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Earthquake!!; Everybody OK?
Topic Started: Aug 23 2011, 01:19 PM (2,321 Views)
Murf 59
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I lived in Las Vegas for most of my life. You could feel the shots when they blew one off. In the late 50s early 60s, you could sit on Fremont street and see the mushroom clouds rise over Fremont street. Saint George Utah, and Cedar City are directly down wind from the above ground nuke test
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N3rd61rl
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I work in Winchester VA, we thought one of the pieces of heavy machinery next door has hit something (digging). Whole warehouse shook for 30 seconds, maybe a bit longer. Then people started getting texts from people in Sterling, etc. It roared here, like a big diesel was driving through our warehouse - hence why we thought it was the construction across the street. Especially when they suddenly stopped everything they were doing (for about 20 minutes...lol).
My BF is working on the Shenandoah River bridge and he thought we were crazy, he didn't feel anything???

Chubart - you aren't too far! I live just south of you, between M'burg and Sheptwn in WV.
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Johnny Mullet
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Fear the Mullet

I live right on Lake Erie and most of us from Geneva, Ohio to Erie, PA felt nothing. My area is part of the "Great Canadian Ridge" and it has not moved in centuries so I suspect that is why we did not feel anything.

I hope everyone is safe.
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Bigshane90


I live at the base of the knobs region In Ky. I didn't feel a thing.
Earthquakes are very odd. We had one last year in the middle of the night.
I thought it was thunder for the first ten secs then After a minute of my light fixture moving I thought O man it's tornado, when I relized it wasn't raining I really started to freak out. I was in a 2am panic!
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JoeBob
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metromizer
Aug 23 2011, 05:54 PM
I don't want to sound ho-hum about it, but by California standards, that was a baby. If it were a fish, I'd throw it back! Let me know when you ride a 7.0 of better :-)

Seriously though, I hope no one was injured, those things can scare the heck out of you, even if they don't do much physical damage. I've had books fall on me, the plaster crack, but fortunately never been closer than 15 miles from an epicenter.
:+1

I've been right on top of a couple 5.0 quakes, they're fun!

Had a store that was really close to the epicenter of the '94 Northridge quake...got pretty trashed, but we still did some good business that day...

Edited by JoeBob, Aug 23 2011, 10:59 PM.
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econoboxer
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I am the one on the left.

friend of my daughters lives in VA, was on some scaffolding three stories up when the quake hit. I wonder if he had to go home and change his shorts after that? Didn't ask directly.
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geminiheartz
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econboxxxer
Aug 23 2011, 11:31 PM
friend of my daughters lives in VA, was on some scaffolding three stories up when the quake hit. I wonder if he had to go home and change his shorts after that? Didn't ask directly.
:lol sorry to laugh but in all seriousness hope he is ok...i hate quakes since im from calif. and ive been thru my share of them in my life time :'( ...there was 1 or 2 that i think if i didnt have control of my bladder, i would have been quite embarrassed, to say the least :x
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geminiheartz
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JoeBob
Aug 23 2011, 10:55 PM
metromizer
Aug 23 2011, 05:54 PM
I don't want to sound ho-hum about it, but by California standards, that was a baby. If it were a fish, I'd throw it back! Let me know when you ride a 7.0 of better :-)

Seriously though, I hope no one was injured, those things can scare the heck out of you, even if they don't do much physical damage. I've had books fall on me, the plaster crack, but fortunately never been closer than 15 miles from an epicenter.
:+1

I've been right on top of a couple 5.0 quakes, they're fun!

Had a store that was really close to the epicenter of the '94 Northridge quake...got pretty trashed, but we still did some good business that day...

:smackface dont mention the '94 quake...it woke me up in a bad way...i was living in palmdale, ca. at the time...i always close my door to my room and that day i almost couldnt get it opened to go to my mom's room to lean up against the doorframe w/ her...ugghh my body couldnt stop shaking to the rhythm of the quake for an hour at least... :(

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metroschultz
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Please just call me; "Schultz"

My house rolled back and forth for a bit. Like being on a cruise ship in some crossbow waves. Nothing spectacular, didn't even topple my chairs. (funny _ss picture BTW) Window curtains swayed. Necklace fell off the wall. Thought the cat was messing around again.

OMG an earthquake!
OMG an earthquake!
OMG an earthquake!
OMG an earthquake!
OMG an earthquake!
OMG an earthquake!
OMG an earthquake!
OMG an earthquake!
OMG an earthquake!
OMG an earthquake!
All any one could talk about here.
News spent hours getting reports and eye witness accounts. I saw the DC Cathedral towers 5 times in an hour news cast. Half a building fell on some ones car in northern VA. Saw that half a dozen times as well.

No mention of the bomb that was dropped off in the P.O. yesterday. !WE! had an earthquake.
Screw the Libyans, their (purported) victory be damned, !WE! had an earthquake.
Any one know who controls Libya's WMDs? (they have nukes and biological weapons, or so it has been reported) !WE! had an earthquake.
Tragic death on the highway? !WE! had an earthquake.
New species of newt, found in the Dominican Republic, the smallest reptile ever discovered? !WE! had an earthquake.
GOP redistricting to ensure more republicans in congress? !WE! had an earthquake.
Stocks post biggest gains in 2 weeks? !WE! had an earthquake.
Casey Anthony has to go back to jail? !WE! had an earthquake.
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nerys
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Grr

MSM is "for" profit. earthquake = higher ratings = more profit. Easy enough to understand.

Oh wait you thought it was about the "news" :-) hehe how quaint :-)
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It was interesting to say the least. This is the first one I have ridden out where I was above the ground floor. I was on the fourth floor of an office building in the Richmond, VA area which was swaying significantly. Felt much like the cruise ship MetroSchultz described.

I recognized what was going on and it didn't get any worse so I simply stayed put and watched my colleagues many of which didn't have a clue as to what was going on. Their reactions were pretty much as described above and today it is still the major topic of conversation, almost as if no place else on earth had ever ahd an earthquake before...
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metromizer


I travel 6-7 times/yr to the east for business. Being a California native, the really old brick buildings in Scanton, Rochester, Connecticut, and Boston always look so out of place (in a good way) to ME. They mostly stopped building with brick a long time ago out here, as brick and cinderblock falls apart in an earthquake. If you do have an older brick structure, they make you do an earthquake retrofit when the building changes hands or you pull a permit to make a change. (read: $K's)

Again, I am really glad no one was hurt.
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Norby
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Aug 23 2011, 06:04 PM
I live in Florida, and beyond that I have a large, empty creek behind my house, down in a bit of a bowl, and lots of trees nearby. So nothing bothers me here. No earthquakes obviously, but not even hurricanes do anything to my place.
Funny thing is Hurricane Irene is wandering away from Florida now. First, earthquake and then the hurricane steers away from us. Brings to mind the HAARP project that our government has in their possession. Do you guys know about that? I don't really mean to stir conspiracy theories...but...HAARP has the ability to alter weather patterns from what I hear. Think about it, how long has it been since we've seen a good hurricane around here? I think the HAARP people are messing with weather patterns to steer these hurricanes away from us. Side-effect? Earthquakes.
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Alpine
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here in south cali i ride earthquakes like waves!!!
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t3ragtop
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Turbo3 and Twincam Tweaker

hey norby, i know what haarp is.

noriega blamed the haitian earthquake on that. ;)
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