Thanks gleeaikin.
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Posted on 08/23/2011 10:55:19 AM PDT by stockpirate
DAMN
Yep -- one of my left-leaning friends has already suggested fracking as the cause of this earthquake ... in all seriousness.
Actually, you don’t understand. The East Coast is not the same terra firma as the West Coast. The rocks are very old and when they shift, it causes monumental shaking, not rolling but shaking.
The plates here are like long rock fingers, think of the Blue Ridge Mountains if you know them, long ancient rock strata. We don’t get many quakes here, but when we do it’s very weird.
Regards,
AR
I think these eastern earthquakes are felt over a much larger region, so there are a lot more of us who have something to say. I didn't feel it where I am, but my husband, who works at UofM Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI said that some clinics there were evacuated for a brief time because, apparently, some people in those clinics felt it and were concerned. We're about 450 miles away, as the crow flies, from the epicenter of the quake. Just out of curiosity, how far away might a quake of that magnitude be felt in your neck of the woods?
That's exactly what my sister in Alexandria said. She thought the ceiling of her office was going to cave in.
That had to be freaky...glad you're OK.
We had it wrong thinking CA would fall off into the ocean. Maybe, just maybe, it’ll be D.C. instead.
In the nearby town of Culpeper, at least 1 building has collapsed, another was declared unsound and 4 were condemned. There are reports from the very small town of Mineral that the post office is gone, homes have moved off of their foundations and some brick houses have collapsed in the town of Louisa.
Sure is alot of commotion over it
That may be because nothing like this has occurred in most of these people's lifetime.
Man alive — three business trips to Cali and no quakes, but back home in Delco we were shaking like crazy today. The reason I live here is because the ground is supposed to stay put. I never thought my first quake would be here.
Very nice..... Good use for that gift.
Good work....stay safe !
There is also a 12 string guru named Gilowitz (?)
Ill see if I can find ya a piece of his work.
Also Adrian Legg is on my list of 12 string.
If ya have time look at Hoopiejohn (one word) on youtube. He’s a vet with great 12 string blues tunes. But he’s different....but well worth the listen.
When I lived in Yonkers in 1985, there was an earthquake via the Ramapo Fault which woke me up and sounded like drums pounding.....Today in Clinton NJ/Shoprite, I felt nothing.....
LMAO..... Awesome answer !
Stay Safe...
I wonder how the sentinels at the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier handled it. I imagine it would be difficult for them to do their walk with the ground moving and shaking under them.
Peest...you’re responding to someone else’s post. See my post 1,035.
My niece was just telling me about Mineral. I just drove through all of that area last month (well, Centreville) while I was visiting family and friends there. My best friend, a DC area native who lives in Reston had never experienced a quake before today. She did not like it. :)
That's where I grew up! Glad to see things are still shakin' there! ;-)
Over there you don't have Muslims driving aircraft into your buildings. When something moves and shakes here, many of us think they're at it again.
Like many other people who lived near DC on 9-11, I thought the ground was shaking because a nuke had gone off or some other catastrophe had taken place. An earthquake is also more of a concern here because we have many precious but fragile historic buildings that weren't built to California code, but are essential to our country's history. Some of us even live in extremely old houses. It feels different here too because the formation of rock is much older, and the tremors traveled a thousand miles today. So a 5.9 is a much bigger deal to us than to you.
Whew, just got home. It was a madhouse in Arlington.
The last thing I thought was earthquake. I thought someone had set off a nuke in either NYC or DC and we were getting the shockwave.
In my California experience, if you happen to be on the ground, and especially outdoors, you’d hardly feel it....just the sense of some underground rumbling.
Scotch or vodka?
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