Earthquake on East Coast How bout that

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apparently one in colorado and maybe oklahoma today too
 
You all do have a baddassed fault going through there. It's mostly dormant but if it goes...:hairraise: I bet if a good one hit a lot of the stuff in NY will see liquifaction damage including possibly the Brooklyn Bridge. We won't get into waht a tsunami would do to the area... Not likely, but there are some potential slides that could cause a problem.
 
A cow-orker came by asking if I felt the earthquake. I didn't but it was felt at least as far as Detroit...
 
Shook DC pretty good. My office looks out on the USA Today towers in Rosslyn - nothing like watching them shake. Thousands of people in the streets.

Hey AStanley.... all OK @ your place? You probably win the prize for being closest....
 
So the government has evacuated all the buildings, monuments, and memorials out of an abundance of caution.
 
Oh Baby,,, did the earth move for you?
 
Just got a message from my mom, saying their house was shaking pretty heavily. It's about 100 miles due east from the center on the map above.

Interestingly, there was one of roughly the same size in Colo. last night.
 
steingar said:
Yeah, but it feels like something when you're in the middle of it.
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This one felt stronger because it was so shallow (less than a mile deep). Spreads more broadly.

Felt much different from the last one I was in when I was on a biz trip to SoCal. That one was more rolling, this was more shaking.

OMG, I just heard some public official on the radio calling for people to "shelter in place"....:rolleyes:
 
My office building in Bethesda was evacuated briefly...
 
Hope everyone is O.K.
I've experienced a couple like that in San Diego. No fun having the earth move beneath your feet.

Best,

Dave
 
wsuffa said:
Shook DC pretty good. My office looks out on the USA Today towers in Rosslyn - nothing like watching them shake. Thousands of people in the streets.

Hey AStanley.... all OK @ your place? You probably win the prize for being closest....
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He is in NYC

Dave Siciliano said:
Hope everyone is O.K.
I've experienced a couple like that in San Diego. No fun having the earth move beneath your feet.

Best,

Dave
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More freakish than anything else Dave.
 
You guys are going to think I'm nuts, but, I had just left the building and was walking around looking for a place to grab lunch. I was maybe 2 minutes walk from my office when I saw people starting to pour out of buildings. I felt nothing. Na-da. The people in the buildings heard a lot of creaking and saw movement, etc. which is why they all exited.

I am in metro DC - a little west.
 
Just got an email from people I work with in NC, they evacuated. They said they are not used to earthquakes.
 
Ok here in Fairfax. Working the polls today so not trapped downtown.

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OK, that's one more new experience, and once will be enough, thanks. :hairraise:

I was sitting at home, about 50 feet up in this 100-yr-old brick and wood former factory building... right next to a highway and elevated RR tracks, so a bit of shaking is very normal. Thought nothing of it until I realized I hadn't heard the sounds usually associated with such an event... and then the shaking got worse.

Rut-roh...

I ran out to the kitchen, saw a couple of the housemates. "I don't know about you, but I'm out of here", I told them.

The building was still rocking as I bolted downstairs, and when I returned a few minutes later, after talking with some neighbors who'd also evacuated, a few things in my room were still settling down. :eek:

No visible damage anywhere; I routinely check out all the various cracks I know of in the building's brickwork and the 70-foot brick smokestack out back, and they seem the same as last time I looked.

But just in case we get another ripple, I moved my car away from the building and have my flight bag and and a dry bag with important documents and other stuff ready to go by the door. I hope that's all for this one... that was not fun, not at all. :no:
 
I hate earthquakes. Gimme a blizzard or tornado any day over an earthquake.
 
wsuffa said:
OMG, I just heard some public official on the radio calling for people to "shelter in place"....:rolleyes:
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What exactly does that mean anyway? Go inside or something? If so, I think it would be better to be "go stand in an empty field" for an earthquake since there's nothing to fall on you in an empty field.
 
Felt it at KBED. Freight trains made more of a rumble when I was growing up 2 blocks from some railroad tracks.
 
fgcason said:
What exactly does that mean anyway? Go inside or something? If so, I think it would be better to be "go stand in an empty field" for an earthquake since there's nothing to fall on you in an empty field.
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You have to understand official Washingtondom speak for "we have to tell you this to protect you". It's the same kind of Washington speak that brought you duct tape and plastic.
 
dmccormack said:
Nicely amplified by the 21st floor in Allentown's only skyscraper...
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Is that the old PP&L building or are you over in Martin Towers - guess that's really Bethlehem.:D

Pretty good shake here in SE PA, not doubt an earthquake, no damage that I'm aware of.

