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Earthquake Wash DC VA Maryland - Pentagon Evacuated, Mag 5.8
FR / WTOP Washington, DC ^ | 2011-08-23

Posted on 08/23/2011 11:03:24 AM PDT by rabscuttle385

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To: apillar
It must have been a big one, we felt it wear I work, in Charleston, WV over three hundred miles away! It was a sizable jolt, the building was shaking pretty good.

I'm in Charleston too but didn't feel anything odd. Anyone notice any earthquake swarms before this?

41 posted on 08/23/2011 11:12:00 AM PDT by Avalon Hussar
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To: RadiationRomeo

Obama’s “DEBT DEFICIT” reaching ‘EARTHQUAKE’ proportions now.


42 posted on 08/23/2011 11:12:08 AM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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To: rabscuttle385

That wasn’t an earthquake, that was the DNC seeing 0’s latest poll numbers


43 posted on 08/23/2011 11:12:18 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Red_Devil 232
Gee, A hurricane headed their way and now an earthquake - someone sending a message?

It's the middle of hurricane season and there's a hurricane; shocking.

And the earthquake occured in a known seismic zone:

EARTHQUAKES IN THE CENTRAL VIRGINIA SEISMIC ZONE Central Virginia Seismic Zone Since at least 1774, people in central Virginia have felt small earthquakes and suffered damage from infrequent larger ones. The largest damaging earthquake (magnitude 4.8) in the seismic zone occurred in 1875. Smaller earthquakes that cause little or no damage are felt each year or two. Earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S., although less frequent than in the western U.S., are typically felt over a much broader region. East of the Rockies, an earthquake can be felt over an area as much as ten times larger than a similar magnitude earthquake on the west coast. A magnitude 4.0 eastern U.S. earthquake typically can be felt at many places as far as 100 km (60 mi) from where it occurred, and it infrequently causes damage near its source. A magnitude 5.5 eastern U.S. earthquake usually can be felt as far as 500 km (300 mi) from where it occurred, and sometimes causes damage as far away as 40 km (25 mi).

44 posted on 08/23/2011 11:12:21 AM PDT by Strategerist (There is only so much stupidity one man can prevent - Andrew Marshall)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

The last real bad one was what, 95 or 96?

My house had stuff all over the floor....bookcases, etc : )


45 posted on 08/23/2011 11:12:42 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: All

Eathquake weather?


46 posted on 08/23/2011 11:12:51 AM PDT by troy McClure
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To: Deo volente
LOL. Scott Pelley of CBS News just asssured the viewers it was a “mild earthquake”.

That's like a "mild heart attack", ain't no such thing.

47 posted on 08/23/2011 11:13:02 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Red_Devil 232

My thoughts exactly.


48 posted on 08/23/2011 11:13:02 AM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: Michael Barnes

I feel cheated. I didn’t feel a thing.


49 posted on 08/23/2011 11:13:02 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Strategerist

That dam is less than 3 miles away.


50 posted on 08/23/2011 11:13:05 AM PDT by tcrlaf (PREFRONTAL LOBOTOMISTS FOR OBAMA2012!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Felt it up here in New Jersey.


51 posted on 08/23/2011 11:13:13 AM PDT by ZULU (McConnell and Boehner are the Judas and Ephialtes of the 21st Century)
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To: rabscuttle385

Bush’s fault


52 posted on 08/23/2011 11:13:31 AM PDT by rhinohunter
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To: rabscuttle385

I live about 5km from the epicenter... knocked stuff off of walls and tables but no structural damage...


53 posted on 08/23/2011 11:13:32 AM PDT by jeffo (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1372399/posts)
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To: Cementjungle
Pentagon evacuated after possible earthquake

Do they mean "alleged earthquake"? Are they afraid to offend earthquakes? Maybe they should say they have a "phenomenon of interest"?

54 posted on 08/23/2011 11:13:38 AM PDT by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: Avalon Hussar
This region is not an earthquake zone

It is, actually. It's the largest known quake IN the zone, of course, but people have only lived in the area for 400 years, which is basically no time at all, geologically.

55 posted on 08/23/2011 11:13:45 AM PDT by Strategerist (There is only so much stupidity one man can prevent - Andrew Marshall)
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To: Lazlo in PA

So, the earth didn’t move for you... sorry.


56 posted on 08/23/2011 11:14:06 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Yeah Northridge was 1995, but we had one a few years back, remember the one alongside the US/Mexico border, I think it was a 7, but since I am in LA it wasn’t so bad..I hope this quake didn’t interrupt Obama’s golf game LOL


57 posted on 08/23/2011 11:14:15 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: rabscuttle385

There is a known fault line in the area of Mineral VA,
which also includes North Anna....


58 posted on 08/23/2011 11:14:16 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: Red_Devil 232

I have been trying to reach my son, he had to deliver a load to Chicopee, MA this morning


59 posted on 08/23/2011 11:14:24 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: dfwgator

And that’s only the first one....stand by folks...


60 posted on 08/23/2011 11:14:26 AM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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