Millions of people up and down the East Coast were rocked by Tuesday afternoon?s 5.8-magnitude earthquake, and, believe it or not, the ground rumbled here in Madison as well, 700 miles away from the quake?s epicenter.
“The windows shook, kind of rattled a little bit,” said James Lustig, who works at the Carbone Cancer Center on the sixth floor at UW Hospital. “I thought, ?That?s kind of weird, my window doesn?t open.?”