Took me a good 5 seconds to figure out what was going on, and I've been through them before.
It was an interesting afternoon. First time I recall an earthquake, however slight, in Philly.
I didn't feel it, lucky I live in Wisconsin
I am so upset with nature. The one time there's an earthquake in Maryland and I sleep through it. Somebody's gotta pay.
I didn't feel anything where I work here in New Jersey, but apparently it shook up the wife & kids at home and I also heard from a couple of people at our other offices who felt it as well. So now I'm feeling all left out 'n' stuff. :(
um, I didn't here it, but I was sleeping during that time since I was sick. I got sick from this:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416zC-ri8-L._SS280_.jpg)
My three kids were in the house and came out to tell me the whole thing shook for a bit. I did not notice anything myself, but looking back it is possible the horse we were working on misbehaved slightly for no apparent reason at the appropriate time.
(We are in Ontario, Canada, just off the northern shore of Lake Erie, roughly an hour from Buffalo NY)
Quote from: HappyGilmore on August 23, 2011, 02:00:25 PM
It was an interesting afternoon. First time I recall an earthquake, however slight, in Philly.
Same in DE, though we had one in GA about 8 years ago.
The strongest quake I've felt happened in Yucca Valley about 10 or 11 years ago. I tried looking through the history to find it, but failed (I'm uncertain of the exact date - and there are a lot of them there). My brain is telling me it was a 5.2 or 5.4, and the epicenter was less than 10 miles from where I was. The shaking was stronger but shorter than this one.
Apparently there is a previously undiscovered fault line running beneath the nation's capitol. After consulting with the Obama administration, the USGS is officially christening it the George Bush's Fault.
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Quote from: indianasmith on August 23, 2011, 07:10:51 PM
Apparently there is a previously undiscovered fault line running beneath the nation's capitol. After consulting with the Obama administration, the USGS is officially christening it the George Bush's Fault.
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If anybody can take an earthquake and turn it into a partisan political joke, that would be you, sir.
But . . . but . . . it was FUNNY, dangit!!!!
Quote from: Andrew on August 23, 2011, 07:07:51 PM
Quote from: HappyGilmore on August 23, 2011, 02:00:25 PM
It was an interesting afternoon. First time I recall an earthquake, however slight, in Philly.
Same in DE, though we had one in GA about 8 years ago.
The strongest quake I've felt happened in Yucca Valley about 10 or 11 years ago. I tried looking through the history to find it, but failed (I'm uncertain of the exact date - and there are a lot of them there). My brain is telling me it was a 5.2 or 5.4, and the epicenter was less than 10 miles from where I was. The shaking was stronger but shorter than this one.
I've never felt one before. Didn't even know one happened in VA. Just happened to notice my bed and computer stand shaking a bit and the floor going up and down. By the time I figured out what happened, I was more or less like, "HuH?" and put on the news. Granted, it wasn't as strong here as it's epicenter.
Hmm.
I actually experiences a couple of quakes when I was stationed in Japan back in my Navy days. It is a very disconcerting thing to feel the solid earth begin to tremble beneath your feet . . . makes you not quite trust the ground for a few days!!
I'm just glad that property damage was minimal, and at least as far as I have heard, no one was hurt. I would not have ventured to make a joke out of it otherwise.
I was watching Fox News last night just before bed: all of a sudden Megan Kelly got really serious and informed us about the quake. My first thought was "Please let it be just a quake, a small one and nothing more serious than that" remembering that we're uncomfortably close to the tenth year since the horrors of 9/11.
I experienced one when I lived in Vegas. It struck during the middle of the night when I was sleeping. I remember waking up and the room was swaying back and forth. I thought, "huh, earthquake," and immediately turned over and went back to sleep. I must've been really tired.
I grew up in California. I've been through a bunch. Not that it makes them less scary. I was near the epicenter for the 1987 Whittier Narrows quake, which was a big one. I was working graveyard shift at the time and I was on my way home at about 7:15-ish in the am. I had stopped at a red light and had bent down to try and retrieve a cassette tape that had fallen on the floor of my truck when the shaking started. At first I thought somebody had come up my truck ans started pushing up and down on the frame, so I fully expected to have to deal with a different kind of emergency. When I raised up I saw the street signs and posts swaying back and forth, and the storefront windows looked like shimmering water. I was only a little concerned until a few of the windows started shattering, then I got real concerned and started looking for fissures in the ground and visualizing that scene from the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve where Lois Lane's car gets sucked down into a crack in the earth.
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Quote from: Newt on August 23, 2011, 06:20:03 PM
My three kids were in the house and came out to tell me the whole thing shook for a bit. I did not notice anything myself, but looking back it is possible the horse we were working on misbehaved slightly for no apparent reason at the appropriate time.
(We are in Ontario, Canada, just off the northern shore of Lake Erie, roughly an hour from Buffalo NY)
Didn't notice anything here, about four hours further north. Not that I would have noticed. We had a little quake here a couple of years ago, and I didn't even think about it. We have freight trains going by every day that shake the ground almost as much, and there was a fair bit of rock blasting going on. It seemed perfectly normal.
Folks in the downtown area here reported buildings rockin' and rollin' but I felt nada.
We'll be spending the next couple of days hoping Irene doesn't take a hard left! :buggedout:
(http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/memes-tears-shed.jpg)
I laughed so hard.
I was in the car on Route 18 when the earthquake hit, so, I felt nothing. Tonight, however, I went into the back bedroom which I use like a library and I'm not in there much these days... and pictures from the wall were on the floor!! :buggedout: :bouncegiggle: