Luckily south eastern Va is built right on top of a swamp. You Va inlanders might have had a problem, but down here it just made all that jello underneath Hampton Roads jiggle just a little bit.
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6th floor...All I remember about riding the elevator with people from other floors was the odd looks we would get as we talked about nerdly things and coming to work looking like some of us just rolled out of bed.
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Heh. I work on the 6th floor of that building.
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I think my horse felt this coming just before it hit - I was brushing him down, and he went totally still for like a minute before the quake hit.
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Originally Posted by Garielle
At 5.9, it is the strongest quake in the recorded history of the Central Virginia area. It is tied for the strongest recorded quake in the entire state. The last 5.9 was in the late 1800s.
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Originally Posted by Basilisk
I live just south of Toronto, and just felt something that was enough to make me go "I think we just had an earthquake." My puppy wasn't thrilled about the event, though.
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Originally Posted by Zyphoid
My Grandmother in Raleigh NC said she could feel tremors from it. Wonder how many people freaked and thought they were being nuked.
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How many people live and work in DC?
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I have to say, CNN's coverage of this was amusing. The banner of the bottom of the screen read, "MASSIVE 5.8 EARTHQUAKE NEAR DC". I saw that and went, "Huh?" Near DC? It's closer to both Richmond and Charlottesville than it is to DC. They make it sound like it struck on the White House lawn or something.
Morons.
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Originally Posted by Frosty_Femme
I said "ur" which is not a word. It's a sound dumb people make when you ask them to spell out "you are".
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Blacksburg VA here.
If one good thing came from the 4/16 shootings is the fire it lit under VT administration to get an rapid response emergency warning system up and running el pronto. |
I keep hearing about them and going "Glad I didn't go to Technicon this year."
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If we get something of the magnitude of the 1812 quakes again, kiss a good chunk of the Midwest (as far north as Chicago and as far south as Birmingham) bye bye. Something in the 7-8 range will basically level downtown Chicago's skyscrapers.
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The biggest risk in the Midwest would be another New Madrid event.
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Don't want to even THINK about the magnitude of a quake that'd kick up something THAT big.
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Originally Posted by srmalloy
However, there are very few reactors in the Midwest that would, even with a seismic event like the New Madrid quakes of 1811/1812, be inundated by a tsunami.
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Originally Posted by Garielle
Oddly enough, my dog remained quite calm, before, during, and after the quake. To the point that I actually made it a point to check to make sure she is okay. The last one we had she got anxious shortly before it hit.
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The first one, the mother/father is spazzing out, WHAT! OMG! AUUUGH!
After #3, it's like:
"Uhm. It took 27 hours of labor and the child has two heads!"
"MEH!"
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Yeah. That one word sums up the entirety of the "news media" crowd and a sizeable chunk of the American populace.
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Originally Posted by Garielle
I have to say, CNN's coverage of this was amusing. The banner of the bottom of the screen read, "MASSIVE 5.8 EARTHQUAKE NEAR DC". I saw that and went, "Huh?" Near DC? It's closer to both Richmond and Charlottesville than it is to DC. They make it sound like it struck on the White House lawn or something.
Morons. |
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
My first thought was "well somebody got an earthquake machine working".
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Ahhhh, the claims that man made.
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I was more shaking my head at how for a while, every time I would check it seemed that the magnitude of the quake was being inflated. The local radio station was reporting a 5.8 a couple minutes after the quake, then a while later when I checked the internet it seemed everywhere was claiming 5.9 (though I think they corrected later) and then when I went out again the afternoon radio idiots were talking about it being a 6.0. I was actually surprised I didn't hear someone try and tell me we had a 6.3 by the end of the day.
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Yeah. That one word sums up the entirety of the "news media" crowd and a sizeable chunk of the American populace.
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Yeah, just a small river that could get blocked by all the bridges and debris from the quake. I doubt that area is prepared for a quake that large. Lots of other things can happen too. Basically, we won't know until after it happens.
