Mid-atlantic Earthquake

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: <----- Northridge 1994 refugee

There too. It takes a lot to wake me up. That did it.

Per Schroeder wrote:

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: <----- Northridge 1994 refugee

There too. It takes a lot to wake me up. That did it.

haha me too. Ive slept thru most of em out west, except for that one....

I was out with my sons biking in Battlefield Park which is SE of Richmond, VA. We had stopped for a water break and heard the rumbling and felt the ground trembling. It really didn't feel that strong in spite of our relatively close proximity to the epicenter. I'm guessing that when you are inside a building, there are more clues that there's an earthquake. It really wasn't very dramatic.

I LOL'ed at the reports of government workers up and down the east coast evacuating their places of employment. Any excuse not to work! LOL.

Figures the epicenter was in Mineral, VA--home to the North Anna Nuclear Power Station. I hear they took it offline, but there are no immediate reports of damage.

We now have proof that GRM HQ is impervious to earthquakes.

I'm less sure about Hurricanes...

If anyone sees a swarm of these guys, I'd run if I were you.

They evacuated some of the govt offices in downtown Raleigh, but none of the tall buildings. Really a non-event. The TV hystericals will have to go back to screaming about Irene.

If anyone cares, it's been downgraded back to 5.8.

Back when I lived in the Bay area for the summer, I was awoken by a 6.5.

And when I was a HS kid, there was the 7.1 quake that raised the highest peak in Idaho by 3 feet in a few seconds. Biggie, but outside of some facades, no damage.

This one was minor.

I'm working in Boston on the waterfront & it was felt up here, 10 miles north & south as well.

I felt it in Ithaca NY. That was fun except I almost got motion sick.

here in WNC many of the folk at the plant said they felt it .... me ? nada

Breaking News: it's just been established by the administration that the DC earthquake occurred on a rare and obscure faultline, apparently known as "Bush's Fault".

LOL!

And here I thought it was California that was going to fall into the ocean. Well either coast disappearing would still improve the rest.

I'm less than 10 miles from DC and it shook us pretty damn good!

As a resident of California I just have to say, Welcome to our world.

Didn't know there was one until the 5'oclock news ranted on for 10 minutes.

Felt it all the way up in Trumbull, CT - my first earthquake...

Guys, Now’s your chance to rush home and knock all of her knick-knack E36 M3 off the shelves.

Oh sure, judge me, ridicule me, school me on the sanctity of your relationship.

Whatever, just imagine all those porcelain shards of cat & crystal bell remnants on the floor and you’ll know exactly what to do.

25th floor in Manhattan. Felt it, thought the people upstairs were really jumping around, or maybe it was the maintenance crew doing something in the hallway. Didn't give it another thought until 20 minutes later when someone called it an "earthquake".

Felt it here, some poorly placed items fell on the floor, stopped caring about it once it stopped

I am going to start a fund to help all of the victims in New York that suffered through MEGA QUAKE 2011. Victims of MEGA QUAKE 2011 include the ones of tens of people who were startled, suffered mild confusion, or were ever-so-slightly winded from walking down the steps to evacuate their buildings.

Paper cuts, minor slips, and typos on computer documents were some of the disasterous consequences of MEGA QUAKE 2011. In addition, many people were inconvenienced by slow or lagging telephone data services when trying to text their families to see if they were feeling it too, or when trying to download the latest Richter Scale app to measure the quake they were feeling. More than 9 people were unable to complete the download by the time the quake ended, leaving them disappointed or even slightly agitated.

When polled on the street, one New York resident excalimed: "I was all like, wow! An earth quake? I thought I was feeling the subway under me, or some junk, but then, like, my girlfriends told me later that, like, the Earth was, like, quaking or some junk?"

Another resident was in awe when he reportedly jumped to the rescue and quickly evacuated all of his coworkers from their office just in time: "I didn't know what to do, you know? The whole building was shaking for almost 5 seconds! I pulled the fire alarm and called 9-1-1 as I evacuated my office building on 57th Street!"

A local resident of Penn Station reportedly pooped in his pants and then asked for Crack when the reporter asked him about the MEGA QUAKE, showing just how desparate some people were today.

Please donate when the telethon lines are set up. Donations of over $200 will receive a free pencil eraser cap.

There's a LOT more dust on stuff at my house. I guess my ceilings were dustier than I previously thought.

An image from the devastation in DC today:

I live about a half hour from the epicenter and it didn't do anything to my house, but my parents house a few miles away is full of broken knick knacks.

rustyvw wrote: I live about a half hour from the epicenter and it didn't do anything to my house, but my parents house a few miles away is full of broken knick knacks.

... I don't have any knick knacks.

I felt it, thought it was from the construction downstairs. Then the news announced an earthquake and everyone ran outside. I went out to catch my train home and started asking people why they were out in the street when the follow-up tsunami should be here any minute. The look of panic most of them had made getting out of bed today worthwhile.