The Post heard from people around Rowan County who felt the quaking Tuesday afternoon.
Patsy Rogers was sitting at her desk at Budís Wheel Alignment on Old Concord Road and saw a stack of books shaking. A mechanic sitting at a desk behind Rogers felt his desk vibrate and thought his fan was causing hit.
ěIt was just a small shaking … a 30-second quiver and then it was gone,î Rogers said. ěBut it was weird.î
Ron Boss, whose family lives on Kluttz Road between Granite Quarry and Faith, was sitting in his den when the chandeliers started rattling and ěit sounded like my pool table upstairs was rolling down the hall.î
At first, he thought his daughter might be moving something on the second floor, but decorative bottles atop the kitchen cabinets were rattling and he heard noise inside the drywall of his familyís brick home. He then suspected a broken water pipe.
ěI thought somethingís got to be busted in this house for this to be happening,î he said.
Rowan residents living elsewhere felt it too.
Christopher Morris of Salisbury works as a flight attendant for Continental Airlines. He was sitting on a couch watching TV in a Newark, N.J. house he shares with other Continental employees when he saw a table shaking and ěfelt like my knees were moving back and forth.î
The fellow flight attendant sitting next to him said she hadnít shaken the table ó she thought he did it ó so he went upstairs to ask the pilots had been moving furniture. The furniture moved, but on its own, they told him. Another pilot out by the pool told Morris he ěfelt like somebody was tugging his lounge chair.î
People from High Rock Lake, Huntersville and along the Yadkin River called to tell the Post theyíd felt the earth tremble.