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However, there are very few reactors in the Midwest that would, even with a seismic event like the New Madrid quakes of 1811/1812, be inundated by a tsunami.
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Someone on Twitter commented about the SoCal people making fun of the reaction to "just a 5.9" by saying something like, "You people freak out if it rains more than three days in a row. Let us have this!"
I also thought of this when I saw the Twitter feed:
http://xkcd.com/723/
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6th floor...All I remember about riding the elevator with people from other floors was the odd looks we would get as we talked about nerdly things and coming to work looking like some of us just rolled out of bed.
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I take it as a compliment!
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Yes. Felt like a heavy truck rolled by. I didn't think earthquake until my wife mentioned we had one, then I knew.
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Louisa County, VA here. Was reallllly close to the epicenter and a whole lotta shakin wasa goin' on. Thankfully, nobody was badly hurt from what I've heard but, the schools are closed for 2 weeks. The high school got hit hard.
My first chance to post about it now.
Enola, PA here (across the river from Harrisburg, PA- and if that's still obscure for you, then 1.5 hours west of Philadelphia, PA).
I had just gotten to bed about 20 minutes prior then I felt a shaking as I was dozing off. Thought I had a sinkhole forming underneath me or my house's structure was weakening (what do I know? I know nothing about engineering). Shook my house for about 10-15 seconds.
Didn't know about the earthquake until 9 hours later at where I work, USPS. 
Working in Washington, DC here...
When the quake began I knew exactly what it was. Then when it got stronger the building started to sway. We're on the 8th floor of an 8 story building & I have to say it was not a good feeling.
With this quake being a shallow quake, and coupled with the fact that many areas on the east coast are not built on a sand box there was a decent reason for concern. That said I'm reminded of why I don't ever want to live out west.
Glad everyone's ok (by and large)
Columbia, MD, here, on the second floor of an apartment building. My first thought was, "Boy, those kids upstairs are really shaking the floor!" My second was, "Hmm, with that rumbling, I guess it's a truck idling outside." When it didn't stop after a few seconds and things started falling off the shelves, I realized what it was. Ultimately, it was just a curiosity for me, for which I am thankful.
It did make me happy I didn't get that job in Santa Clara, CA, though.
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I live in SoCal, I don't give people a hard time about earthquakes. |
Originally Posted by Tog
Someone on Twitter commented about the SoCal people making fun of the reaction to "just a 5.9" by saying something like, "You people freak out if it rains more than three days in a row. Let us have this!"
I also thought of this when I saw the Twitter feed: http://xkcd.com/723/ |
I do, however, give SoCal people a hard time about rain, snow, and temps below 75 degrees.
I moved to SoCal from Oklahoma, where they have Winter, Tornado, Summer and Lesser Tornado seasons.
There I was between a rock and a hard place. Then I thought, "What am I doing on this side of the rock?"
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Originally Posted by Twisted Toon
I live in SoCal, I don't give people a hard time about earthquakes.
I do, however, give SoCal people a hard time about rain, snow, and temps below 75 degrees. I moved to SoCal from Oklahoma, where they have Winter, Tornado, Summer and Lesser Tornado seasons. |
Here, I once had someone honk and flip me off after I almost ran them off the road as they came up beside me and I was changing lanes. Imagine, fog so thick you can't see the lamp poles 20 feet ahead, he didn't have any lights on, and was driving a white car and I couldn't see him in my mirror as a seperate vehicle from the white explorer I was driving.
And if they do actually think to put their lights on, they blind themselves with the brights. Bah.
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That's because if you don't live on the East Coast, or even been to the East Coast, the East Coast is composed of only a handful of cities.|
Originally Posted by Garielle
I have to say, CNN's coverage of this was amusing. The banner of the bottom of the screen read, "MASSIVE 5.8 EARTHQUAKE NEAR DC". I saw that and went, "Huh?" Near DC? It's closer to both Richmond and Charlottesville than it is to DC. They make it sound like it struck on the White House lawn or something.
Morons. |
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Apparently it hit my city, I didn't feel it though :P