Earthquake!

[RjThoughts]

Upstate NY here, 140 miles NORTH of NYC. We felt it here. Scared my 17-year-old son, was ready to run out of the house, unsure our old house could stand the shaking.

Shows to go you that we in upstate get EVERYTHING: quakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards.

 

[lovecraft68]

Felt it here in RI. I was sitting on the forklift thinking damn this thing is running rough when I noticed the stacks of cartons shaking only lasted maybe 30 seconds or maybe that was all I noticed.

 

[michchick98]

I didn't feel it here and none of my co-workers said they felt anything either. But, reports on the local news had people in the Ann Arbor area (about 35 miles southwest of where I work) reporting they felt a bit of a shimmy.

I felt the one last year that was centered near Quebec. My co-workers thought I was crazy when I said the steel assembly line that's bolted into concrete moved.

 

[annanova]

As far north as Toronto, if my FB feed is to be believed.

That's certainly what half the news was covering while I was at my dental appt, and there were lots of people calling the news channels to talk about it. I was working on my story at a coffee shop patio at the time of the quake and felt nothing.

Of course, I also grew up on the Pacific Rim, so... this wasn't much in my experience.

 

[leahsgirl84]

I didn't feel anything in Cleveland, although other around people said they did feel something.

 

[trysail]

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[AngeloMichael]

Felt it here in eastern Maryland. I just stayed sitting in my chair like a dummy watching my shelves shake and feeling the house sway back and forth.

About 5 seconds before it stopped it finally registered in my brain we were having an earthquake.

No damage, no outages, everything's cool here.

 

[sr71plt]

A 5.3 quake in Colorado too--epicenter near Trinidad, about 180 miles south of Denver.

 

[TxRad]

Earthquakes are wider felt on the east coast because of the Americas Plate (I think that is the proper name) is far larger and all one piece as apposed to California jigsaw puzzle of a fractured plate. It is also why a 5.8-5.9 does more damage on the East coast. No breaks to dampen the shaking.

 

[trysail]

A little perspective:

...A 5.8-magnitude quake releases as much energy as almost eight kilotons of TNT, about half the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The earthquake that devastated Japan earlier this year released more than 60,000 times as much energy as Tuesday's...

 

[Cruel2BKind]

nope

you asked, I answered

 

[sr71plt]

You can relax, Trysail. Nobody's hypventilating over the earthquake on this forum (although some are doing so in the news). That doesn't mean it's not an unusual event for those of us on the East Coast.

But, of course, not nearly exciting as all of those Chicken Little economic charts you steal and dump on the board.

 

[sr71plt]

Speaking of earthquakes--we just had another one here (just this minute). Not as strong as the first and lasting only about six seconds.

 

[3113]

Speaking of earthquakes--we just had another one here (just this minute). Not as strong as the first and lasting only about six seconds.

Ah, the joy of aftershocks.

 

[fuckwaffle]

Anyone else feel the earthquake ten minutes ago (1:55 Eastern Time)? 5.8, with the epicenter between Charlottesville and Richmond, VA. The news is saying it was felt from Washington, D.C., down to North Carolina. It certainly was felt here in Charlottesville. Lasted for a good thirty seconds.

I've been through worse in Japan and Thailand, but this one was a surprise.

So all the others you have experienced you knew about before hand?

 

[sr71plt]

So all the others you have experienced you knew about before hand?

Is this a trick question? Periodic earthquakes are no surprise in either Tokyo or Bangkok, so they didn't come as a surprise. Today's earthquake on the U.S. East Coast is the strongest one there in forty-four years. Are you surprised by something that happens that hasn't happened like that for forty-four years? (Careful. It's a trick question.)

 

[fuckwaffle]

Is this a trick question? Periodic earthquakes are no surprise in either Tokyo or Bangkok, so they didn't come as a surprise. Today's earthquake on the U.S. East Coast is the strongest one there in forty-four years. Are you surprised by something that happens that hasn't happened like that for forty-four years? (Careful. It's a trick question.)

I bet you were once the CEO of Enron.

 

[sr71plt]

I bet you were once the CEO of Enron.

And I'll bet you once had a brain.

 

[fuckwaffle]

And I'll bet you once had a brain.

Ouch.

So what are you 12?

 

[TE999]

No quakes down here, just hurricanes.

 

[sr71plt]

Ouch.

So what are you 12?

Well, I'm not one of trysail's alts.

 

[fuckwaffle]

Well, I'm not one of trysail's alts.

So you are 12.

 

[sr71plt]

So you are 12.

I wouldn't mind going around again. Thanks for the opportunity.

 

[fuckwaffle]

 

[estragon]

I see we're back to normal, no casualties (thank God), just the usual.