We experienced a 5.8 earthquake on August 23, 2011. The damage was not too severe but the President responded the next morning with this.
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.....
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.
Whew, just got home. It was a madhouse in Arlington.
There’s a message to the DC and White House in all this. I wonder if anyone realizes it.
I was working in Hershey Pa at one of the outpatient labs and it shook the walls pretty good for a few seconds. First time I have ever experienced an earthquake. It was pretty amazing.
Obama’s fault.
We told them to leave Israel alone!
(from a thread sometime back in June)
It hit Pittsburgh. Some older buildings lost some bricks. Haven’t heard of any major damage.
The earth moved in VA and I’ll just bet everyone in DC wants a nice, stiff stimulus to calm their nerves.
I work in Southeast DC. Our building shook pretty good for close to 30 seconds. I’ve lived in the DC area my whole life and have never felt anything like it.
I work in Southeast DC. Our building shook pretty good for close to 30 seconds. I’ve lived in the DC area my whole life and have never felt anything like it.
Looks like there was a 4.2 aftershock.
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Major-Monuments-Closed-in-DC-for-Quake-128275528.html
Cracks found In Washington Monument - Closed until further notice...
When Marion Barry & Charlie Sheen heard of crack @ Washington Monument, they rushed right down there...
We felt it in Pittsburgh. My office is on the fifth floor. It was pretty cool.
A coworker said, "That was an earthquake."
I agreed, looked at the USGS site and saw it listed.
Wow, we’ve had a good bit of activity in the past day:
MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
deg LON
deg DEPTH
km LOCATION
MAP 3.4 2011/08/24 04:45:26 37.925 -77.994 4.9 11 km ( 7 mi) S of Louisa, VA
MAP 4.2 2011/08/24 00:04:36 37.912 -77.951 7.9 11 km ( 7 mi) SSW of Mineral, VA
MAP 2.2 2011/08/23 19:20:26 37.911 -78.004 0.1 13 km ( 8 mi) S of Louisa, VA
MAP 2.8 2011/08/23 18:46:50 37.931 -77.935 0.1 9 km ( 5 mi) SSW of Mineral, VA
MAP 5.8 2011/08/23 17:51:04 37.936 -77.933 6.0 8 km ( 5 mi) SSW of Mineral, VA
I’m in Annapolis this week - had two tremors, a slight one for about 10 secs and then a second more substantial one for 15-20 secs ...
With the first one, I was not sure if it was a tremor or a tree that hit the house [I am in a forested community right now] - but when the second one was shaking all the walls, I knew it was a quake ...
Not bad though, lived in SF for 2 years growing up and we had a couple of about the same size - no big deal ...
We experienced a 5.8 earthquake on August 23, 2011. The damage was not too severe but the President responded the next morning with this.
Felt it up here in Detroit. Freaky fun!