Jay481985 Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I am in north nj and we felt it, confirmed by like 80 of my friends in nyc Apparently 5.8 magnitude in Virginia How are you guys living there doing? Phone and cellphones are overloaded, twitter struggling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14634730 Earthquake strikes US east coast A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck the east coast of the United States. The quake hit at 1351 local time (1751 GMT) at a depth of 3.7 miles (6km), the US Geological Survey said. It said the quake was centred some 9 miles from the town of Mineral, in the state of Virginia. An initial measurement of 5.8 was later upgraded. The quake was felt in Washington, where the Pentagon and US Capitol Building were evacuated, as well as in New York. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invidiosulus Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I felt it down here in 28604, NC. -Josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenM Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I definitely felt it here in the burbs of DC. No damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAKO Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I,m sorry,,It was me,, I dropped the needle on the LP with the volume all the way up.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 I thought it was due to boobquake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Didn't feel it here in CA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Not good news. Maybe the builduip for December 21, 2012 on the Mayan calendar. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunburnwilly Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Not good news. Maybe the builduip for December 21, 2012 on the Mayan calendar. JJK Or the next rapture date of Oct. 21st 2011 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tragusa3 Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I felt it pretty good here in Greenville, SC. Dishes rattled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I was in the basement on the computer, and it sounded and felt like a heavy truck had rumbled into my main floor. I thought it might be a home invasion. Bravely running upstairs, I finally realized the ground itself was shaking. I'd never had felt an earthquake before. Dishes rattled but stayed put. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I was in the basement on the computer, and it sounded and felt like a heavy truck had rumbled into my main floor. I thought it might be a home invasion. Bravely running upstairs, I finally realized the ground itself was shaking. I'd never had felt an earthquake before. Dishes rattled but stayed put. Too bad you weren't playing an LP, Larry. It would have been a good tracking test for your Transfiguration! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 i hardly even notice them unless they're fairly substantial. I've been in too many too count; but, not many huge ones. 6.6 that lasted one minute; but, caused over $500 million in damage. worse part about earthquakes is that the news talks about "the next big one" for so long that you start wishing the big one would come just to knock the station off the air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted August 23, 2011 Moderators Share Posted August 23, 2011 I was in the basement on the computer, and it sounded and felt like a heavy truck had rumbled into my main floor. I thought it might be a home invasion. Bravely running upstairs, I finally realized the ground itself was shaking. I'd never had felt an earthquake before. Dishes rattled but stayed put. It's not the end of the fun for that area yet, just in case any fires were started a hurricane is going to bring alot of rain to put them out. [] I wonder if there are any problems with any of the coal mines in Virginia, wouldn't want to be in a mine during an earthquake, or anytime really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted August 23, 2011 Moderators Share Posted August 23, 2011 i hardly even notice them unless they're fairly substantial. I've been in too many too count; but, not many huge ones. 6.6 that lasted one minute; but, caused over $500 million in damage. worse part about earthquakes is that the news talks about "the next big one" for so long that you start wishing the big one would come just to knock the station off the air. It was so scary politicians in DC started telling the truth, for a few minutes anyway. [:#] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I felt it on Pluto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Yeah, the biggest one I experienced was the '89 Loma Prieta at 6.9. That's the one that collapsed freeways and a deck on the Bay Bridge. Of course, the way the Richter scale* works (a base-10 logarithmic scale), the Loma Prieta was over 10 times the power of today's Virginia quake, and this year's earthquake in Japan (9.0) was over 1,000 times as strong! *Note: They're using a different, but similar scale now, the MMS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Too bad you weren't playing an LP, Larry. It would have been a good tracking test for your Transfiguration! That it would. But put it in a Vector arm, and it will track anything.Cable news is doing its usual filling up the hours with incessantly repeated fluffy headlines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Too bad you weren't playing an LP, Larry. It would have been a good tracking test for your Transfiguration! That it would. Put it in a Vector arm, and it will track anything.Cable news is doing its usual filling up the hours with incessantly repeated fluffy headlines. Yes, I was watching CNN, the main story being the earthquake. Of course, there are newsworthy events happening in Libya, but the runner at the bottom of the screen kept informing me that Katie Couric's new show would be called "Katie." Earthshaking in it's own right. I was flipping around, and the weird looking guy on Fox (don't remember his name) finally said, "Folks, the earth shook. It stopped. Everything is OK. So if you want to see more on the earthquake, I suggest changing channels." I was impressed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USNRET Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 A lot of damage at the epicenter: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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