Did the world shake for Emily Miller

[Bazzle]

I hope the earthquake in her neck of the woods was survivable and did not interrupt her writing?

 

[AwkwardlySet]

A mere 5.1 is insufficient to scare a proper nerd. I bet that during the quake she was doing calculations about energy released

 

[KeithD]

Emily lives in Taiwan?

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Emily lives in Taiwan?

Jersey

 

[StillStunned]

Jersey

From what I've heard about the place, most earthquakes would bring only improvement.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Jersey

Not the one off the coast of Britain, but the newer one west of New York. So it was about a 4.8 centered on a town in the northern part of the state. I felt it in New York and someone I know felt it on the Jersey shore.. There was another similar one around 2011. By tomorrow the news cycle will be on something else.

 

[Bazzle]

Emily lives in Taiwan?

New Jersey is what she has said previously.

 

[gunhilltrain]

From what I've heard about the place, most earthquakes would bring only improvement.

Where do you live again? I'd nominate other states as worse. I won't mention them because some Litsters may live in them.

 

[StillStunned]

Where do you live again? I'd nominate other states as worse. I won't mention them because some Litsters may live in them.

This week I'm in the State of Intoxication.

 

[MrPixel]

As a California ex-pat, I can speak with some authority that a 5.1 can be quite a ride. I guess I need to check the news feeds about this one.

EDIT: Ah. Official sources now have it as a 4.7, centered in NW New Jersey. One interviewee said it lasted longer than her past experiences, so my edu-guess it was a "rolling" type quake. Those can be fun, provided the ceiling plaster isn't about to fall down on you.

 

[12oclocktales]

From what I've heard about the place, most earthquakes would bring only improvement.

Jersey is the country’s designated laughingstock; lucky for the rest of the country it exists so people can point fingers and groan and mock and not have to admit how fucked up their state is. – Jersey Boy

 

[intim8]

Ssssh! Don't tell her it was an earthquake. She thought it was the best sex of her life, and now you've ruined it.

 

[alohadave]

I felt it, several states away from NJ. My desk swayed for a few seconds, but I didn't feel anything myself.

 

[gunhilltrain]

As a California ex-pat, I can speak with some authority that a 5.1 can be quite a ride. I guess I need to check the news feeds about this one.

EDIT: Ah. Official sources now have it as a 4.7, centered in NW New Jersey. One interviewee said it lasted longer than her past experiences, so my edu-guess it was a "rolling" type quake. Those can be fun, provided the ceiling plaster isn't about to fall down on you.

It's even less fun when the entire building, or the freeway you're driving on, falls down on you.

Oakland, 1989. Forty-two fatalities at this location.

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[AwkwardlySet]

I felt it, several states away from NJ. My desk swayed for a few seconds, but I didn't feel anything myself.

How the hell did you feel a 5.1 across several states? As someone who has experienced more than a few 4+ and 5+ magnitude earthquakes, I can testify that a 5.1 earthquake won't be felt from more than about 200 km distance, although the terrain plays some role here.

 

[Bazzle]

How the hell did you feel a 5.1 across several states? As someone who has experienced more than a few 4+ and 5+ magnitude earthquakes, I can testify that a 5.1 earthquake won't be felt from more than about 200 km distance, although the terrain plays some role here.

Fault lines and P and S waves...

 

[intim8]

How the hell did you feel a 5.1 across several states?

The waves travel further through the crust in the eastern US than they do in the west. The crust in the west is more folded and broken up, all those mountains, and the waves don't travel as efficiently through that. The big New Madrid (MO) quake back in the 1800s rang church bells on the east coast. There was one in the 90s, I think in the 5's, that did very minor damage in Chicago 400 miles away - things falling off shelves, stuff like that - but it was felt.

And, the states in the east are a lot smaller, so the same distance covers more of them than in the west.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Fault lines and P and S waves...

You can't feel P waves. S waves are felt, but it's the Rayleigh and Love surface waves that do most of the shaking and damage. The terrain plays a role for sure but distance is indomitable in this sense as the waves lose energy as they progress.

 

[NotWise]

How the hell did you feel a 5.1 across several states? As someone who has experienced more than a few 4+ and 5+ magnitude earthquakes, I can testify that a 5.1 earthquake won't be felt from more than about 200 km distance, although the terrain plays some role here.

Deep epicenter in rigid rock.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

The waves travel further through the crust in the eastern US than they do in the west. The crust in the west is more folded and broken up, all those mountains, and the waves don't travel as efficiently through that. The big New Madrid (MO) quake back in the 1800s rang church bells on the east coast. There was one in the 90s, I think in the 5's, that did very minor damage in Chicago 400 miles away - things falling off shelves, stuff like that - but it was felt.

And, the states in the east are a lot smaller, so the same distance covers more of them than in the west.

That's some interesting data about US geology. Where I live, 150 miles is about the limit for even sensing a 5.0 quake, let alone the quake doing some damage.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Deep epicenter in rigid rock.

My five bucks say someone will use this as a lewd line in their story

 

[MrPixel]

It's even less fun when the entire building, or the freeway you're driving on, falls down on you.

Loma Prieta, a/k/a the "World Series Earthquake". We were driving on I-880 the week before. No comparison. A 7.0 is 100X stronger than a 5.0. Decimated one of our favorite beach towns, Santa Cruz.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Loma Prieta, a/k/a the "World Series Earthquake". We were driving on I-880 the week before. No comparison. A 7.0 is 100X stronger than a 5.0. Decimated one of our favorite beach towns, Santa Cruz.

To be precise, a 7.0 has a hundred times the amplitude of a 5.0, but the energy released is actually 1000 times greater.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Jersey is the country’s designated laughingstock; lucky for the rest of the country it exists so people can point fingers and groan and mock and not have to admit how fucked up their state is. – Jersey Boy

Still not as bad as the other side of the Hudson. We're getting serious about fare evasion over here.

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[intim8]

My five bucks say someone will use this as a lewd line in their story

His rigid rock hit her deep epicenter and wracked her body with tectonic tremors.