Earthquake strikes Virginia

[Villain]

How cute! The east coast gets a baby earthquake!

Anything in the 5s is just fun and forgettable. Kids get spooked, things fall off of shelves, and no one get seriously hurt unless they're up walking a tight rope or standing underneath a poorly-balanced appliance.

Buzz Killington says: The Washington Monument Is Almost Certainly Not Leaning

 

[Sam48]

I guess we'll know soon enough then. Maybe that picture is fake.

 

[Villain]

I guess we'll know soon enough then. Maybe that picture is fake.

It's fake. That would be huge news. 5.9 is not strong enough to do that.

 

[CodeRedR51]

I guess we'll know soon enough then. Maybe that picture is fake.

After looking at it a bit, certainly looks odd.

Edit: You can see very faintly a line in the clouds to the left where the monument was before the picture was edited. Fake.

 

[richiem2282]

that was crazy, I know it was 200 miles away but NYC isn't ready for something like this. I work in construction and believe me when I tell you, the old buildings in NYC if ever hit with something stronger than today would crumble, scary... Anyone else from NYC or surrounding areas that felt it today?

 

[richiem2282]

Anyone from NYC feel the shake?

 

[David]

It's been an interesting afternoon. I work in northern Virginia so I was pretty close to the center of this thing. A 5.9 might not be much but when you live on the east coast and you've never felt an earthquake before it's quite an experience. I'm on the third floor of my building and to feel the floor movinig and see a building shake like that is incredible.

We got evacuated for about 30 minutes and then came right back in.

 

[Villain]

A 5.9 might not be much but when you live on the east coast and you've never felt an earthquake before it's quite an experience.

I can feel you on that. There seemed to be a higher frequency of local quakes when I was a small child (including Northridge in 1994 - I was 7 years old) so an earthquake in the 5s never really phased me. It always seemed like you stop what your doing and then go check and see if anything expensive fell and got damaged.

However, in 2008 we had a 5.5 magnitude quake very close to where I live now. It seemed like the first one we'd had in quite some time - and while it didn't scare me personally - I happened to be at work at the time in a kid's fitness center. This is a fairly high-end private club with many members who've transplanted from out of the area. For many members (not to mention young kids) it was their first experience having the ground shaking. It took quite a bit of reassuring and coaching on my part to keep people calm.

 

[McLaren]

What the hell are Earthquakes?

[typicalTexasreaction]

 

[Villain]

What the hell are Earthquakes?

Things people overreact to.

 

[AudiPro]

Wow I live in Southern California a 5.8 is a DS2 rumble compared to the stuff we sit through. A 2.0 on the east coast and it's like someone launched a nuke on the US. Pansies.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Things people overreact to.

No offense but I think your opinion might be slightly different because you live in a state where they happen all the time. Like I said before, if you live in a state where they rarely (or never) happen then it would be a different situation. Yes afterwords it may seem like people are over reacting because it wasn't a large earthquake, but while it was happening they didn't know that. Although the chances were very slim, it could have been much worse.

Then you add in that several happened all around the country at pretty much the same time makes it kind of a big deal.

Wow I live in Southern California a 5.8 is a DS2 rumble compared to the stuff we sit through. A 2.0 on the east coast and it's like someone launched a nuke on the US. Panzys.

 

[AudiPro]

Crap typo

 

[Villain]

No offense but I think your opinion might be slightly different because you live in a state where they happen all the time. Like I said before, if you live in a state where they rarely (or never) happen then it would be a different situation. Yes afterwords it may seem like people are over reacting because it wasn't a large earthquake, but while it was happening they didn't know that. Although the chances were very slim, it could have been much worse.

Then you add in that several happened all around the country at pretty much the same time makes it kind of a big deal.

Read up if you want to see my comment on how I feel about people being nervous experiencing an earthquake for the first time. (bolded and linked for R1600Turbo)

5.9 is not a big deal - especially (as I read) for only 15-30 seconds. Roll your eyes about my attitude towards people overreacting and then go read about how many people thought that the Washington Monument was now leaning.

Please.....

 

[DogFightKingz]

Hahahahah I live in NYC and there was a earthquake today, 5.8 I didn't even feel it

 

[CodeRedR51]

Read up if you want to see my comment on how I feel about people being nervous experiencing an earthquake for the first time.

