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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: TIfanx1999 on August 23, 2011, 04:20:00 pm
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So there was an 5.9 earthquake in Sterling Virginia earlier today. I was wondering how many of our members felt it or after shocks. I was sitting on the couch downstairs watching a movie and suddenly my couch stated shaking. Having never felt an earthquake of any sort I was like wtf? I thought maybe one of our dogs had gotten behind the couch and was bumping it. I really hadn't a clue what the hell was going on. It wasn't major, but it was a bit unnerving. I can't imagine being at the center of one. I'm in N.C. fairly close to the S.C. border.
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My aunt felt it. She lives in Virginia and she texted me about it.
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It hit Maryland as well, but I didn't feel it when it hit, perhaps because I was in the car at the time.
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I didn't feel it right south of Quebec city and apparently in Quebec they didn't either. However I heard that Montreal did.
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It amazes me the distance that tremors can travel from the epicenter. It's not like this one was even really strong either. O_o
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I felt it. At first I thought it was something at the military base I live close to. (APG does a lot of artillery testing and so forth)
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Didn't felt it either, not far from where DJ is.
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It amazes me the distance that tremors can travel from the epicenter. It's not like this one was even really strong either. O_o
Yeah I agree. I was surprised Montreal even felt it considering it wasn't even 6.0.
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There was an Earthquake? I didn't notice it in southwestern Michigan.
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I did not know, and I live in TN.
I was at China for most of the After shocks of the 2008 earthquake though. It was pretty unnerving, but not that bad.
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I didn't feel it, but most of my other family members did! D:
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I didn't feel it in NE Ohio. It's too bad too. I was reading my summer reading book so I totally would have noticed it.
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That sucks Yunhua98 x.x. That one was pretty nasty from what I recall. X.x
I personally would hate if we had a 7.0 earthquake or something. I actually live at a place that is at risk of getting one between 6.0-7.0 in the next 30 years or so, apparently, because Charlevoix area that is nearby is a crater caused by a meteorite 200 millions of years ago, and since then they get quite a bunch of earthquakes. The issue though is that even a 6.2 earthquake for example could cause nasty damages in some areas, because a bunch of stuff isn't build as strong as in California, for example.
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I didn't feel anything. Apparently they did in NYC and north of me, but idk. My great aunt lives in Virginia Beach and my dad's cousin, since she lives with him, called her from work and she said "There was an earthquake?"
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The 5.9 earthquake that occurred is enough to knock things off shelves and shatter windows, so it's already pretty bad.
A perspective in MD - house was rattling, initially thought that someone was banging hard on our door... until things started to fall.
A little statue and some ceramics fell, both which were quite audible. Silly me stayed inside (didn't know that you were supposed to go outside!) :P
All this while doing SAT prep... interesting, eh? :D
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A call just came for us that there's a 1/10 chance an aftershock "similar in strength" may occur by 2 pm tomorrow. :/
I hope we hit that 9/10 chance it doesn't. :D
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Most likely :P
On my part, the house just shook a bit. Nothing fell. (Though apparently some close neighbors were a bit less lucky)
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I survived the earthquake of 8/23/11 (http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/I-survived-the-earthquake-of-82311/210259509028304)
Already over 27k -_-
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Wow. I hope you're right about the aftershocks, and that they don't come!
Supposedly, my area is overdue for a bi quake, too. Of course, when a geologist says "any day now" and it happens 500 years later they say "I told you so!" so I'm not too worried.
Oh, and I didn't feel it in Box Elder County, Utah :P Just a wee bit too far, I guess.
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Oh, and I didn't feel it in Box Elder County, Utah :P Just a wee bit too far, I guess.
Me too. I'm in Utah County tho, not Box Elder.
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Oh, hey, there's another Utah member!
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Apparently, some people in my area felt it, but I did not.
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I heard people here in Western New York felt it, I didn't though.
