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EARTHQUAKE JUST HIT DC AREA, MY HOUSE SHOOK LIKE xxx [Mag 5.9 in VA]
self ^ | 8/23/2011 | STOCKPIRATE

Posted on 08/23/2011 10:55:19 AM PDT by stockpirate

DAMN


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: North Carolina; US: Ohio; US: Pennsylvania; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; dcearthquake; earthquake; northannapowerplant; northannareactor; obamasfault; quake; virginiaearthquake
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To: dirtboy

crap, that’s funny


1,121 posted on 08/23/2011 4:37:27 PM PDT by advertising guy (if a politician from either party was to say hello to me, it should be law I can shoot em)
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To: dirtboy
"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."

You're right - Isobel was a mess up here. We could do without the tree surgery bills this time. The quake gave people something to talk about on an otherwise quiet summer day. I'm glad it wasn't more serious.

1,122 posted on 08/23/2011 4:40:09 PM PDT by Think free or die
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To: nutmeg

I sure felt it where I am!

And my brother in law in Windsor told me he felt it too!


1,123 posted on 08/23/2011 4:40:18 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Ron Paul is to the Constitution what Fred Phelps is to the Bible.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I felt the quake here in Ohio, and I called Hubby and told him we had a 3.0. Later he found a site online that listed the magnitude of the quake in the vicinity, and for where we are, it said it was a 3.0, LOL!

Former California resident calls the magnitude! I was a fifty-three-year resident and lived through many earthquakes. I know a 3.0 when I feel one.


1,124 posted on 08/23/2011 4:40:18 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: Ratman83

Used to live west of Fairfax, about 15 miles from DC. Got Obama’d and had to move to where I could find work.


1,125 posted on 08/23/2011 4:49:30 PM PDT by jboot
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To: CAluvdubya

well since a lot of us have lived a lot of years in the northeast without ever feeling a 5.9 or any earthquake at all, it was of more interest to us


1,126 posted on 08/23/2011 4:49:53 PM PDT by Enchante (9 year cancer survivor this month - last surgery Aug. 2002)
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To: stayathomemom
Just out of curiosity, how far away might a quake of that magnitude be felt in your neck of the woods?

That's pretty hard to answer as it depends how far down into the earth the epicenter is.

1,127 posted on 08/23/2011 4:52:01 PM PDT by CAluvdubya
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To: Squantos

Will do. Thanks for the information.

I’ve been playing 12-string for years and just a few months ago discovered why I’m always breaking strings. A 12-string is not supposed to be tuned like a regular guitar but a half step down due to the extra pressure on the neck.

Of course when playing with a praise and worship team or a band, you have to be tuned to the keyboards and the other instruments, so the string breaking will continue(unless one wants to use a capo, which I don’t).


1,128 posted on 08/23/2011 4:53:44 PM PDT by Bed_Zeppelin
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To: ErnBatavia

No, you could feel it on the ground. I was in my house and went outside to see if there were any clouds of jet-fuel smoke rising into the air, as there were on 9-11. The ground was vibrating strongly. (The shaking went on long enough that I had plenty of time to put down the laptop and go downstairs and out, quite a long way.)


1,129 posted on 08/23/2011 4:54:23 PM PDT by ottbmare (off-the-track Thoroughbred mare)
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To: Myrddin

Sorry, I guess I’m stupid. I was replying to a post that mentioned solar wind, and saw the image I posted, which shows not just the diurnal variation you mention, but marked fluctuations/variations or “jiggles” as stupid people like me describe them, on those diurnal variations.

And because I am so stupid, I noted the time/date as well. Then somebody smarter than me explained to me what UTC means.

And again, being that I am so stupid, I always thought that solar winds contained a crapload of charged particles, which some people call a geomagnetic storm. And I also apparently mistakenly believed that geomagnetic storms could affect the earth’s magnetic field, causing something like those “jiggles” I saw on the image I posted.

And I again, mistakenly, believed that those magnetic vibrations induced currents not only in the upper atmosphere but in the ground below us.

Accept my apologies for being so stupid.


1,130 posted on 08/23/2011 4:57:14 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican (FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
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To: stockpirate

It hit Pittsburgh. Some older buildings lost some bricks. Haven’t heard of any major damage.


1,131 posted on 08/23/2011 4:58:08 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
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To: All

http://www.newstribune.info/news/police_and_fire/x415941436/Police-log-report


1,132 posted on 08/23/2011 5:00:15 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: 3catsanadog
Found this tidbit about evacuating DC to where that earthquake occurred...per Homeland Security.

It's an old mining town...several mines...

Every time I thing mines, I think caves and TERRORISTS. Plan gone awry??

1,133 posted on 08/23/2011 5:03:18 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: RoseofTexas

“GOD HAVE MERCY on our damaged nation...”

I think He’s the one doing the damage. Remember Egypt? Sodom and Gammorah? GO is probably the one doing this stuff Himself, He has a history of doing it, certainly.


1,134 posted on 08/23/2011 5:03:25 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: brytlea

In the East Coast, there aren’t supposed to be earthquakes. From what I know, the plates on this side of the planet are not supposed to shift at all.


1,135 posted on 08/23/2011 5:04:36 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: wastedyears

I think this comes from God, not science. This is too unnatural to be science.


1,136 posted on 08/23/2011 5:05:37 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I make calls all day, I spoke to several peole in California right after it happened, told them it was a 5.9, they all said WOW, that’s a good one!


1,137 posted on 08/23/2011 5:07:31 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Ron Paul is to the Constitution what Fred Phelps is to the Bible.)
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To: stockpirate

The earth moved in VA and I’ll just bet everyone in DC wants a nice, stiff stimulus to calm their nerves.


1,138 posted on 08/23/2011 5:07:55 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

Family reporting another severe aftershock around 8:00 p.m.


1,139 posted on 08/23/2011 5:09:13 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair: Man's surrender. Laughter: God's redemption.)
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To: sodpoodle

Yeah, we are just south of the original epicenter and we just had a small after shock. Lasted about 15 seconds and sounded like distant thunder as it came on.


1,140 posted on 08/23/2011 5:12:11 PM PDT by 11Bush
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