Tremors From Earthquake Felt in Metro Atlanta?

A major earthquake hit an area northwest of Richmond, VA, just before 2 p.m. today, according to reports from the U.S. Geological Survey.

"This is major news," said Julian C. Gray, curator at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville. "The White House and the Pentagon have been evacuated and there are reports of interruption to infrastructure.

"A magnitude 5.9 is huge and very rare in these intercontinental locations where there are no know major faults, but they do occasionally happen."

Some people across metro Atlanta have taken to Twitter and Facebook to say they felt tremors from the quake.

Linda Poole Garcia wrote this on the Canton-Sixes Patch Facebook wall about an hour ago:

Was sitting on sofa and thought something bumped into it. No one here but me...switched to cnn and saw quake hit.

Did you feel anything?

Follow continuing coverage of the quake at and .

Cartersville Patch contributed to this report.