Earthquake anyone?

[Drawingablank]

Wow, Washington DC just had a quake and we could feel it all the way up here in NY. kinda rare for us East coasters.

Well what we just felt was an aftershock apparently.

Edit: The radio just said 5.8 but online news sources are reporting a pretty widely varied richter for it.

[Captain]

I'm on the 33rd floor in downtown Manhattan and the building shook! My first earthquake, kind excited about it actaully.

NY is like the new California, gay marriage is legal, celebrities get away with crimes (DSK), and we have earthquakes. All we gotta do now is move the playa to NJ!

[MyDearFriend]

Yeah, well, I have a bunch of crap to pick up around here... walls, shelves, cupboards got dumped

[Rabbette]

Jeez... We just had an earthquake here in Richmond VA. I ran out of the house once I realized what it was - so that ol building wouldn't fall on me! Yikes. All seems ok now. Hope all is well with everyone else who got shook up!

[Rabbette]

Says 5.9 for us in Richmond VA - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 05ild.html

Hope everyone is ok!

[Drawingablank]

Yeah, well, I have a bunch of crap to pick up around here... walls, shelves, cupboards got dumped

Wow, was that from an aftershock or the original quake?

Did anyone get hurt or is it mostly just things getting shaken up?

Maintain priorities - Be careful opening your beers for a few hours.

[Captain]

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=46123

[Drawingablank]

That is only the second time in my life I remember feeling a quake so I've never really paid much attention to them.

Looking at the US quake map for the first time is quite a shocker though - 732 in the past week including another big one on the CO / NM border recently, and a few small ones that seem very close to the playa as well.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/

[Rabbette]

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=46123

ha ha ur funny Captain. I think we were both posting about the earthquake at the same time, I would have replied there first if I saw it silly

[Lassen Forge]

It's just us Californians expanding our franchise.

[Captain]

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=46123

ha ha ur funny Captain. I think we were both posting about the earthquake at the same time, I would have replied there first if I saw it silly

Don't be sorry, you're way too cute to do that, I was just trying to help you out.

[Simon of the Playa]

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/art ... y=nav|head

rocking in da ROC.

[MyDearFriend]

Nobody hurt AFAIK but, TYVM DAB now I want a beer!

[yurtgirl]

Ohio was rocking, too! Hope nobody was hurt by this.

I was talking with another nurse in our hospital on the 4th floor and honestly just thought i was having a "moment" with the movement. Head rush or whatever then one of the social workers came out of their office and asked if we felt the same thing. Tvs on the walls were swaying, the leaves on the ficus tree were quivering. Weird!
i was in an earthquake in the 80s up in Alaska but none since. I felt all woozy and weird but just brushed it off to not enough caffeine. Whodathunkit here in Ohio?

[Drawingablank]

Nobody hurt AFAIK but, TYVM DAB now I want a beer!

lol, you deserve one after a shaking like that.

[Lassen Forge]

They had a 2.2 just west of Albany, NY... then a 5.9 just west of Richmond, VA...

[MyDearFriend]

((((Rabbette)))) any damage there? I just have a bunch of stuff to pick up here.

[Dr. Pyro]

I was on the phone with a lady in Connecticut and she starts screaming "We're having an earthquake! I've got to get out of here!" and hangs up. CT is a long ways from DC isn't it?

[Lassen Forge]

When you NEVER have earthquakes, a little seems like a lot...

Giggling about all my friends out there who "would never move to California because of the earthquakes"...

Ready for the bizaarre first thought? When we got the USGS Flash (we're on their network) I was thinking... hmmm... Hell of a bomb went off somewhere. I mean... NOTHING hapens out there.

(Now, see, those driving out from the East Coast - this was your alarm going off that you should be leaving!)

[Drawingablank]

(Now, see, those driving out from the East Coast - this was your alarm going off that you should be leaving!)

11 hours and 45 mintes till blast off here.

[ygmir]

H.A.A.R.P.

[Lassen Forge]

See ya in the dust!

[skibear]

Holy Moly, Batman
I'm in the driveway at 2 pm working on my BRC shade tarp & concrete driveway is shaking.
A 5.9 EAST COAST earthquake & I;m not even at Burning Man !! Worst ever in DC, MD,VA area.

Park service closed all monuments, Capital, Pentagon & all DC schools dismissed.
Damage to Wash Natl Cathedral & chimneys fell over on the Equadorian Embassy.
Metro (same as SF BART) reduced to 15mph.

I'm in Silver Spring MD. Center is 50 mi south in VA near N Anna Nuclear Plant.

[yurtgirl]

...
(Now, see, those driving out from the East Coast - this was your alarm going off that you should be leaving!)

i wish! got one more work day then 2 more pack days then out the door at 9 am on Saturday. i was shaking here at the hospital where i work. lots of confused looks on people for about 15 seconds. kinda funny.

[Lassen Forge]

Congrats on getting the car thing sorted... see ya in the dust!!!

[AntiM]

Mod note: I merged the two threads. The conversations are now shook up and disjointed.

Buwahahaa... CHAOS!

I used to live in Japan, yeah been in enough, more earthquakes than I can count. Looked around my house here in Utah and decided I was screwed when we get ours. I live less than a mile from a big sleepy fault.

[Ugly Dougly]

There are a lot more buildings on the East Coast that are brick construction, more than on the west coast anyway. Hope there's not too much damage there.

[maryanimal]

6.0 is a good shaker! I lived in CA all my life before moving up here to WA state. About 7 years ago there was a 3.2 here and there was mass hysteria (well, I exaggerated some). But there was damage, like chimneys collapsing. I was at work and felt nauseous and dizzy, when I realized we just had a small earth quake.

The first one I really remember was in 1972 I think. I live in a small town in SoCal called La Verne. I shook about 6 or 7 am I think. My poor mom was running around checking on everyone and catching things that could fall off the walls. I was just laying in my bed scared. It was a 6.0 or something like that and we STILL had to go to school.

I think the worst quake "season" was between 1987-1995. We has so many earth quakes. I lived in Costa Mesa at that time and we had a few centered not to far from where I lived. The San Andreas Fault runs through that area and far up as San Fran I believe. I think the Northridge quake in the early 1990's was pretty bad.

Even though there were lots of quakes, I've never gotten used to them. They're unpredictable. I feel for you people who've never been through one. It's a weird feeling.

[MyDearFriend]

I live in an old (1901) brick co-op, we got a good shaking here, my walls look fine but one of the downstairs neighbors is reporting new cracks.

Get. Me. Out. Of. Here.

Now.

[theCryptofishist]

The first one I really remember was in 1972 I think. I live in a small town in SoCal called La Verne. I shook about 6 or 7 am I think. My poor mom was running around checking on everyone and catching things that could fall off the walls. I was just laying in my bed scared. It was a 6.0 or something like that and we STILL had to go to school.

I'm Northern California, so I don't remember the event itself. I do remember Newsroom doing a little visual presentation of the fault with wooden blocks, possible with a spring involved. So remember kids, even before computer animation we had cool learning and communication tools. I think that was called San Clemente, so I've long associated it with Nixon...