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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: TequilaChaser on August 23, 2011, 01:16:07 PM
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I live in Lexington, NC ( High Rock Lake ) and this quake shook stuff off our shelves and almost toppled my monitor
that was 257 miles NNE of us........
talk about freaking out because you never been in one before.......
I hope everyone near the epicenter is OK
TC
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im talking to some buddies who are in Winchester VA, only a few hours from where it was and they are alright, just got rattled up a bit
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Yep the center of it was in a Rural Area .... lots of farmland surrounding........
they reporting it was felt as far south as Atlanta, GA and as far north as Toronto, Canada
just caught us off guard here.........
I was yelling "What the Hell?" "What the Hell?" and thought I got the washing machine off balanced or something until the monitor bout tipped over on me..... ROFL :D
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I am up here in Bucks County Pa working and felt it while Watching the special on me 262's on the history channel. First earthquake I have ever lived thru or felt
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I felt it all the way up into East Berlin Pa here, just a slight shaking but enough to notice it..
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Monterey VA here (~150 miles from Richmond), lot of shaking but nothing serious. I thought it was our Washer, but the shake was a bit much for that (foundation level of the house was shaking). Was felt in Donaldson PA too.
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I am up here in Bucks County Pa working and felt it while Watching the special on me 262's on the history channel. First earthquake I have ever lived thru or felt
Haha similar case here. About an hour north of Harrisburg and was talking to a buddy in VA when he said about shaking. Sure enough not long after we got it here and if was for him saying that I would of brushing it off as coal mine blasting.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/earthquake-measured-59-magnitude-rattles-washington-york/story?id=14364643
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Wow,
That was the coolest thing (my first felt quake). We shook here for a good 15 seconds in South Jersey!
I'm interested in looking at the fault lines near. Could be some aftershocks.
No reports of damage anywhere yet.
:cheers: Oz
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My wife felt it at home (Bridgeport, WV). I am 15 miles north at work but didn't feel anything, although I was outside at the time and not in a structure. She is kinda freaked out and her best friend is actually freaked to the point of going to pick up her kids at school. I feel cheated. :furious
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Shook my chair and monitor a bit in NYC here. Thought something was shaking me, stood up from the chair, and it was still shaking, and I was like what the balls?
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Wow,
That was the coolest thing (my first felt quake). We shook here for a good 15 seconds in South Jersey!
I'm interested in looking at the fault lines near. Could be some aftershocks.
No reports of damage anywhere yet.
:cheers: Oz
almost as a good a as a mosh pit at Ozfest
ya the house shook for about 15 seconds here as well
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A friend of mine felt it all the way up in Hanover NH, now that's a good distance from VA.
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We felt it here at work, just NE of Atlanta GA. Google maps shows its close to 500 miles away. I felt my chair start gently shaking then heard some blinds on the windows start to clink together. Some folk in the building didn't feel it at all.
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I'm in Myrtle Beach for a week, felt it here.
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I'm in Myrtle Beach for a week, felt it here.
be safe, Irene is on the way......... Krup!
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I guess all the National Parks and Monuments are closed and evacuated in Washington DC, also 2 reactors were taking off-line near the quake center.
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My wife felt it at home (Bridgeport, WV). I am 15 miles north at work but didn't feel anything, although I was outside at the time and not in a structure. She is kinda freaked out and her best friend is actually freaked to the point of going to pick up her kids at school. I feel cheated. :furious
I felt nothing.
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be safe, Irene is on the way......... Krup!
Leaving Friday or Saturday, just before it gets here. :)
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I am up here in Bucks County Pa working and felt it while Watching the special on me 262's on the history channel. First earthquake I have ever lived thru or felt
felt it here in sougth jersey. first one i can remember. the last notable one in this area happened when i was asleep....and i slept throughit....waking up with crap that used to be on my headboard, on the bed next to my head....and my reading lamp against me.....yet i never woke up.
kinda freaky when the ground under ya moves like that.
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I was on the computer at the time that it happened, knocked over my monitor and a cup of coffee. Nothing to serious though.
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I've been through three here in st louis. None serious. Two I felt (barely). The third I didn't although everyone around me was freaking out! Ten of us nearby and I was the only one who didn't notice!
