Did you feel that?
We just had a little earthquake in Cherry Hill Nj
My Aunt in MD felt it, and people in Brigantine too
Here in Ohio. We all thought someone snuck behind us to shake our chairs.
We felt nothing, but the local news is reporting it was felt in their building
My cube neighbor points out tiny tremors to me sometimes, that I don't even detect.
This one was weird. Cube walls shaking. Chair felt like one of those crazy exercise chairs (albeit set on low.)
Hope everyone is OK.
glatt?
I hope they're OK. I bet they're outside for a while.
check in ok guise?
Yeah, check in.
I bet you're right, had to leave the building, by the stairs.
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I just read on CNN about Colorado having earthquakes this morning.
Really? The apocalypse? Thank FSM. I want outta here.
Is this closer to glatt's home than work?
nope. didn't feel it.
as often happens, I learned of this newsworthy event from the cellar before I heard about it from other media. I do have the radio on tuned to the news, but it broke here first for me. cnn.com is CRUSHED for this story. (the link to the story, not their building. do not panic).
hope you're all ok!
Is this closer to glatt's home than work?
Yeah, I thought he lived in VA, worked in DC. ANd Happy Monkey does both in DC. But they're saying DC felt it pretty strong, and some spires on the National Cathedral were damaged.
Don't worry - I felt nothing.
I don't think it made it to Indiana either.
I'm fine. I was coming back from a camping trip with the kids, and stopped in a hardware store near my house to pick up some things. Lots more smokers than usual standing outside the next door bar. Walked into the hardware store and the caulk was all over the floor. I asked if there was an earthquake, and the clerk looked at me like I was an idiot.
I decided to forget the hardware store and head home right away. Everything appears to be fine here.
I just wish everyone would get off the phones. I'm expecting a call from my wife to come pick her up at some point, and I can't reach her because the circuits are all busy.
I certainly felt it... I work in downtown DC. Just about to get on the elevator. The door opened and the elevator was just shimmying and banging in the shaft, the floors were swaying... and this is inside the Treasury Bldg.
We felt nothing, but the local news is reporting it was felt in their building
Everybody felt it in our building.
USGS report
theres a map of recent earthquakes too, reasonble sized one on the Colorado New Mexico border this morning
There are some interesting reports rolling in from around Virginia
(although this thing was large enough to allegedly be felt from Boston to Atlanta).
MOST interesting is this report from FOX news saying the Washington Monument might be "tilting."
no corroboration available as of yet
to the left, no doubt.
you will be waiting a LONG time for corroboration. be sure not to mistake an echo for an independent verification...
That was classic. Literally.
Yeah, I thought he lived in VA, worked in DC. ANd Happy Monkey does both in DC. But they're saying DC felt it pretty strong, and some spires on the National Cathedral were damaged.
I actually work in VA.
I felt it. It was definitely the strongest I've felt, as an East Coaster. Apparently traffic is insane from all the people heading home early.
But "strongest I've felt" isn't saying much. The trees outside barely moved, and I know at least one person who didn't feel it at all.
Good fodder for office chat, though.
Checking in From upstate ny. We felt it an hour north of Albany.
Sam, you okay? I didn't feel anything, but I am quite far from the Colorado-NM border.
Nothing here, but news services saying the pentagon was evacuated.
the pentagon was evacuated.
They should have locked the doors immediately. Perhaps we would have gotten lucky.
Yep, felt it.
I had gone out for my walk (did 2.25 miles today, short one, yesterday was a 4 miler), and had finished taking my shower and was laying in bed watching some stuff on netflix. I had just finished a phone call with a friend, and wondered how an animal had gotten into my room and was messing around under my bed ... then the tubs of books started rocking around and I was worried that either they were going to fall on me, or that something structually really bad had happened above me in the highrise I live in, like a light plane or helicopter flew into it, or a runaway truck smacked into the wall (I'm on the very end of the building and most likely site for a runaway truck to hit, naturally).
When plaster didn't fall off the ceiling, my first thought was "Earthquake."
I grabbed my phone and hit the USGS site and saw the report for the epicenter in Virginia for a 5.8. One of my friends lives about 10 miles from me, said her macaw went nuts and panicked, but her rabbits (four of them) just kept on munching hay like nothing was going on. She didn't mention the guinea pigs.
We get one or two of these a year in the Philadelphia area, most of them I've slept through, but this was clearly the strongest.
It was quite cool to be able to enter a witness report on USGS, though.
I felt it down here in Raleigh. I was outside sitting in the courtyard on my lunch break. I figured it was just the fountain that was close by. I thought something was going on with the plumbing. Then, some of the companies cleared out of some of the surrounding buildings, but not for too long. I was still outside when they all went back in..
They should have locked the doors immediately. Perhaps we would have gotten lucky.
Amen to that.
