Pretty darned close. If I were Berkland I'd say opposite corners of a butterfly strain field...
Posted on 08/23/2011 10:55:19 AM PDT by stockpirate
DAMN
There’s a message to the DC and White House in all this. I wonder if anyone realizes it.
Well I’m thinking that both falling off would not be such a bad idea.....actually I have family south of Richmond so just let the gummint mamary kings and queens within the DC area fall off....
Pretty darned close. If I were Berkland I'd say opposite corners of a butterfly strain field...
Just saw the photo on Drudge of all those people in the street (D.C. or New York?). Had that earthquake happened in the area wherein those people were standing there, likely, would have been many deaths from falling concrete and huge shards of glass. Bad earthquake etiquette.
Thanks. But wasn't this thing a bit overblown? Did anyone even require a Band-Aid as a result of it?
ML/NJ
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.
Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
I will look at your homepage pictures and posts with great admiration. Thank you for your service in Iraq.
I find it a real hoot the fault lines they discover every time there’s a quake.
The pretense we really know what is going on is kind of silly.
You and I probably live on or near five to ten faults of varying lengths.
Ok, thanks.
Well, it was fun. But I realize that your building don't have the reinforcement that ours have. Brick buildings, without being reinforced, are deadly.
Anyone heard from Geraldo lately?
Thanks. It was my pleasure. :)
The best thing for DC would be a five mile deep sink hole. No clean-up to do....
I hear ya, this entire coastline and continent is heavily tectonic history laden, scientists have only scratched the surface..
We’re supposedly at a point where the hayward goes deep
North of us,, that would likely cause the most damage here locally imo, but you never know where a segment is gonna let go elsewhere closeby, the quake of ‘06 shook the ol’ town up pretty good,, and they’re finding faults all over these days.. they have better instruments to find them.. some things we may not want to know. :-} but what do I know, I would like to retire on the Big Island down the coast from volcanos.
Perfect!
When I didn't see a mushroom cloud anywhere, my next thought was a bomb at Metro Center.
I would expect a truly remarkable earthquake, in an area not known for them, to be the work of God. I didn’t even know this seismic zone existed, but FR being FR, someone either did know or did a bit of research and found out, and posted links to the info. And it’s a tie for the strongest earthquake in the history of VA, so it is not in and of itself unusual for intensity - and others in recorded history on the East Coast have been stronger, such as the Charleston quake last century. Sometimes, an earthquake is just an earthquake, and a hurricane is just a hurricane (hopefully Irene’s track will keep trending eastward and miss DC and me up in Philly, unlike Isabel in 2003, which raised a lot of heck on the East Cost). It becomes an exercise in silliness to look for signs in what a few minutes of research shows is not extraordinary.
Obama’s fault.
We told them to leave Israel alone!
(from a thread sometime back in June)
Wimp. Our office milked it for at least 20 minutes.
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