An earthquake just struck the East Coast measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale, according to Reuters. That’s not an especially large magnitude compared to your average California quake, but it’s decidedly unusual for the Eastern Seaboard; the quake’s epicenter was in Virginia, but it could be felt from Washington, DC, up to Toronto. Of course, that includes the Twitter-happy population of celebrity types in New York City (not to mention the North Carolina set of a certain young-adult dystopic-thriller adaptation). Below, a sampling of celebrity responses to the East Coast Earthquake:
Danny Zuker: Oh God. What did you do to her? RT @chrisbrown Please pray for Virginia.
Judah Friedlander: Sorry for the earthquake NYC, I just did a couple of intense jumping jacks.
Bethenny Frankel: I just felt the earth shake at lunch!
Elizabeth Banks: um, earthquake in north carolina? it’s nice to feel at home but please, don’t go overboard.
John Hodgman: This guy in the cafe and I agree that we liked the earthquake when it first started. But now it’s like, the wrong people are into it.
Marlee Matlin: They felt the #Earthquake as far as Des Plaines, IL?! That’s practically my home town!
Donnie Wahlberg: If they felt it all the way down south and up here in New York too… Then it must’ve been big somewhere! I hope everyone is ok!!!!
Damon Lindelof: Is the Earthquake in Mineral Virginia, an alleged “gold-mining town” related to the island? Hmmm. What date is it today?
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi: Omg earthquakeeeee
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi: Waahhhhhhh
Carson Daly: Things are rollin in NYC now huh? Welcome to cali.
Alec Baldwin: They tell me there’s an earthquake here…. http://yfrog.com/h4lseqmj
Jill Zarin: Just felt earthquake in office on 5th avenue!!! Holy crap!!
Ice-T: As long as everyone’s ok…… Keep it moovin.. The EARTH is gonna do whatever the f— it wants to do.
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Why do all of these tweets sound like a caricature of what one might think those “celebrities” might tweet?
Click the links, they’re real.
The tweets are real, the earthquake…not so much. Just another lazy attemp at the government to take your mind off of what is really happening. They are raping dogs people. The government has been hiding it for years. THEY ARE RAPING DOGS!
to say not one, but two completely idiotic things.
It’s all Obama’s fault.
Blame Canada
@Republicans: the center of the earthquake was in Rep. Eric Cantor’s district. I think we can blame the Republicans and chalk this up to a little thing called karma.
As a Virginian, trust me the earth quake was real and it was scary. The closest I have ever felt to anything like that was turbulence on an airplane. And to Meg: trust me not everybody living in Cantor’s district votes for that twit, I vote against him every chance I get, but everyone else keeps sending him back.
vote for Cthulhu in 2012
It’s all Eric Cantor’s fault. He wants to get rid of funds for Disaster Preparedness, so his district becomes the epicenter of an earthquake. Perfect.
Big deal, we get huge earthquakes all the time in California.
When was the last time Cali had a 5.8?
Well, the East Coast doesn’t, so it’s a bigger deal.
Don’t Californians also put on heavy coats, scarves, and gloves as soon as temperatures drop to sixty degrees? Everybody has some sort of weather occurrance to freak out over. Virginia’s is earthquakes and California’s is mild weather.
You probably have real celebrities in CA, too. This is a pretty weak list.
Earthquakes are a “weather occurrence”? That’s news to me…
it’s probably just a foreshock.. happens all the time in california
As a New Yorker, the fear of a terrorist attack took over. Not so much the earthquake. So, “Big deal?” Yeah, it was. Don’t mess with a New Yorker when it comes to fear like that. No one on the East Coast is used to to earthquakes. WE DON’T HAVE THEM. So, California, something for you to think about. Don’t you find it strange that the East Coast had a 5.8 quake?
I was wondering how long it was going to take a New Yorker to make it all about them. Of course, making it 20 minutes in a black out a few years ago was considered “heroic” there so I’m not surprised.
Is it just me or is Twitter the home of every Hollywood D-lister?
I thought that was Bravo
or Dancing With the Stars
more like palm springs
These tweets are real and they’re fabulous!
Oh, man. That Danny Zuker is too much!
That tweet was hilarious!
The epicenter was close to us here in Richmond, VA, and it was pretty interesting sitting in Panera when it happened. Everyone kind of looked at each other like “hmm is that shaking a giant truck going down the road?” And then a couple seconds later…”ah, earthquake.” Then, it was over.
In Raleigh it went on for about three minutes actually, and varied in intensity—it would get stronger for about 10-20 seconds and then fade, and then return for 10-20 seconds.
I’m sure it wasn’t three minutes… but having lived in California my entire life, I know it probably *seemed* like three minutes. They can be scary. Although I find that if it’s daytime, they don’t seem nearly as bad.
I don’t know why, but Snooki’s tweets crack me up: I’m imagining her panicking, running around in circles like a cartoon character.
On a serious note, I hope that no one was seriously hurt, and I’m glad that it wasn’t as big as I initially thought that it was.
That’s what she said.
Excellence.
LOL! Love it.
lmao!
zing!
do you think she pronounces all those extra e’s at the end of Earthquake..eeee?
I commented about that too. Odd that she would put in extras of the letter that is silent.
Interesting to look at the names attached to those tweets and note how few of those people are actually celebrities…
LOL!!
That’s exactly what I thought! I don’t know who the first 4 people are…
I love me some Damon Lindelof. Sigh.
Loved Damon’s post and wonder how many fans will be trying to link it up somehow to Lost
Yeah, it was pretty strange! I’m in Cambridge, MA and I felt it. I didn’t know what it was at first, so my reaction was embarrassingly similar to Snooki’s.
I love John Hodgman.
I guess they felt the earth move under their feet.
What did Carole King have to say?
The epicenter was 10 miles from my house, so kind of laughing at all these tweets.
would think an earthquake is entertainment, like if a celebrity 3,000 miles away tweets it makes it legitimate, how messed up
Damon Lindlelof has gas. Bring back Lost.
Thank the good Lord above that Snooki is okay. Whew!! Never mind those who aren’t celebrities, as long as Snooki and whatever a Bethany Frankel is are okay then I’ll sleep well.
Snooki is dead. So sad.
check Gilbert Gottfrieds. F’n hillarious
I’m in VA I felt my kitchen floor move! Scared the heck out of me! I’m in S.E. VA. My sister works in DC on the 10th floor, scared her more than me.
WTF has happened to the state of news in this country?
Errr…are you basing that off of an entertainment news website or…?
Huh?…Oh…NEWS. I thought you said NUDES and I was gonna be all like “wha?” But now I’m like, “Oh I get it…news”.
I know it’s an entertainment news website, but really, just the fact that we now we have entire articles dedicated to the pointless tweets of D list celebrities. I mean just, WTF is the point of telling us this? I feel dumber now. It’s not like any of those people are even A-list celebrities. I mean Snooki? Who the f*** cares what she says? This is just dumbing down our entertainment news to new low levels.
He he. “dumbing down our entertainment news” – didn’t know that was possible!
Yeah…on second thought, you might be right about that
I think the point was to connect the earthquake to the entertainment world since this IS an entertainment site. I know many of you don’t think the earthquake itself is news but for those of us that aren’t used to feeling the ground shake it was kind of freaky. The local ABC station around here was reporting viewer tweets on the news right after it happened so I don’t see where EW is any different.
That’s it exactly… it’s a way to bring what’s happening outside the world of entertainment on to an entertainment Website.
God Snooki is an imbecile.
I love how it’s the last (silent) “e” that she repeats. Like she pronounced it earthqua-key.