I'm in Brooklyn also, and while yeah this was nothing, (here, not closer to the epicenter, of course), being so unused to this sort of thing, (I'm used to hurricanes, blizzard's, extreme heat indexing and tornado's now), I can say that was scary as hell to feel my whole building shake like that.
Life is something that happens while making other plans.
Roanoke, VA here. Was quite a ride for a few minutes, thought someone was running on the floor above us until it got a bit worse. No damage thankfully, but was my first noticable earthquake I can remember.
BTW, love it Zwill.
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There's a few folks here in the office from back in VA. Hearing that folks around/near the epicenter are fine...a little shaken, but fine.
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Roanoke, VA here. Was quite a ride for a few minutes, thought someone was running on the floor above us until it got a bit worse. No damage thankfully, but was my first noticable earthquake I can remember.
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My Twitter feed lit up like the Fourth of July the moment it happened...I saw reports from as far south as North Carolina all the way up into Southern Michigan.
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FYI, I had this cartoon posted on my office door. I've since taken it down and taped it to my laptop lid.
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It was the biggest the east coast has seen, but just a solid roll, no big snap at all. Lasted about a minute.
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There's a few folks here in the office from back in VA. Hearing that folks around/near the epicenter are fine...a little shaken, but fine.
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...Okay, how is it that earthquakes keep happening and I keep missing them? I was even awake for this one!
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I'm on the third floor of an apartment building about 10 miles from Fairfax, and we were rocking and rolling! It actually woke me up from my usual Tuesday siesta!
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My Twitter feed lit up like the Fourth of July the moment it happened...I saw reports from as far south as North Carolina all the way up into Southern Michigan.
My former Coworkers back in Fairfax, VA claim to have had a wild ride...I can only imagine as some of our offices were on the 8th floor! |
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Update from Washington, DC:
I'm on the 8th floor and there was a very slight lifting and fluttering feeling -- I instantly thought "big fire on the floors below me" -- and then a few seconds of shuddering vibration -- followed by a few seconds of sway as the building itself swayed a bit. The combination of a big adrenaline dump into my bloodstream and the side-to-side motion had my knees feeling like lead for a few minutes.
The USGS says it was a 5.9 Richter, and a VII on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. VII described thusly:
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That would indicate actual building damage might occur in poorly-built buildings -- and, in fact, several co-workers report the brick rooftop facing of a Subway sandwich shop crumbled and emergency crews are on the scene. I have not been outside yet to see it, but apparently there was some damage in Washington, DC.| Difficult to stand; furniture broken; damage negligible in building of good design and construction; slight to moderate in well-built ordinary structures; considerable damage in poorly built or badly designed structures; some chimneys broken. Noticed by people driving motor cars. |
It switched on an unused security surveillance camera here, and some envelopes slid off a credenza in my office area, but that's all I saw in person.
I work at a safety agency and there's a lot of professional interest in this event.
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...Okay, how is it that earthquakes keep happening and I keep missing them? I was even awake for this one!
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Several times, we had some when I was sleeping... everyone else woke up... not me...
And now this one... I was sitting here on the computer as it supposedly happened...
Okay... I get it... this is all just a trick on me, right?
And Zwill... Seriously... I have to go out and pick up that chair... OUTSIDE!!! There are insects and things... and SUN...
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And Zwill... Seriously... I have to go out and pick up that chair... OUTSIDE!!! There are insects and things... and SUN...
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I'm only 20 minutes from D.C. My whole house was shaking and I was freaking out. Lot of my stuff fell over and my rock wall near my porch was split into shards!!!
My ceramic smoker is shattered & my neighbor's carport fell over on his car. Some water lines burst, too.
As far as being nuked... that's a definite thought in the mind of those that live relatively close to the Norfolk Shipyards.
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Vex: Similar experience in Lanham, MD (just east of the DC beltway). We're in the middle of an office move and the painters have been working in the building. I feel shaking on the roof, wondered wtf they were doing... then it got REALLY violent, and I was about to get up and shout at them, when I realized "Hey... ground's moving..."|
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I'm only 20 minutes from D.C. My whole house was shaking and I was freaking out. Lot of my stuff fell over and my rock wall near my porch was split into shards!!!
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By the time I realized what happened, it was over, and everyone was outside tweeting about it.
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On the central Jersey Shore, I thought my coworker who was hunched over the computer with me picking out a song was rocking my chair with a swaying foot. I was about to tell him to stop when I noticed my monitor was also swaying.
Construction?
Wind?
Is this an earthquake?
Yeah, I think it's an earthquake.
Looks outside: Gentle breeze. Lamp posts swaying.
Yep, it's an earthquake.
Goes back to work.
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I feel for you, kitty!!!
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...my rock wall near my porch was split into shards!!!
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My ceramic smoker is shattered...
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Oh, it's a cooking thing!
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I was about 30 miles away (West down 64 from the event) driving in my car(with only mediocre shocks) and felt nothing | Noticed by people driving motor cars. |
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The part to be worried about is this:
Here in CA, everything is built to withstand Earthquakes...in VA, not so much. Even a "relatively low magnitude" 5.9 will probably end up doing millions of dollars worth of damage.
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Well, I hope the damage wasn't too bad over there. I don't know if you all over on the East Coast have any sort of seismic requirements for your building codes, but if you don't I bet you will soon.
Goodbye, I guess.
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Well, I imagine a decent chunk of damage was done, but for what it's worth here in Charlottesville (which is about as far away from the epicenter as Richmond) there doesn't appear to be much damage done. Of course it's too early to say that with any certainty, but the microburst that hit us the other weekend did more damage to my neighborhood than the quake did.
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Here in CA, everything is built to withstand Earthquakes...in VA, not so much. Even a "relatively low magnitude" 5.9 will probably end up doing millions of dollars worth of damage.
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I'm hearing from folks near Charlottesville that plaster was falling from ceilings and that in one case a roof collapsed on a dilapidated building, but that's about it.
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Well, I imagine a decent chunk of damage was done, but for what it's worth here in Charlottesville (which is about as far away from the epicenter as Richmond) there doesn't appear to be much damage done. Of course it's too early to say that with any certainty, but the microburst that hit us the other weekend did more damage to my neighborhood than the quake did.
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I'm hearing from folks near Charlottesville that plaster was falling from ceilings and that in one case a roof collapsed on a dilapidated building, but that's about it.
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On the other hand there's also this news article. Apparently the 'local' nuclear reactor was only designed to withstand a 5.9-6.1 earthquake. The highest we normally have around here is in the 4-5 range so I'm guessing that seemed like a high-end estimate but given we just had a 5.9 it seems a little close for comfort.
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