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John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 23 2011 11:56 AM

Feel it?

themetfairy Aug 23 2011 11:57 AM Re: Earthshaker

Yup ©

Ceetar Aug 23 2011 11:59 AM Re: Earthshaker

yup. NewEarthquake 5.8 earthquake, Virginia. Aug 23 1:51pm at epicenter (-0m ago, 15km S of Mineral, depth 6km). http://j.mp/nDuhkT

G-Fafif Aug 23 2011 12:01 PM Re: Earthshaker

Totally. In Sensurround.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 23 2011 12:01 PM Re: Earthshaker

Weird, I think that's a first for me. Twatters say epicenter between Richmond and DC. Felt it up here!

metirish Aug 23 2011 12:08 PM Re: Earthshaker

Co-worker just came back from a nap in her car totally freaked by it, and get this, she was talking to a friend in Virginia who started screaming that her house was shaking.... I felt nothing

themetfairy Aug 23 2011 12:09 PM Re: Earthshaker

I felt one or two others in my life. But this was the first time I could hear things rattle (my racing medals were doing a dance on the wall).

Benjamin Grimm Aug 23 2011 12:21 PM Re: Earthshaker

I felt it too. I thought one of my kids was shaking the kitchen table. I didn't hear anything, though. My wife and kids are home, and none of them felt anything.

Chad Ochoseis Aug 23 2011 12:27 PM Re: Earthshaker

Yeppers. They evacuated my office building in northern NJ - my gf's in downtown Newark was also evacuated. Was on the phone with a guy in our Long Island office going over some spreadsheets when, out of nowhere, I heard him say "What the hell is that?" I thought he was talking about something in my analysis. Then I felt my building shake about five seconds later.

sharpie Aug 23 2011 12:34 PM Re: Earthshaker

yep. They're doing construction on the floor below me so I thought at first that that is what it was. I lived in San Francisco for 11 years. This was nothin'.

metsmarathon Aug 23 2011 01:00 PM Re: Earthshaker

yup

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 23 2011 01:02 PM Re: Earthshaker

Yep. My sleeping baby made more mess this afternoon.

Frayed Knot Aug 23 2011 01:31 PM Re: Earthshaker

Gov't buildings have been evacuated in DC. Can we schedule another one of these for tomorrow too?

Edgy DC Aug 23 2011 01:41 PM Re: Earthshaker

Hey, don't be a dick. It was pretty frightening here. I was at the H. Carl Moutrie District Courthouse, returning from lunch to continue being reviewed among a 54 person-panel for a 14-member jury. I stopped to relieve myself and while in the restroom the building shook back and forth hard a few times after an initial thud sound. Guy next to me looks to me for information, but unlike Fman, I'm not used to the earth shaking every time I unzip my fly. I stick it back in my pants and suggest to the guy, "Maybe we should get out of here." We emerge from the bathroom and folks are sprinting down the escalators --- a 5.8 on the panic scale. Obviously, a terrorist attack is my first thought. And I mentally note that the priisdent, vice president, and Congress are all out of town, so if it's an attack, it was a pretty blind shot. (The things you think about...) I was a little more wary of getting trampled than getting flattened in a collapsing building, so I hung back about 20 seconds until traffic thinned out a little. Got outside and learned the deets from folks who, unlike me, had cellphones that had juice and were smart. (I wasted mine playing Tetris during my considerable downtime this morning.) The Subway across the street was carved out of a building at least 100 years old, and their chimney had collapsed. Folks on the street were a little freakier than those in the building. The described thinking a train was going under them but then the streetlights were swaying like palm trees. Then the chim-chiminy went. After we all waited like good little citizens for an hour or so, somebody announced the building was closing for the day. (Excused from jury duty? Report tomorrow? I don't know!) I walked about 15 blocks back here to work. Folks are waiting for more news from the US Geological Survey before evacuating. My wife is braving the streets to come get me. She was already out there, scheduled to drive the food for the Dinner Program tonight. I've learned that folks are quick to forget the homeless in crises major and minor. So bully for her.

metirish Aug 23 2011 01:55 PM Re: Earthshaker

Check out the video at the bottom here, during the DA Vance press conference they felt it http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -York.html

TransMonk Aug 23 2011 01:57 PM Re: Earthshaker

Edgy DC wrote: unlike Fman, I'm not used to the earth shaking every time I unzip my fly. BOC sighting.

