felt in NY... doesn't make sense to me, does an earthquake usually resonate THAT far? do Cali earthquakes get felt in like Oregon and Washington?
Maybe his wife's car is a-rockin'... ...yeah, that mental picture is now etched into the back of your skull.
MY entire building moved, my chair was wobbling, and I am in Charlotte NC. My brother got woken up from it.
The core of the earth just stopped spinning. Someone get Aaron Eckhart, Hillary Swank and a make believe flying drill machine
Also, if I lived on the east coast I'd be A LOT more concerned about that impending Category 4 than this little shake
It travelled that far apparently because the fault line is solid, thus nowhere for the shock to be absorbed...travelled the fault line, whereas on west coast the fault lines have "tributaries" where the shock can get absorbed along the way.....according to the geologist I saw on the news
I'm in DC. Thought at first a truck ran into the building, then realized it was a quake when the floor was shaking. People here in DC are freaking out though. Not a bad experience really, other than all my employees trying to get out of work and go home Photo of the devastation:
I was driving, didn't feel a thing. My wife grabbed the kids and ran out of the house it felt so strong. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Was driving and didnt feel a thing....was listening at the exact moment to XM NFL and the host in NYC and the one in Michigan both felt it and commented on it. My Wife at her work, and Daughter at the house both felt it too. I am bummed...wanted to feel the shake a quake....not happy.
It was strong here in Maryland. I was on the 6th floor of an eight story building so it made me pretty uncomfortable... I had no idea earthquakes even happened over here.
Magnitude 5 in VA. Hmm. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/37.39.-79.-77.php
This is sort of funny: First day of class in a new building, I'd never set foot in the thing and I'm reading and this really fat young woman is walking by, maybe size 48 in men's pants fat, and I feel this sort of vibration in the floor like someone walking down the hallway in a wood house and I'm thinking: "damn girl, you really let yourself go, the floor is vibrating when you walk by and it's concrete"
[video=youtube;l1p2s5KeSz0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1p2s5KeSz0[/video] HAHA this is so funny, watch the background. Talk about having terrible timing.
Actually, it was a 5.9 FWIW. http://www.nbcwashington.com/blogs/us-world/#5.9%20Earthquake%20Rocks%20East%20Coast Thing is we're just not used to this sort of thing 'round these parts (mid-Atlantic region). Only the second time I've felt one in my life. The first was just about a year ago, same area, a four point something happened 'round 5 in the morning. Woke me up out of a dead sleep. I remember thinking "is this a frickin' earthquake?" But, it was over so quickly, I just rolled back over and went back to sleep. This time, I knew immediately. And, it lasted for like 30-40 seconds. While I'm sure the west coasters are probably laughing their a$$es off at us right about now, it was still pretty intense. Not that I need an excuse, but think I'll hit the watering hole on the way home.
I was on the 8th floor of a building that moves when the wind blows just outside of D.C. It was a fun ride. They sent us home early too, so I got that going for me.
It was only about a half a mile deep; that's shallow as hell for this magnitude quake. Contrast that with the 2001 Nisqually quake in the Seattle area, which was a 7.0 but about 26 miles deep; it still caused $1.5B in damage because of the strength, but how deep it was mitigated it. 1/2 mile deep...if this had been a 7.0 at that depth, you'd be talking toppled buildings all along the eastern seaboard and thousands of deaths, given that it happened mid-workday.
Time for the Eastern seaboard to begin talking earthquake code in addition to hurricane code for new construction and retrofit. And the most potentially destructive fault in the US isn't San Andreas in CA, it's the New Madrid fault right under St. Louis.
I didn't feel it (middle of NC) but think I was on the road at the time. Funny stuff Padre. Was also a bomb threat at a college not too far away today, those students are probably thinking bomb threat and earthquake, really?