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Don't worry. Hurricaine Irene will wash away the mess. 
I felt it over here in Annapolis. I just heard it registered 5.8 on the richter scale in Va. I was standing in the parking lot @ a convenience store and all of the light posts were swaying.
We felt it all the way up in Central Jersey (though after going through 'the big one' in San Francisco this was more like when a large truck drives by :smile
5th floor swaying in a building built in 1893. NOT FUN.
Felt it in Toronto too.. building was swaying back and forth for like 30 seconds. At first I thought it was just me suddenly getting dizzy, and then noticed everyone else in the office was feeling the same thing!
My office is 35 miles east of NYC, up the 4th floor we felt the entire building shake. Wowee.
As a Californian I LOL at the folks in the NE areas and colorado that can't hack an earthquake.
2012.
...and we LOL at you guys trying to drive in snow. :tongue:
Yep - was pretty strange. I haven't been around an earthquake with that sort of duration and was more surprised at how LONG it lasted rather than how intense it was.
Since I live about a mile from the Pentagon, I will admit that I first wondered if it was some sort of military strike with the first rumblings, but after it lasted for so long I knew it wasn't due to an explosion.
Since I live about a mile from the Pentagon, I will admit that I first wondered if it was some sort of military strike with the first rumblings, but after it lasted for so long I knew it wasn't due to an explosion.
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5th Floor in my office in Arlington. At first I thought it was someone drilling under the building (not sure why I thought that), but quickly realized it was an earthquake.
All my family is fine, in-laws have minor damage, I called and had my wife check to make sure the NSX was still ON the jack stands in the garage. Thankfully, it was.
All my family is fine, in-laws have minor damage, I called and had my wife check to make sure the NSX was still ON the jack stands in the garage. Thankfully, it was.
I do all the time in winter at Tahoe.
And we LOL at ya'll that are stuck with snow and yellow snow cones for the winter.
In Cali we have the option to change our weather from snow to beach.
I LOL at non earthquake standard buildings outside of Cali.
Finally something shakes things up in Washington....greetings from california. welcome to our world!
washington DC evacuating !........ANY EXCUSE FOR THEM NOT TO WORK IN D.C.
Come back, Mr. Earthquake... you forgot to swallow up all the criminals.
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Finally something shakes things up in Washington....greetings from california. welcome to our world!
washington DC evacuating !........ANY EXCUSE FOR THEM NOT TO WORK IN D.C.
Come back, Mr. Earthquake... you forgot to swallow up all the criminals.
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Funny.
This was discussed back in 2008:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26361143/ns/us_news-life/t/study-finds-new-earthquake-dangers-nyc/
New Yorkers have a much higher sensitivity for earthquakes than California residents. In December 2004, New Yorkers called police after a series of four earthquakes registering less than 1 on the Richter scale shook city neighborhoods.
Unlike California earthquakes, which stem from the collision of plates at the San Andreas Fault, the smaller 125th Street fault is not the result of any intersection of plates. In fact, New York sits squarely in the middle of the plate between the San Andreas Fault and the mid-Atlantic Ridge, which lies beneath the Atlantic Ocean. The New York fault is activated when plate movement thousands of miles to the east and west compress the 125th Street line.
New York City faced its last significant quake in 1884, when a magnitude 5.2 event off the shore of Far Rockaway, Queens, caused chimneys to fall. That quake was felt from Virginia to Maine. While such a quake is likely to occur every 100 years in New York, scientists believe, the last 120 years have featured smaller earthquakes, including two magnitude 2 events in the fall of 2001 that were felt throughout Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.
Last year, a group of scientists and engineers called the New York City Area Consortium for Earthquake Loss Mitigation issued a report that outlined the potential risk and consequences of another 1884-type event. In New York City, “catastrophic events with Magnitudes 6 and larger are possibilities,” the report states. The group estimates that a moderate magnitude 6 quake at 2 p.m. would cause 1,170 deaths and close to $40 billion in damages.
This was discussed back in 2008:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26361143/ns/us_news-life/t/study-finds-new-earthquake-dangers-nyc/
New Yorkers have a much higher sensitivity for earthquakes than California residents. In December 2004, New Yorkers called police after a series of four earthquakes registering less than 1 on the Richter scale shook city neighborhoods.
Unlike California earthquakes, which stem from the collision of plates at the San Andreas Fault, the smaller 125th Street fault is not the result of any intersection of plates. In fact, New York sits squarely in the middle of the plate between the San Andreas Fault and the mid-Atlantic Ridge, which lies beneath the Atlantic Ocean. The New York fault is activated when plate movement thousands of miles to the east and west compress the 125th Street line.
New York City faced its last significant quake in 1884, when a magnitude 5.2 event off the shore of Far Rockaway, Queens, caused chimneys to fall. That quake was felt from Virginia to Maine. While such a quake is likely to occur every 100 years in New York, scientists believe, the last 120 years have featured smaller earthquakes, including two magnitude 2 events in the fall of 2001 that were felt throughout Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.
Last year, a group of scientists and engineers called the New York City Area Consortium for Earthquake Loss Mitigation issued a report that outlined the potential risk and consequences of another 1884-type event. In New York City, “catastrophic events with Magnitudes 6 and larger are possibilities,” the report states. The group estimates that a moderate magnitude 6 quake at 2 p.m. would cause 1,170 deaths and close to $40 billion in damages.
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Aint that the truth........can be at the beach and on the ski slopes all in one day.......
my boys in AZ keep wishing for Cali to crack off into a surf board....... :biggrin:
I felt an aftershock here in PA. I was on the computer in my livingroom. All a sudden my back came off the back rest on my couch. I thought I was having back spasms or something like that. After the second time I looked at my fish tank and the water was very choppy and knew I wasnt going crazy. I went out side thought maybe a mack truck crashed. Then went downstairs to see if maybe my water heater blew or something. I never experienced something like that before. I was very confused. My girlfriend gave me a call and thats when I found out it was an aftershock.
We felt the building moving a lot in Reston. Stupidly we're all standing around "is this an earthquake?" Then more stupidly we walk to the windows and see people at the bus stop looking around perplexed, then look a the office buildings on the other side of the toll road and see their windows shaking. The only bad thing that happened was me leaving my tea on the desk during the evacuation
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