Didn't feel it, but in retrospect, a dog was howling, I thought I heard thunder, and a car alarm went of. December 21, 2112, here we come. ;)
In hindsight, I'm really pretty damn pleased with how our house fared in the earthquake. Our house is unreinforced masonry construction. The absolute worst type of building to be in when there is an earthquake. This earthquake was the biggest one in this area in something like 150 years. I know you can't predict quakes, but there probably won't be another one this size in this area in my lifetime.
I've been slightly worried about our house in an earthquake ever since we bought the place, and we survived this one with flying colors. A couple hairline cracks in the interior plaster walls got a little more defined, and a couple hanging pictures were a little askew, but that's it. Oh, and one of the (many) squeaky floorboards got a little squeakier.
I was sure that a newly acquired family heirloom antique clock on the top shelf of one of our bookcases would be laying on the floor in pieces when we got home, but it hadn't budged.
I don't understand it. Maybe we are on a pocket of clay that dampens the vibrations or something. Who knows? But this POS house made it through the worst quake since it was built without any problems. Sweet.
They are not sure about aftershocks, is there a better place for the clock?
We felt it in my office. It was a very weird feeling. I knew my office chair was rocking, but I could also sense that the building was moving. Figured pretty much immediately that it was an earthquake. At least 3 or 4 of us simultaneously said "what the f*ck was THAT?"
They are not sure about aftershocks, is there a better place for the clock?
Yeah, as soon as I came in the door, I took it down, and laid it on its back on the coffee table. It would have to be a very serious quake to hurt it there, and we'd have bigger problems then.
In hindsight, I'm really pretty damn pleased with how our house fared in the earthquake. Our house is unreinforced masonry construction. The absolute worst type of building to be in when there is an earthquake. This earthquake was the biggest one in this area in something like 150 years. I know you can't predict quakes, but there probably won't be another one this size in this area in my lifetime.
I've been slightly worried about our house in an earthquake ever since we bought the place, and we survived this one with flying colors. A couple hairline cracks in the interior plaster walls got a little more defined, and a couple hanging pictures were a little askew, but that's it. Oh, and one of the (many) squeaky floorboards got a little squeakier.
I was sure that a newly acquired family heirloom antique clock on the top shelf of one of our bookcases would be laying on the floor in pieces when we got home, but it hadn't budged.
I don't understand it. Maybe we are on a pocket of clay that dampens the vibrations or something. Who knows? But this POS house made it through the worst quake since it was built without any problems. Sweet.
clay is dense so I think it would transmit vibrations, especially if wet. Not sure about sand and gravel.
Or Rock and Roll.
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God, I hate that song. My roommate freshman year loved it. Played it all the time.
The animals at the National Zoo respond.
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/PressMaterials/PressReleases/NZP/2011/earthquake.cfm
sample:
Great Apes
The earthquake hit the Great Ape House and Think Tank Exhibit during afternoon feeding time.
About five to ten seconds before the quake, many of the apes, including Kyle (an orangutan) and Kojo (a Western lowland gorilla), abandoned their food and climbed to the top of the tree-like structure in the exhibit.
About three seconds before the quake, Mandara (a gorilla) let out a shriek and collected her baby, Kibibi, and moved to the top of the tree structure as well.
Iris (an orangutan) began “belch vocalizing”—an unhappy/upset noise normally reserved for extreme irritation—before the quake and continued this vocalization following the quake.
clay is dense so I think it would transmit vibrations, especially if wet. Not sure about sand and gravel.
Any kind of sediment is bad; the waves will be bigger and the material will be more likely to break up or liquify. You want your foundations directly attached to solid bedrock.
Oh and
Did you feel that?
Said the bishop to the actress.
We felt it here in Raleigh - thought perhaps it was a helicopter flying overhead or our AC being off kilter. The dogs slept through it.
God, I hate that song. My roommate freshman year loved it. Played it all the time.
I felt badly about putting it up. I didn't even listen to it when I got the link. IMO it is an indefensible song, a travesty. All the musicians involved in that song should get the musical industry's version of the Pete Rose treatment; BANNED FOR LIFE and give back any awards, no rock HOF either.
That song was and still is brutally crappy.
mea culpa...
that is the worst song ever to be popular. I've been saying that for years.
Shunning is too gentle. I'm thinking blanket party.
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they are using bars of soap wrapped in towels or socks, but for Starship, I'm thinking 3 or 4 golf balls each.
I felt badly about putting it up. I didn't even listen to it when I got the link. .....
mea culpa...
Well, don't feel too bad, I didn't listen to it either. Just saw the title.
that is the worst song ever to be popular. I've been saying that for years.
Shunning is too gentle. I'm thinking blanket party.
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they are using bars of soap wrapped in towels or socks, but for Starship, I'm thinking 3 or 4 golf balls each.
Or the Oranges scene from the Grifters:
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f3, I could have used a warning before that