EARTHQUAKE! A collection of funny tweets from the East Coast epicenter and beyond

How cool is this? On the US East Coast, somewhere between Washington, New York and Boston, a 5.9 earthquake occurred this morning.

The greatest damage was to the rest of the world which will have to listen for weeks to the citizens of those cities arguing about who was closest to the epicenter.

For a region whose denizens think a natural disaster is usually something like spilling coffee on a camels' hair coat, experiencing a gen-u-wine earthquake was quite an event. Buildings shook, some panicky people actually cancelled their luncheon reservations and, of course, in the epicenter of global media commentary, EVERYONE tweeted, texted, emailed, Youtubed and offered detailed personal assessments. Mostly without even demanding travel expenses.

Herewith is a collection of some amusing tweets from today's offerings:

Wolf Blitzer is on the phone with the earthquake (Murninghan Post)
Politico had the earthquake story yesterday (Politico)
Earthquake made me spill my tea. Am available for interviews (Fast Company)
Robert Mackey has gone from liveblogging Libya to liveblogging earthquake (New York Times)(ed. note - did anyone notice a difference?)
I feel like God and I were sitting on the same couch and he ripped a big one (Sarah Benincasa)
Could better Obama speechmaking have prevented this earthquake? (Steve Kornacki)
Was all set to loot in Dupont Circle (Wash, DC)but realized all we have are taco stands and cupcake stores (Dave Weigel)
Lemon slices at Chipotle (Mexican restaurant chain) apparent victim of quake (Josh at TPM)
There was just a 6.0 earthquake in Washington DC. Obama wanted 3.4 but Republicans wanted 6 so he compromised (Tweet of God)
S&P downgrades quake to 5.6 (Ari Hershowitz)
In LA we go back to work after a 5.9 quake (JB Flint), In NY we never stopped working (YinkaWrites)