I'm glad it wasn't centered in an urban area! Quakes that 'small' often don't cause much damage except near the epicenter.
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Work in Fredericksburg, VA 35 miles from epicenter. A good 15-20 seconds of shaking, knocked ceiling tiles down etc.
The Lake Anna nuclear power plant close to epicenter has been shut down.
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im just outside of Boston and we felt it up here. the building i work in, began to sway! it was weird! one of the buildings in Boston is off kilter now!
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It was felt here. Nothing but a rumble though.
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almost as a good a as a mosh pit at Ozfest
ya the house shook for about 15 seconds here as well
:rofl :rofl :aok
:cheers: Oz
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Felt it here in Connecticut. Never felt one before ... was a totally weird sensation.
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5.9 isn't that bad lol. I have a friend living down here, he was laughing at how crazy people were going.
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Pansies. :old:
Don't you guys practice earthquake drills and pack emergency kits like the more civilized and developed regions of this great country? :devil
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My wife felt it at home (Bridgeport, WV). I am 15 miles north at work but didn't feel anything, although I was outside at the time and not in a structure. She is kinda freaked out and her best friend is actually freaked to the point of going to pick up her kids at school. I feel cheated. :furious
Super-pansies. :old: :old: :aok
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Pansies. :old:
Don't you guys practice earthquake drills and pack emergency kits like the more civilized and developed regions of this great country? :devil
My thoughts exactly. :rofl
15 seconds and it stops, everyone is scared as hell, all the Californians are thinking, "Aww... the rides over?"
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Super-pansies. :old: :old: :aok
Earthquakes are fun :aok
Wait no.. :uhoh
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Pansies. :old:
Don't you guys practice earthquake drills and pack emergency kits like the more civilized and developed regions of this great country? :devil
just remember this when we're laughing at you guys trying to pretend you know how to drive in 3 feet of snow. :neener:
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just remember this when we're laughing at you guys trying to pretend you know how to drive in 3 feet of snow. :neener:
I do, living in the Sierras has benefits.
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Pansies. :old:
Don't you guys practice earthquake drills and pack emergency kits like the more civilized and developed regions of this great country? :devil
Emergency Kits? Ha! We don't need no stinkin' emergency Kits! Only one of those I keep is in the car....that's no longer with us.
Was interesting seeing as I've never felt a Quake, let alone on the East Coast, but people are certainly overreacting. Certainly a 'What the heck was that?' moment though.
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So I asked my boss if I can take the day off when the next 5.5+ tremor we have within 200 miles hits, he laughed. :ahand
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Earthquakes are fun :aok
Wait no.. :uhoh
They would be too, if everyone here stopped what they were doing and took the rest of the day off.
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just remember this when we're laughing at you guys trying to pretend you know how to drive in 3 feet of snow. :neener:
What's snow? Ice? Oh, wet stuff that's solid? Are you guys SURE you're not smoking the same stuff as we are here in California?
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Im in NJ. At first I thought I was having a dizzy spell. After a second I realized it wasnt just me. I had to ask the guy I was talkin too if he felt that too hehehehhe
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heard about it from our JROTC commander
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one would think those that are in NY or in DC would freak a lil bit....considering how close we are to the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and thinking something might have been happening again
especially when you might be in an office building 4 or 8 or 10 floors up etc.... and the building starts swaying.....
the media plays it up more than it is regarding the earthquake that hit today, even though earthquakes are a rare event for east coast citizens ( or as some of you refer to em as Pansies or Super Panzies )
I am sure most that are over reacting are the insecure types though..... that always needs someone else to tell them what to do and how to do it and when to stop etc.....
this lil bity shaker did not do anything except fractured the brick mortar joints on the SW corner of my parent's brick house...... there is about a 1/4" seperation there and it looks like steps going up if one was to draw the outline or line drawing of the separation.....
TC
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OK now you lot have some quake experience I CHALLENGE you to look at this for a few minutes: http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/all
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Leaving Friday or Saturday, just before it gets here. :)
Or Thursday, when your forced out. :D Meh I thought I was Donnie Darko, for a few seconds. <sings> the house began to shake, the earth began to quake. Personally, I've got my eye on this biatch IRENE.
