Being in Moscow, which is 6000+ km away from the epicentre of the earthquake, we still felt the tremors... Fascinating.
How easy it is to feel varies depending on what floor you're on, how well constructed your building is, what kind of ground you're standing on, etc, etc, etc.
Furthermore at that distance the earthquake should be a slow roller, which means that someone who is focused on something might not notice while another person in the same room could notice, realize how much motion there is, and freak out. I've been there as well - as the person watching a movie who ignored an earthquake that everyone outside of the movie was quite aware of.
So the fact that you live in Moscow and didn't feel it is not grounds to call BS on someone else claiming that they felt it.
"I would sooner believe that two Yankee professors would lie than that stones would fall from heaven!" - Thomas Jefferson
The point being, whether we believe it or not changes nothing. This person experienced it.