Today I was shaken...Frankly I preferred to be Stirred.


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At approximately 1:50 PM EDT, this afternoon, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred along the Eastern coastline.    THE COMPANY I WORK FOR  offices in Virginia, Washington DC, New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusets felt the tremors and continue to feel the aftershocks.  The offices in Reston and Delaware have been dismissed for the day and will return to work tomorrow.  Thank you.

Edited because I forgot to add...

Yes we felt it and it wasn't wimpy... people from upstairs in our building came running out.  Copiers that way a ton and vending machines were a wobbling not to mention cubicles and monitors.

Pic of devastation from DC:

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I was cleaning my bathroom....felt not a thing......my 14 y/o 2 stories up felt the house move and she freaked out.

I miss everything. <sigh>

Hmmmmm...... THAT must have been what caused it.   A MAN cleaning made the earth move ;D

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It cleared out city hall and some other stuff here but while I was riding the bus over one of our sink hole like streets, I felt nary a thing.

This happened a couple years ago too.....while I was.......on a bus....... :o

Charlie

  Charlie...  the next time you ride a bus warn the rest of us.   :D   

Jeannie wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 5:18pm:

Hmmmmm...... THAT must have been what caused it.   A MAN cleaning made the earth move ;D

Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie.... ;D

Pic of devastation from DC:

All that devastation in DC will probably cost the taxpayers million$ to repair.

Really all this excitement over a 5.8 quake??? Come on East Coast, we have those for breakfast out here!!!!  :D

I think we're pretty used to earthquakes here on the West Coast, so we ignore most of them. But, I'm honestly glad we don't have hurricanes, blizzards, and tornadoes. Those freak me out.  8-)

A 5.8 will definately get your attention.  It would even have Californicators moving toward the door.

A geologist was on TV in San Diego this morning. Said a 5.8 back east was felt harder, and farther then we'd have felt it here. Our crust is criss crossed with faults, and the earth quakes dissipate fast. Back east, it's rock solid and the waves travel uninterrupted! :o

So you're forgiven for running in circles screaming the sky is falling.  ;D

Joe

No looting in the city. After all, Congress was out of town.  8-)

Charlie

Charlie wrote on Aug 24^th, 2011 at 11:58am:

No looting in the city. After all, Congress was out of town.  8-) Charlie

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Charlie wrote on Aug 24^th, 2011 at 11:58am:

No looting in the city. After all, Congress was out of town.  8-) Charlie

I just love you Charlie!!! ;D

Guiseppi wrote on Aug 24^th, 2011 at 9:37am:

A geologist was on TV in San Diego this morning. Said a 5.8 back east was felt harder, and farther then we'd have felt it here. Our crust is criss crossed with faults, and the earth quakes dissipate fast. Back east, it's rock solid and the waves travel uninterrupted!

True, Jezep.  Just from the responses here, it was felt all the way to western NY, into PA, and down to NC.  The west coast crust is so broken up, the quake would have been far more centralized, like hitting a bag of marbles.  In the east, like hitting a gong.



:)   Earthquake warning sirens:

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Odd of the lions, but quietly smart.

I was at work in MA. My co workers, recovering from recent tornado, bracing for Irene, were no amused. We didn't feel it like in VA, but it was a good roller.

Just talked to a friend who works on a fifth floor, it was felt here.  A quake felt for the first time can be a startling uneasy moment if thinking it's just you and worrying what's going on.  About everybody here would be strange to quaking.  One previous experience with a shaker in Cal and the cables swaying overhead helped him situate the unordinary feeling even a small tremor has, usually to ask wide-eyed, "Did you feel that?"

Kevin_M wrote on Aug 27^th, 2011 at 11:49pm:

A quake felt for the first time can be a startling uneasy moment if thinking it's just you and worrying what's going on.

I totally agree with you. My first experience of an earthquake was in Wales, UK (magnitude 5.4) and I had zero idea what was happening. Since I was camping next to a railway line, I thought a train had derailed and yet I was confused on looking out of the tent to see everything looking normal, until I saw a newspaper later that day.

You just don't forget your first time!

Once you've experienced a few you can instantly recognize what is happening, just hoping that it stays relatively mild and doesn't get any worse.