When you live on the East Coast your entire life, the idea of an earthquake is foreign. Today’s earthquake that was centered near Richmond, VA and felt from New York City to North Carolina, came as a complete shock.
Thanks to Twitter, everybody and their mother can let the world know their reactions to the earthquake. Here are the top 10 celebrity reactions to the event.
1. Comedian Pat Oswalt went on a three-tweet joke spree. Here’s his first: “Oops! 5.8 mag earthquake I just felt was centered in No. Va., where I grew up. I need to apologize.”
2. Judah Friedlander tweeted: “Sorry for the earthquake NYC, I just did a couple of intense jumping jacks.”
3. Political pundit Keith Olbermann used the incident as another way to take a dig at FoxNews: “I swear to Jesus Montero: Fox News just put a crawl on reading "No Tsunami Expected After East Coast Earthquake"
4. Alyssa Milano reminded everyone about the nuclear power plants in the area of the earthquake: “Ten nuclear plants in four states have declared "unusual events" after #earthquake http://on.cnn.com/pL1xoX”
5. Dave Itzkoff, a writer for the New York Times Art Beats Blog, joked “Y'all don't realize it yet, but Ryan Gosling just saved us from something much MUCH worse. #earthquake”.
6. With the earthquake’s proximity to DC and the current political climate, it’s only natural that political jokes will be made. Fox News pundit Monica Crowley wrote: “Mayor Bloomberg to address the #earthquake at 4pm. Will blame someone dissatisfied with ObamaCare.”
7. Comedian 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.”
8. Damon Lindelof, who worked on Lost: Is the Earthquake in Mineral Virginia, an alleged "gold-mining town" related to the island? Hmmm. What date is it today?
9. Ice-T appealed to everyone to calm down. “As long as everyone's ok...... Keep it moovin.. The EARTH is gonna do whatever the f--- it wants to do.”
10. Carson Daily welcomed New Yorkers to something he feels all the time in California: “Things are rollin in NYC now huh? Welcome to cali.”