

I heard it too - thought I was a big plane taking off or a low running truck (maybe like a slow explosion you see in movies)

Witness location : Silver Spring (USA) (14 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 30 min

Light rumbling and house was shaking at 2:10 am on 8/4/2021. Everyone else was asleep and didn't wake up. Wasn't sure if it was a quake or a truck at first, but it's 2am and there weren't any trucks nearby.

Witness location : Silver Spring (USA) (16 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 17 min

Woken by loud boom and house shaking almost as if someone crashed into our house or a jet took off from our roof.

Witness location : White Oak (USA) (16 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 19 min

Rumbling sound, followed by house rattling. Thought it was thunder or an explosion in the distance.

Witness location : Kemp Mill (USA) (18 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 24 min

Felt more like a sonic boom than other earthquakes I’ve experienced

Witness location : North Bethesda (USA) (18 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 2120 min

I was getting ready for work, I work overnight and I heard this strange sound there wasn't any Earth vibration just the sound I immediately check this site but it was too early. I live SSW of the epicenter.

Witness location : Rockville (USA) (19 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 34 min

Heard it more than felt it.

Witness location : Silver Spring (USA) (20 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 27 min

Very strong rumbling and deep booming sounds

Witness location : Kensington (USA) (21 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 33 min

Small rumbling

Witness location : Kensington (USA) (21 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 13 min

Noticeable rumble in Kensington, MD

Witness location : Derwood (USA) (21 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 73 min

Felt vibrations coming from the ground like a very large truck driving by along with an odd rumbling sound in the air like muffled thunder

Witness location : Silver Spring (USA) (22 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 28 min

Heard what sounded like thunder rumbling in the distance, but the rumble went on longer than a typical thunder rumble (also, it’s not raining here). I heard it but didn’t really feel shaking, so I wasn’t even sure it was an earthquake at first. There is no apparent damage to the building I am in.

Witness location : Silver Spring (USA) (22 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 21 min

I am a few blocks from the silver Spring Maryland and there was a deep rumble sound

Witness location : Silver Spring (USA) (22 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 52 min

Heard rumbling sound that lasted for about 6 seconds maybe. Heard the window rattle a little bit and felt rumbling from sound through the couch I was sitting on but no differently from how one feels thunder.

Witness location : (USA) (23 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 30 min

Just felt light shaking and a low rumbling sound. Actually thought it was thunder at first but the rumbling lasted too long and was next accompanied by light shaking.

Witness location : Germantown (USA) (29 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 21 min

Big rumble from outside, minor vibration inside, all over in a matter of seconds

Witness location : Pasadena (USA) (35 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 70 min

Laying in bed, looked up at ceiling fan rocking and heard house pop.