DocTee Aug 23 2011 02:22 PM Re: Earthshaker

welcome to my world. 5.9? yawn.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 23 2011 02:39 PM Re: Earthshaker

Five honorary Schaefer points to the first person to find some quack on the Internet saying the quake was because God was angry about the Martin Luther King statue.

A Boy Named Seo Aug 23 2011 02:45 PM Re: Earthshaker

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Five honorary Schaefer points to the first person to find some quack on the Internet saying the quake was because God was angry about the Martin Luther King statue. I thought that's why he sent the hurricane.

Frayed Knot Aug 23 2011 02:46 PM Re: Earthshaker

metirish wrote: Check out the video at the bottom here, during the DA Vance press conference they felt it Is the Daily Mail always known for such calm and un-alarming headlines?

metirish Aug 23 2011 03:50 PM Re: Earthshaker

Frayed Knot wrote: metirish wrote: Check out the video at the bottom here, during the DA Vance press conference they felt it Is the Daily Mail always known for such calm and un-alarming headlines? Always , it's a rag. Terry Collins house is twenty miles from the epicenter tweets Rubin, trying to find out about damage if any.

Frayed Knot Aug 23 2011 04:06 PM Re: Earthshaker

metirish wrote: metirish wrote: Check out the video at the bottom here, during the DA Vance press conference they felt it Is the Daily Mail always known for such calm and un-alarming headlines? Always , it's a rag. . I mean, look at this stuff: - Thousands flee swaying buildings as 5.8 earthquake shakes East Coast from Washington D.C. to New York City "Flee" and "swaying" are both taking some liberties - Huge earthquake felt across the East Coast, from Toronto to South Carolina "Huge" is definitely subject to interpretation - Damage reported in Virginia A horse barn tip over? - Fears of Fukushima-like nuclear disaster because old nuclear plant a few miles from epicentre Because you never know when that tsunami is going to come roaring 100 miles up the Rhappahanock River.

metirish Aug 23 2011 04:17 PM Re: Earthshaker

I think they were trying to evoke a 9/11 type feeling, at least that is what I got seeing the pictures.

Ashie62 Aug 23 2011 04:54 PM Re: Earthshaker

Yes..Minor rumbling...didn't know it was a quake until later..

Fman99 Aug 23 2011 07:00 PM Re: Earthshaker

Edgy DC wrote: I stick it back in my pants and suggest to the guy, "Maybe we should get out of here."

RealityChuck Aug 23 2011 07:58 PM Re: Earthshaker

I didn't, but my wife did. She was in the basement when it hit and said it felt like her chair was coming apart. Didn't realize it was an earthquake until I mentioned it.

Frayed Knot Aug 23 2011 08:20 PM Re: Earthshaker

Nats delayed the start of tonight's game by about 20 minutes, mainly on account of lots of snarled transportation* around the area as both the locals and the DBacks had trouble getting to the stadium. They also said there was minor damage within the stadium - "a few TVs fell" - but used the extra time to check things out and kept the gates closed to fans until shortly before game time. * They said Metro was running trains at only 20 mph this afternoon which leads me to ask; why choose the day when you have an earthquake to speed things up?

Edgy DC Aug 23 2011 08:55 PM Re: Earthshaker

metirish wrote: I think they were trying to evoke a 9/11 type feeling, at least that is what I got seeing the pictures. There's about 4,000 things wrong with that.

MFS62 Aug 23 2011 09:37 PM Re: Earthshaker

As long as everyone is all right, that's the most important thing. I hadn't arrived at work yet in Port Chester, but was in a Costco about 5 blocks away. The folks felt it in the office. I didn't. Later

Frayed Knot Aug 25 2011 04:31 PM Re: Earthshaker

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Five honorary Schaefer points to the first person to find some quack on the Internet saying the quake was because God was angry about the Martin Luther King statue. That's ridiculous. Everyone knows that it's the hurricane due to arrive right in the midst of the dedication ceremonies that was sent by an angry god. btw, got a kick out of Letterman saying that the epicenter of the quake was traced to Gov Christie's aerobics class.

Rockin' Doc Aug 25 2011 07:53 PM Re: Earthshaker

My partner and I were about the only people I have encountered locally that didn't notice the minor quake when it occurred. I'm afraid we won't be nearly so lucky with Irene.

Willets Point Aug 27 2011 04:01 PM Re: Earthshaker

Late to this thread, but I'm happy to report that I didn't feel a thing in the Green Mountains of Vermont.

Frayed Knot Aug 27 2011 05:47 PM Re: Earthshaker

Still recovering from the devastation here.