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East Coast Earth Quake
Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 4:39pm

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.

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Brew CH.com Sponsor CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 14163	Re: East Coast Earth Quake Reply #1 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 4:56pm Pic of devastation from DC: Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or
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Racer1_NC CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline "Well, let's go see." Posts: 4417 Lewisville, NC Gender:	Re: East Coast Earth Quake Reply #2 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 5:12pm 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>
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Jeannie CH.com Sponsor Offline Live, Laugh, Love.... Posts: 2333 St Louis, Missouri Gender:	Re: East Coast Earth Quake Reply #3 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 5:18pm Hmmmmm...... THAT must have been what caused it. A MAN cleaning made the earth move
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Re: East Coast Earth Quake
Reply #4 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 5:33pm

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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....... Shocked

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JustNotRight CH.com Sponsor Offline CH version 15.0.8 member since 2005 aka GingerS224 Posts: 1300 Wilkes-Barre, Pa (USA) Gender:	Re: East Coast Earth Quake Reply #5 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 8:06pm Charlie... the next time you ride a bus warn the rest of us.
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LasVegas CH.com Sponsor Offline Episodic CH since 11 yrs old, now 50. Posts: 2020 north of the 60th parallel Gender:	Re: East Coast Earth Quake Reply #8 - Aug 24^th, 2011 at 2:41am Really all this excitement over a 5.8 quake??? Come on East Coast, we have those for breakfast out here!!!! 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.
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Bob P CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Shut up Bob! Posts: 4573 Clio,California Gender:	Re: East Coast Earth Quake Reply #9 - Aug 24^th, 2011 at 8:16am A 5.8 will definately get your attention. It would even have Californicators moving toward the door.
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Re: East Coast Earth Quake
Reply #10 - 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! Shocked

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

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Re: East Coast Earth Quake
Reply #14 - Aug 25^th, 2011 at 1:06am

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.

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Re: East Coast Earth Quake
Reply #16 - Aug 27^th, 2011 at 11:49pm

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?"

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Re: East Coast Earth Quake
Reply #17 - Aug 28^th, 2011 at 1:52am

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.

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