Gary
 
fgcason said:
What exactly does that mean anyway? Go inside or something? If so, I think it would be better to be "go stand in an empty field" for an earthquake since there's nothing to fall on you in an empty field.
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I always heard that you should stand in a doorway. Empty fields might work OK in the suburbs or the country but not so much in the city where there are plenty of things to fall on you if you are standing in the street.
 
steingar said:
A six pointer is nothing to sneeze at. Didn't feel it here.
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6 pointer wouldn't even register with the average Californian... 6.5 is when they start to catch your attention. 6.8 is actually kinda fun. I was in Santa Cruz at the bus stop when Loma Prieta hit. That one threw me to the ground and I spilled my fresh new coffee....:mad:
 
Somehow I didn't feel it, but everyone else around here did.

I was driving...I suppose that makes a difference?
 
denverpilot said:
I hate earthquakes. Gimme a blizzard or tornado any day over an earthquake.
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I don't mind earthquakes. I was at soccer practice in a field near the Marina District in SF in 1989. I felt the earth shake, literally. We all lay on the ground as our parents watched in horror (they were picking us up in cars at the end of practice).

When we got home, our house and my classmates' houses were OK. Some of them lived in the Marina District and were evacuated by firemen but I didn't live there.... I was closer to the ocean down by St. Francis Woods.
 
kimberlyanne546 said:
Just got an email from people I work with in NC, they evacuated. They said they are not used to earthquakes.
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Bah, everyone felt it but me! I got a call from about 25 miles south of raleigh, saying it was shaking buildings pretty well and actually moving chairs / desks around and knocking stuff off walls.

Here in RTP - about 30 miles closer to the epicenter I did not feel a thing! Strange
 
Henning said:
6 pointer wouldn't even register with the average Californian... 6.5 is when they start to catch your attention. 6.8 is actually kinda fun. I was in Santa Cruz at the bus stop when Loma Prieta hit. That one threw me to the ground and I spilled my fresh new coffee....:mad:
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kimberlyanne546 said:
I don't mind earthquakes. I was at soccer practice in a field near the Marina District in SF in 1989. I felt the earth shake, literally. We all lay on the ground as our parents watched in horror (they were picking us up in cars at the end of practice).

When we got home, our house and my classmates' houses were OK. Some of them lived in the Marina District and were evacuated by firemen but I didn't live there.... I was closer to the ocean down by St. Francis Woods.
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Loma Prieta was a good shake. Our house was in Almaden Valley, about 6 miles from the epicenter. I was still at work in Cupertino when it hit. Quite a ride. No structural damage at home, but nothing was standing in the house. Shelves emptied, lamps down, speakers launched off shelves. The floor in the kitchen was a mess. Our son was home playing video games with a friend (coming up on 13 years old at the time). He went out, killed power and gas to the house and then went off looking for his sister. Good moves on his part.
 
If you're in the city or near a major highway, you probably feel what a 6.0 produces in ground shock on a relatively frequent basis. I have been in buildings in Manhattan over the subway that shake harder every 7 minutes.
 
dell30rb said:
Bah, everyone felt it but me! I got a call from about 25 miles south of raleigh, saying it was shaking buildings pretty well and actually moving chairs / desks around and knocking stuff off walls.

Here in RTP - about 30 miles closer to the epicenter I did not feel a thing! Strange
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Depending on your geology and building practices, you may feel it inside and not outside.
 
Henning said:
You all do have a baddassed fault going through there. It's mostly dormant but if it goes...:hairraise: I bet if a good one hit a lot of the stuff in NY will see liquifaction damage including possibly the Brooklyn Bridge. We won't get into waht a tsunami would do to the area... Not likely, but there are some potential slides that could cause a problem.
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You sure you're not thinking of the New Madrid fault? That's quite a way west of where this one was.

I'm pretty sure the Brooklyn Bridge and most of the tall buildings are on bedrock in NYC. They probably aren't designed for an earthquake though.
 
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