This CA girl is wondering how a 5.9 garnered over 1,000 posts? Over here it's just called "Rock N Roll"!
It shut down your federal government. I spent years in Bayarea, Loma Prieta survivor. The incompetence in DC is pretty disgusting, actually. People fleeing perfectly sound buildings to run out onto the streets, where all kinds of potential hazards could do them in. Talk about earth quake no no's. Had the Washington Monumnet toppled, it would have been the single greatest blow for freedom in our history with all the bureaucrats out on the mall.
This one was worth about 10 minutes conversation around the water cooler.
Because earthquakes of any magnitude are so rare there.
My childhood BFF who has lived in the DC area all her life, but has traveled quite a bit reported that this was her very first earthquake experience and it pretty much freaked her out. My sister in Alexandria didn't like it one bit either. LOL
If one like that hit here in Houston, I imagine the reaction would be similar.
Well, except that we're Texans, so we wouldn't be so much freaked, just amazed. ;-)
I think these eastern earthquakes are felt over a much larger region, so there are a lot more of us who have something to say. I didn't feel it where I am, but my husband, who works at UofM Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI said that some clinics there were evacuated for a brief time because, apparently, some people in those clinics felt it and were concerned. We're about 450 miles away, as the crow flies, from the epicenter of the quake. Just out of curiosity, how far away might a quake of that magnitude be felt in your neck of the woods?
Over there you don't have Muslims driving aircraft into your buildings. When something moves and shakes here, many of us think they're at it again.
Like many other people who lived near DC on 9-11, I thought the ground was shaking because a nuke had gone off or some other catastrophe had taken place. An earthquake is also more of a concern here because we have many precious but fragile historic buildings that weren't built to California code, but are essential to our country's history. Some of us even live in extremely old houses. It feels different here too because the formation of rock is much older, and the tremors traveled a thousand miles today. So a 5.9 is a much bigger deal to us than to you.
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