It's possible that some East Coast residents may have if they were far enough away from the epicenter. That's due to the way the shock waves travel.

The struck central Virginia on Tuesday afternoon, prompting people from New York to North Carolina, and as far west as Michigan and Illinois to ask, "Did you feel that?"

As of 3:45pm ET Tuesday, the was the second most talked about subject worldwide on Twitter; that and the were the top trending topics in some of the cities most affected, which including Washington, D.C., New York, and Philadelphia.

Twitter could have been one of the few ways those affected could get through in the minutes following the quake: MSNBC reported that Verizon Wireless suffered heavy congestion on its East Coast network, and anecdotally I can report that AT&T calls from time to time failed to connect.