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Oh you East Coast-ers... we get earthquakes far bigger than that about every 10 years in California. :P
But yeah, must have been a shock since they're so rare there and not as prepared.
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Where I live is on a fault line. We NEVER get quakes. Its crazy. The last one (I think) was in like the 60s or 70s.
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Oh, hey, there's another Utah member!
Haha that's exactly what I thought when I heard you where in Box Elder. :)
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Hm I guess I didn't feel it in California? :P
I have a sister living in Alabama, who's coming out to visit in a few days../me wonders if any members are there..
EDIT: apparently there was one in Colorado, a 3.9. Didn't feel that one either.
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Well I didn't feel it as I live in California, but my gf and other friend in Pennslyvania (idk I have too many friends from Pennsylvania :P) texted me about it immediately after it happened. My gf's reaction was:
I was on the beach and i was like wtf. And then these people next to us were like EARTHQUAKE. And i was like shutup ******. And they said they're from california and thats an earthquake. So i got all jittery
I don't know about the others here who felt it but I'm guessing a somewhat similar reaction because many had never felt an earthquake before
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Felt it in MD for sure. The whole house shook and then it was over. The dog randomly started biting everyone in the house and then it happened.
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Oh you East Coast-ers... we get earthquakes far bigger than that about every 10 years in California. :P
But yeah, must have been a shock since they're so rare there and not as prepared.
^Exactly this. As I said it wasn't very strong since I'm pretty far away, but it was a "wtf is this?" moment.
Felt it in MD for sure. The whole house shook and then it was over. The dog randomly started biting everyone in the house and then it happened.
It's funny how animals have a sixth sense about these things. The dog was trying to tell you guys: "Yo some serious shit's about to go down! Why aren't you listening!???" ;D
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Wow, something about earthquakes today.
Just got one here in california. (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc71625060.html)
EDIT: according to news, it's a 3.9. Bigger than the normal stuff out here tho iirc...
EDIT2:so they're downed it to 3.6..
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Weird, lots today so far x.x
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hmm not good
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I didn't notice anything other than a sudden burst of IRC activity... I do live in another continent, after all. :P
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I don't live in the states but i heard on the news that there was an earthquake
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I felt it, sitting on my lifeguard stand in joisey
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It was ~30 minutes by car from where I live (the epicenter, at least). I was in Florida so I missed out on the apparent fun.
Having been in earthquakes before, it's kind of a joke to panic much about the actual earthquake -- but the fact one *happened* here where we never ever get them is a scary thought.
On a side note, this earthquake is spouting tons of memes, especially from California (the land of earthquakes):
(http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/memes-earthquake-in-virginia-freak-out-in-new-york.jpg)
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Hey Ashbad nice to see you back! And yeah people usually get scared when a 5.0 earthquake occurs where they live and it's the first time they experience this, even though some people are used to 5.9 or 6.0 earthquakes. I guess it's also the fact where we are sometimes stuff isn't build with earthquake in mind, so a smaller earthquake could easily take down buildings, unlike in California, for example.
Where I live the last earthquakes above 5.0 on Richter were in 1988 and 1997.
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Nice to be back :) glad I missed the quake :P apparently the people at my mom's work were crying afterwards (my mom thought the quake was actually pretty fun, since she's gone through multiple richter > 8.0 ones before)
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I see, I guess they probably got scared a lot X.x.
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Francisco just had a 4.1 this morning, and has been having little ones the past few weeks.
I didn't feel it at all cause I'm in Alberta, so I'm too far away.
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Wow, something about earthquakes today.
Just got one here in california. (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc71625060.html)
EDIT: according to news, it's a 3.9. Bigger than the normal stuff out here tho iirc...
EDIT2:so they're downed it to 3.6..
I was just about to post about that! I felt that last night. Apparently, they even stopped BART because of it too.
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Still remember that 2007 Halloween 5.6 earthquake.
Yeah mid-4.0 earthquakes are pretty fun.