[the invisib1e hand]

the East Coast rocks.

I don't know what the West Coast does.

[thackney]

5.8 quake isn’t unusual for California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, where one occurs about once a year. Those states have had 103 quakes 5.8 or bigger since 1900

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I think they better check their math. Looks like over 800 just for Alaska.

http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/db2catalog.pl?lowerlat=50.0&upperlat=71.0&leftlon=172.0&rightlon=-130.0&minz=0.0&minz=350.0&mintime=01%2F01%2F1898&mintime=12%2F31%2F2010&minmag=5.8&maxnum=1000

[rogue yam]

In California we stir our coffee with 5.8 quakes.

On the East Coast it’s dress over the head time.

[skeeter]

One other contrast between east & west coasts - the amount of quake caused property damage and dead bodies.

[EyeGuy]

“East vs. West Earthquakes: Way Different Creatures”

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And earthquakes out here in flyover, driven largely by the huge New Madrid fault, matter not at all.

Just like the weather. This summer’s heat wave didn’t start making real news, until it reached the important folks up east.

[righttackle44]

Wait! Wait! Wait! Isn’t the New Yawkers who are always telling us how tough and brave they are? But isn’t it
the New Yawkers who stayed where they are and wasn’t it
others, including people from New York, who took up Conestoga Wagons, barrels of flour and flint lock muskets and went west? And then I listened to New Yawkers talking
on the news about how the earthquake scared them. It’s time we expose this brave New Yorkers baloney for exactly what it is. Baloney.

[kidd]

Here in the northeast, we likewise laugh at the panic that is caused by an inch of snow in Texas, Georgia, or Southern California.

So I guess we’re even. If haven’t had an experience with an unusual act of nature, no matter how mild it is, it’s a little disturbing.

[frithguild]

As a result of the most recent quakes, the siesmologists hae identified a new fault. It runs from Ithaca to Manhattan and up to Boston, running not far from Martha’s Vinyard. It als goes through Philadelphia and Baltimore into Washington DC, then through Virginia all the way to New Orleans. It is the Bush Fault.

[SonnyBubba]

I felt it in LA. (Lower Alabama)

[justiceseeker93]

The article makes no mention of quakes erupting in the Midwest. I suppose they behave more like the "East Coast" quakes described in the posted article than the "West Coast" variety.

In particular, I recall one centered in southern Illinois on November 9, 1968, a Saturday.

It was felt in at lest parts of 23 states and Canada. But it was revised down to 5.4 on the Richter scale. As in the Virginia quake yesterday, there were no reported deaths, but some property damage near the epicenter. The most serious injury reported was a concussion suffered by a child hit in the head by falling debris. It is the largest quake ever recorded centered in the state of Illinois.

[ops33]

I always thought it was odd that there was a very small fault line at Charleston, SC. There was a very devasting earthquake there in 1886, estimated at 7.6