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Earthquake
Mother Nature | August 23, 2011 | My bad self

Posted on 08/23/2011 10:58:37 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Did anybody feel that one, especially if you're in Maryland or Virginia?


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To: sheikdetailfeather

5.8? Out here in central MD it didn’t feel worse than those series we had back c.1990 and those were at best 3.5.

Of course, they were centered just 5 mi from here.


21 posted on 08/23/2011 11:01:58 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Heard 5.2....up in Canada.

Listening to the Indians game...and they felt it in the booth.

Someone said the Pentagon is being evacuated??

22 posted on 08/23/2011 11:01:58 AM PDT by Osage Orange (HE HATE ME)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

South Shore Long Island ... the room vibrated for 2 minutes... I am guessing a Richter Scale 3.


23 posted on 08/23/2011 11:02:40 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’m in middle of West Virginia, felt it.


24 posted on 08/23/2011 11:03:03 AM PDT by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Im up around Cleveland and we felt it


25 posted on 08/23/2011 11:03:03 AM PDT by reed13
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

CA welcomes you to the club Easterners. Shake, rattle, and roll.


26 posted on 08/23/2011 11:03:09 AM PDT by HerrBlucher ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I thought it was the dog scratching and shaking the table, but she wasn’t under the table -— yes I felt it. Eastern Shore, VA


27 posted on 08/23/2011 11:03:48 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’m in Pittsburgh, felt it - the house shook a bit. No damage I can see.


28 posted on 08/23/2011 11:03:52 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Democrats: the Party of NO!)
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To: Osage Orange
'Someone said the Pentagon is being evacuated??

I read that on Yahoo.

29 posted on 08/23/2011 11:05:18 AM PDT by mathluv ( Conservative first and foremost, republican second - GO SARAHCUDA!!!!)
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To: FormerACLUmember
Felt it here in Va Beach. Coworkers felt it in Winchester VA and Hagerstown MD. 5.8 is the preliminary: Virginia Earthquake
30 posted on 08/23/2011 11:05:32 AM PDT by tenger (It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Harford County. Sounded and felt like a 900 lb. gorilla was going nuts upstairs. Lasted 5-8 seconds?

Never been through one before. Pretty scary.

31 posted on 08/23/2011 11:05:32 AM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik ("The trouble with internet quotations is that you don't know if they are true"-Abraham Lincoln.)
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Nevermind the epicenter, does anybody have the know-how to put areas affected on a map to see how wide-spread this was?


32 posted on 08/23/2011 11:05:35 AM PDT by wastedyears (Of course you realize, this means war.)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

Yeah, it scared me pretty good too because I realized what it was.


33 posted on 08/23/2011 11:08:07 AM PDT by wastedyears (Of course you realize, this means war.)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

I walked outside right after and dogs were barking near and far. They knew something weird was happening.


34 posted on 08/23/2011 11:08:34 AM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik ("The trouble with internet quotations is that you don't know if they are true"-Abraham Lincoln.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Felt the quake in North Central CT. I was taking a break from mowing the lawn. Sitting in my garage, I felt it and heard the house creak and saw my daughters old Wonder Horse on springs moving side to side.


35 posted on 08/23/2011 11:09:25 AM PDT by dancusa (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. W. Churchill)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I felt it in Northeast Philadelphia on the second floor of a fieldstone house. The house is built like a fortress, so I never expected anything to shake it, but I saw things moving & heard the rumble, two rumbles, actually, just lasting a few seconds, but enough to scare me out of the room. It restarted my “perpetual motion” machine, which had been dormant for months. Fifteen minutes later, it’s still going.


36 posted on 08/23/2011 11:09:43 AM PDT by Marylander (Offendiphobia)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Congrats, TSR, 1st to report on FR!


37 posted on 08/23/2011 11:11:02 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Same here, I was in the top of the house and felt it enough to make me leave the room. People working downstairs (heavy tools) didn’t feel it.


38 posted on 08/23/2011 11:12:32 AM PDT by Marylander (Offendiphobia)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We felt it in Annapolis

Kids and I were in the library when the building started to vibrate, when it kept going I knew it wasn’t a truck- then the ceiling started to vibrate and we got the heck out of dodge- lasted maybe 45 seconds to a minute

The streets were lined with people all saying “An earthquake in MARYLAND????”


39 posted on 08/23/2011 11:15:56 AM PDT by silverleaf (Common sense is not so common)
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To: Marylander

I’m in a 300 year old log house and the logs dampen *everything* and I felt it something fierce.

At first I thought my Dobermann was having a massive seizure or something because the sofa was “trembling” violently.

At the same time I put my hand over to feel his side, he jumped up and looked me in the face like he thought *I* was doing it.

The sun-catcher lead crystal prism ball thingy in the window was swinging like mad.

That was...interesting.

Now that I’ve felt an earthquake, I hope I never feel one again.

Here, it was a continuous rocking/rolling “wave” feeling.


40 posted on 08/23/2011 11:17:58 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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