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OK, enough fun with this one.... well maybe not, but if I keep this up and we have "the big one" in the next 24 hours, people are gonna take my hide for the raft they'll be using to sail back to the mainland... :rolleyes:
Hoping everyone calms down and their day gets better over there, probabley gonna be a few with a restless night tonight, especialy those close enough to feel the aftershocks (any nights like that here in Cali, I sleep in a hammock outside between two trees after/if I get tired of being woken up every 10-20 minutes).
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I live about ~55 miles away from the epicenter it was really cool. Never thought I would feel one especially on the east coast. First I thought it was a low flying plane becuase it was seriously rattling the ceiling and we were right in the pattern for Dulles Airport, but i couldn't hear any engines. My friends and I ran outside and decided it was an earthquake.
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The devastation of this horrific quake is unprecedented! Oh the humanity!
(http://i.imgur.com/jMySO.jpg)
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Columbia, SC here. Definitely felt it, took a few moments to register that it was an earthquake, and I was completely awestruck
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So I asked my boss if I can take the day off when the next 5.5+ tremor we have within 200 miles hits, he laughed. :ahand
one of my customers came early to pick up his car...said they got sent home early. he works for the epa.
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My mom lives in the same county as the earthquake (Louisa). A school roof collapsed and a few other things damaged, nothing bad, the media loves to make things look worse than they are.
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Im in NJ. At first I thought I was having a dizzy spell. After a second I realized it wasnt just me. I had to ask the guy I was talkin too if he felt that too hehehehhe
Hey pipz where you at in NJ? Next time Im out to see relatives maybe we can get a beer. :salute
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Everyone at work was laughing at the video of a DA press conference (I think) - we were all like "Where's the quake". pansies :D
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we felt it pretty good here in Southern MD, our hangar was shaking for a bit. At first we thought there was an acft accident here on base.
Next up, the hurricane this weekend.
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I felt it very faintly for about 20 seconds all the way up in Montreal at my bank. The 2 with me were feeling it as well.
Seems a lot of dramatic pictures of quake damage are flowing around the web now... such as this:
(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk252/babaganoosh69/neverforget.jpg)
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"That earthquake wouldn't even make the kids menu here out west"
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Brother in Poland, Ohio felt it.
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Feeling an earthquake on the east coast is like having a snow storm in los Angeles
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was there an aftershock of this quake? at about 9:15 this morning i felt the house shaking up here in oshkosh. :headscratch:
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My thoughts exactly. :rofl
15 seconds and it stops, everyone is scared as hell, all the Californians are thinking, "Aww... the rides over?"
Well I remember a few months back, where some of you Californians got all excited about a 2ft Tsunami that came ashore. :rolleyes:
Cracks have been reported in the Washignton monument and other centuries old structures. Most average East Coaster's, probably thought what the fudge was that a plane? With over 100 million feeling it I guess it became big news. Us east coasters now have a CAT2-3 hurricane to deal with so spare me your stupid responses. TY
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I'm in Myrtle Beach for a week, felt it here.
Pfft My sister is going down to Charleston, tomorrow where it looks like the storm will pass. I'll be here in Maryland, watching water come into her apartment. :rolleyes:
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The hurricane is supposed to be more of a threat in Lancaster, PA where I live than here in Myrtle Beach. :lol
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(http://i.imgur.com/yMi7Z.jpg)
Or this one:
"Spock is not impressed with your earthquake damage."
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqeiwa4k2M1r0bxv9o1_500.png)
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I'm sure the twangy girl tour guide at Luray Caverns was saying "if you use yermagination, you might think you were being buried alive".
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(http://i.imgur.com/yMi7Z.jpg)
Or this one:
"Spock is not impressed with your earthquake damage."
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqeiwa4k2M1r0bxv9o1_500.png)
Second one made me laugh. :aok
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The hurricane is supposed to be more of a threat in Lancaster, PA where I live than here in Myrtle Beach. :lol
looks like cape may is directly in her sights.
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I am just glad my beer didnt get knocked over and spilled!!! :furious
I live in central Pa and was busy doing stuff, never noticed it.........I got a phone call from a friend and asked if I heard about the quake and I said "what quake?"