5.9 is not a big deal - especially (as I read) for only 15-30 seconds. Roll your eyes about my attitude towards people overreacting and then go read about how many people thought that the Washington Monument was now leaning.

Please.....

Yes, 5.9 is not a big deal after the fact. But for people that have never experienced an earthquake, during the quake itself, could be terrifying. Hence the reactions you see on the net. Simple really.

And the rolleyes smiley wasn't for you.

 

[cemus]

seriously, m5.9 is a joke.. you can enjoy that.. you should see what 7.4 could do, even if you're 50 miles away from it..

yes, I did.. and I'm sure some of us, especially japanese and asian chaps, experienced far more stronger than that..

 

[Public'sTwin]

The next big thing will be, in a manifestation of total insecurity, to show how not lonely you are, and simply claim total ignorance of the earthquake altogether.

 

[Moglet]

I imagine if you've not experienced an earthquake before, 5.9 is pretty damn terrifying. Ask anyone from the UK who has ever been in one, no matter how small. Hell, the tiny ones we get over here scare the daylights out of everyone as we're simply not used to it.

Just because you're used to it, it doesn't mean that other people won't be scared. What's with the severely blinkered views in this thread all of a sudden?

 

[Terronium-12]

I think it's called "being stupid".

 

[CodeRedR51]

I imagine if you've not experienced an earthquake before, 5.9 is pretty damn terrifying. Ask anyone from the UK who has ever been in one, no matter how small. Hell, the tiny ones we get over here scare the daylights out of everyone as we're simply not used to it.

My opinion confirmed.

 

[Public'sTwin]

I imagine if you've not experienced an earthquake before, 5.9 is pretty damn terrifying. Ask anyone from the UK who has ever been in one, no matter how small. Hell, the tiny ones we get over here scare the daylights out of everyone as we're simply not used to it.

Just because you're used to it, it doesn't mean that other people won't be scared. What's with the severely blinkered views in this thread all of a sudden?

What are you talking about? What earthquake?

 

[Villain]

There's a difference between being scared/nervous/unprepared and overreacting.

 

[David]

I was more just shocked that it was happening than scared or anything like that. My first thought was literally that our building had gotten bombed because the idea of an earthquake here is so ridiculous. Either way its a weird experience the first time it happens... and the scariest thing here is when you start wondering whether these buildings are designed to handle an earthquake the way that they do out west.

I just sat at my desk and took it all in. Some of the people on the floor got pretty panicked, others just kinda hung out. Would have just stayed at my desk but the security people came around pretty quickly to make us leave haha.

 

[Terronium-12]

There's a difference between being scared/nervous/unprepared and overreacting.

Is there?

You'd be surprised what people think of when the ground beneath them begins shaking out of nowhere, especially when that ground beneath them is known to absolutely NOT shake. Now in my case I can't say I was taken by surprise when the light tremor came our way, because quite frankly I fully thought I was bugging the 🤬 out having been sleepy and all. Once I found out I wasn't and everyone else (at least that has spoken up about it) felt whatever it was I did, I got shaken up as well.

 

[Northstar]

Hope everyone is ok.👍

 

[CodeRedR51]

Great, now we are going to have fifty million tourists doing stupid "holding the leaning monument up" pics.

 

[Prosthetic]

I remember the first time I felt one, I was 6 or so and was on the back deck with my friends. It was a 6 or so but further north a bit. Still felt it pretty hard, but we wanted more :S Of course I was the same kid that thought a flood was exciting, at least for as I lived on a hill.

I guess I'm used to them living on three fault lines. I don't even know if I would stop what I was doing for the most part on one that size. I can understand uneasiness if you never felt one, but a coast wide panic is comedic.

 

[Nicksfix]

Scary feeling when your standing in a customers repair shop and things on the shelves start to rattle and the light fixtures start swinging back and forth. I felt this one real good here in Ohio.

Wishing all is well elsewhere.

 

[arora]

What happened to the Colorado part of the thread?

I live about 250 miles from that quake, called a few friends that live close enough to feel it and/or know about damage etc.

It was not bad with some debris on the highway, fallen porches(If you've ever been in that area porches can fall from snow or just old age really), damaged chimneys etc. No news of injury or death that I know of.