Earthquake strikes Virginia

[Leonidae@MFT]

Some images in this thread are pure gold..

 

[PHCharls]

Uhurm... Owen Wilson voice:

Building codes?

You have building codes?!?

Wow... man... just... wow...

Seriously, though... 5.9 is big, but it's not going to cause that much damage to a modern building. Older buildings might become structurally unsound, but they shouldn't (and apparently didn't) fall down from that.

I've been through a few big ones, though during the really big one that brought the Hyatt down a few hundred k's north of here, I was on the road. And that only brought that hotel down because it was a substandard structure.

And this is in a country where buildings sometimes just... fall over... due to their general crappiness:



*shudder* and to think I used to live in that neighborhood when we moved from New Yawk...

Is that somewhere in Bindondo or Tondo,Manila?


Anyway that earthquake,hope that people are safe there including here who lived in those places.

 

[Pupik]

I understand this was originally a 5.9 but Standard & Poor's downgraded it this morning to a 4.3.

Moody's also removed the A-rating from Virginia, citing instability, so now its abbreviation is merely a "V".

 

[Max Powers]

I didn't even feel it.

If there was no damage and nobody got hurt, did it really happen?

 

[dxm8975]

I'm sure that a 5.8 earthquake may seem tiny or of little consequence to those that live in California, Japan, etc , but you need to keep in mind that earthquakes are expected around the pacific rim. Your building codes are written with earthquakes in mind. The eastern United States, with the exception of the New Madrid zone, very rarely has earthquakes of any significance. Because buildings are not constructed to the same earthquake standards that are on the west coast, a lower magnitude earthquake can cause much more damage.

Yes. As there are many seismic plates around the pacific ocean sitting in the layer of the earth, especially Japan lies on the spot where is geologically quite active and vulnerable for strong earthquakes. People around the pacific ocean are just more experienced through severe earthquakes for a longer period of history compared to those living in other regions of the world, where are less likely to have such geological activity/phenomena.

 

[Sage]

http://coudal.com/archives/2011/08/dc_earthquake_d.php

 

[Dapper]

My wife said, "Why is the bed swaying back and forth? It feels like it is going like this (does some weird hand motions)."

I was sitting on the bed with her and responded with, "You probably have a problem with your equilibrium."

Then a few minutes later it was on the news.

 

[Max Powers]

It's ok guys, no earthquake...it was actually Earthquake jumping off the turnbuckle!

 

[El Kabong]

So that was an earthquake? I thought it was the prunes I had just eaten.

 

[DK]

Quick! Pass the eye bleach!

 

[a6m5]

I guess there was no one hurt or anything? Very glad. But I did hear that there exist a sizable fault line, maybe near NY? I hope this isn't the beginning of trend for them......

They usually drive Audis.

I think they come with all-wheel brakes. I know that 4x4's here do, they drive very confidently on ice & snow. I also see a lot of them wreck on 4-inches of snow.

 

[Dapper]

But I did hear that there exist a sizable fault line, maybe near NY? I hope this isn't the beginning of trend for them......

Yes, and a nuclear power plant is essentially sitting on it! And that is 24 miles from NYC.
http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2009/09/18/fault-lines-intersect-nuke-plant-near-nyc/

 

[a6m5]

Yes, and a nuclear power plant is essentially sitting on it! And that is 24 miles from NYC.
http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2009/09/18/fault-lines-intersect-nuke-plant-near-nyc/

I'd hate to be the people who are responsible for the plant, city & the state.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Guess I'll post this in here since nobody has, the Virginia area had a 4.5 after shock yesterday morning. They figure there's more to come, although less severe each time.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0005jg1.html

 

[Prosthetic]

Guess I'll post this in here since nobody has, the Virginia area had a 4.5 after shock yesterday morning. They figure there's more to come, although less severe each time.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0005jg1.html

Our washer creates about magnitude during the spine cycle.

 

[Villain]

We just had a 4.6 earthquake in the LA area. Business as usual. 👍

No histeria so far...

 

[Keef]

Guess I'll post this in here since nobody has, the Virginia area had a 4.5 after shock yesterday morning. They figure there's more to come, although less severe each time.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0005jg1.html

The painter at work today said he saw the frames he had hung swing slowly like an earthquake. I remain skeptical.

 

[Joel]

I was in New York at the time of the earthquake, and I actually had no idea it happened. I didn't feel it at all, the only reason I knew it happened, was because a dude on roller blades who was stoned out of his mind saw my dad trying to find directions on his iPhone, and came to try and help.

"Whoaaaa dude! We had an earthquake man! Where you dudes from?"

 

[Danoff]

We just had a 4.6 earthquake in the LA area. Business as usual. 👍

No histeria so far...

I just got a call from relatives across the country wondering how the earthquake was... it was so small my wife actually missed it. I can't believe this stuff actually makes national news.

 

[Villain]

I just got a call from relatives across the country wondering how the earthquake was... it was so small my wife actually missed it. I can't believe this stuff actually makes national news.

Yeah the media loves to overreact to earthquakes. I remember the last one in Chino Hill ('08, I beleive) and they had a national press conference about it and what it meant about "THE BIG ONE." Sensationalism