5.9 VA Earthquake

[Powder]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nati...-virginia.html

A magnitude-5.9 earthquake struck Virginia at about 1:50 p.m. (EDT), the U.S. Geological Survey reported Tuesday. Tremors were felt in New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Tennessee and the Carolinas.

In New York City, some buildings were evacuated, and residents poured out of apartment buildings. "What happened?!" one young woman, clutching her large black cat, asked as she rushed onto the street. The woman had been in her seventh-floor apartment in Brooklyn when the brick building began shaking and swaying.

The Associated Press said the Pentagon was being evacuated. The quake also interrupted a news conference that was about to be held by the New York district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., about the dropping of charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Vance was about to begin speaking to a room full of reporters, on the eighth floor of a building, when the shaking began.

Everyone leaped up and headed for the stairs. "No one really yelled. We were just trying to decipher what then and there what was going on," said a local TV reporter, Luz Plasencia, speaking to NY1, the city's all-news channel. "We just said this is obviously not right. Let's just get out of here."

She said the obvious fear was that the city was being attacked. "All I could think of was I need to get out of here, I need to get outside, praying and hoping nothing would happen when we were in there."

The impact was felt immediately on -- where else? -- Twitter.

5.8 magnitude!!! Really? An earthquake? I'm very skeptical. Maybe it was something else.... Hmm....@JamesWagnerWP

earthquake in NYC! @laughingsquid

An earthquake feels surprisingly like a panic attack. I thought my heart was just beating like crazy. @woodlandalyssa

And because you knew someone had to say it, there's this:

Now you know what it feels like on the West Coast, East Coast! @hafelin

Did ya feel it? I'm in Lexington, SC, & we were a little wobbly. All my friends back home in Long Island, NY got real shook up.

[愛]

Southern NJ here, and we felt it. A few books fell off my shelf, but it was all good. Pretty interesting experience, considering my first earthquake. I was a bit scared, not gonna lie.

[Venom]

Aw man, first Colorado gets one now the east coast does too? The last earthquake we had in Alabama, I slept through it and missed it.

[Luzmagica]

OMG!
...Earth is nervous everywhere...

There were 56 small earthquaks (Ritcher between 1,5 and 2,1 ) in the 3 last days in Canary Islands...small earthquakes but Canary Islands have some many volcanos ... !
Atlantic tectonic plate is shaking....!

Sorry only Spanish languague...:
http://www.eldia.es/2011-08-23/islas...-tres-dias.htm

Worldwide map!!! Last earthquake VA :
http://www.ign.es/ign/layoutIn/sismo...emotosMundo.do


And this is the National Institute Earthquake register:
Last 10 days this part of the plate!!!! The map can be understand any languague: Points of earthquake activity!

http://www.ign.es/ign/layout/sismo.do

[Shreddhead]

Ya we felt it here in Pittsburgh and central PA. i had a few things topple over but surprisingly none of my figures. Although Casey Jones looked like he was trying his hardest to fall.

[plastroncafe]

We got it in Boston, that's for sure.
Nothing major, but enough to notice it.

[Raph's Girl]

The 5.3 quake in Colorado was felt in New Mexico and all the way to Montana.

The 5.9 Virginia quake was felt in Georgia, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, PA, NJ, DC, Connecticut, NY, Toronto, Mass, S.C. N.C., Tenn, and Delaware

So far the only area reporting damage is Washington DC.

Next up for the east coast? Hurricane Irene which is expected to hit as a Cat 4!

[IamtheNorm]

I felt it in in Columbus Ohio

[ToTheNines]

I felt it in West Virginia for sure. I noticed the ground shaking and the garage door rattling while washing a car at work. My first thought was Earth quake but I wrote that idea off as part of my wild imagination, but I was right lol.

[discordiatookie]

Having never experienced one, i've got nothing to comment on, but I do have an aunt in San Francisco who has experience on them. Pretty crazy stuff, especially in areas not used to it.

Anyhoo, I spotted this doing the rounds on facebook, and seeing as I haven't heard of any lives lost, I thought i'd stick it up here. No idea if its real or no, but it made me laugh.

[Machias Banshee]

Nothing here on the NH Seacoast... At least it's just little quakes and nothing serious.

[Spitfire]

I live in Cali so my first response was "And?". Then I found out the magnitude and I said "So?". It's funny how people from the East Coast react to quakes cause they don't get them ever. Probably how we'd react if we got a tornado.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by discordiatookie

Having never experienced one, i've got nothing to comment on, but I do have an aunt in San Francisco who has experience on them. Pretty crazy stuff, especially in areas not used to it.

Anyhoo, I spotted this doing the rounds on facebook, and seeing as I haven't heard of any lives lost, I thought i'd stick it up here. No idea if its real or no, but it made me laugh.

Lol, there's no way that would have even fell. It knocked over my diploma I have propped up on my DVD player and a few SNES games that were standing up. That's about it.

[Luzmagica]

Originally Posted by discordiatookie

.....No idea if its real or no, but it made me laugh.

Makes me laugh also...

Originally Posted by Spitfire

I live in Cali so my first response was "And?". Then I found out the magnitude and I said "So?". It's funny how people from the East Coast react to quakes cause they don't get them ever. Probably how we'd react if we got a tornado.

Yes...you are right...For me it is amazing how people of the West Coast this has no importance...because they are use to biggers ones...so often..., and I suppose that a Japanese would smile and fall to the ground laughing ... for me anything related to an earthquake is quite scary...

[Leo656]

I and my personal gravity sphere are immune to earthquakes. We live in central NJ and though people at the gym swear they felt it, I didn't notice a thing. I swear this is like the 5th time in my life we've had a minor quake that I either slept through or ignored. Must be my super-power.

[KROW]

I felt some vibes up where I live, but it mostly felt like a large truck was going by or if a major pipeline had some sort of blockage. At first I thought my dog was just shifting her weight next to me, since she does it constantly and makes the recliner I sit in wobble, but then the TV started shivering and I paused. After about two or three minutes, it stopped and I found out it was a reverberation and said, "Oh, okay." It's happened before when I was in grade school so I wasn't too worried.

Usually, the only thing that shakes this much is my washing machine.

[BubblyShell22]

I never felt it in my neck of the woods, but I guess people in South Bend did feel it and one of Michigan's nuclear plants went on alert.

[shuriken]

The only Earthquake I ever felt was probably like a 1 on the richter scale and I almost missed it. But then again I live in Chicago and there are things far worse than that here. Hail storms, thunder storms, the occasional flood, heat waves and ridiculously cold winters come to mind.