YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - If you thought you felt the earth move in the Mahoning Valley on Monday afternoon, you weren't alone.

The same earthquake that led to evacuations in Washington, D.C and registered 5.8 on the richter scale also caused the ground to shake here in the Mahoning Valley and led to the evacuation of more than 200 workers at the Oakhill Renaissance building.

Dennis Maher was one of hundreds of employees who felt the earthquake inside the Mahoning County Department of Jobs and Family Services and immediately evacuated the building. "It was like one of the rides that we used to experience when we went to a fairground where the floors were flat and you would step on it, and the floors would shift back and forth. That's what it was like."

More than 200 employees who work at the Oakhill building, the majority of them employed with Jobs and Family Services have been through this before.  Bob Bush, the Director of Jobs and Family Services says, "The last time this happened our facilities people learned something from the engineer about what to look for. So we checked the buildings for cracks or falling plaster, and we're pretty confident that the building is safe."

Across town at Youngstown State University, others also experienced the quake.   Dr. Jeffrey Dick, Chair and Associate Professor of Geological Environmental Sciences says it's not surprising that we could feel the impact of a quake centered in Virginia,  "Those earthquake waves will travel quickly and they will travel far, and so it's not unusual that we would feel an earthquake of that magnitude.  And it's not all that far away when you think about it."