Earthquakes have been hitting various places across the United States today. A quake of a reported 5.8 magnitude hit the east coast.

According to The Weather Channel, the quake’s epicenter was in Virginia and reports claim that it was felt in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Toronto and Ottawa.

Businesses are already exploiting the quake:

Some are already making jokes at Redskins’ QB Rex Grossman’s expense:

CNN tweets that the quake was felt in Martha’s Vineyard, where President Obama is:

Some are blaming Obama himself for the quake:

While there have been plenty of evacuations (including at the Pentagon), we’ve yet to see any reports of damage or injury from the quake.

It’s always interesting to see the different perspectives on the weather on Twitter (probably why they just announced a new partnership with the Weather Channel).

The quake isn’t the only weather event that’s currently on Twitter’s trending topics. Hurricane Irene is also on there at the moment. More on that here.

One really interesting aspect of this whole earthquake thing is that there was also a quake in Colorado last night – the strongest in the state since the 70s, according to reports. In fact, there have been quite a few around the country in the last day. Look at this map from Intellicast: