Merged 5.9 Quake Hits Virginia

[Brown]

How about we stop and you send us more Shania Twains?

You can have Shania, but you also HAVE TO take Justin Bieber.

BTW, felt it in Waterloo, Ontario.

 

[Corsair 115]

How about we stop and you send us more Shania Twains?

Don't play hardball with us. Do you really want to find out how many Celine Dions we've been keeping in reserve?

 

[Horatius]

Hmmmm.....I thought I felt the building sway a bit, but no one else seemed to notice....I'm in Hull, Quebec.

 

[Aoidoi]

My store starting making funny noises and some thing made odd squeaking sounds. I thought I was going crazy until I checked the USGS site.

It's coincidence. We told you not to build on a Pet Semetary, but you with all your "scienciness" said it would be fine.

 

[Kaylee]

Yep, felt it here in NYC. Happen to be home today. At first I thought it was just construction! Even though it was quiet strong -- my table and doors were shaking.

In hindsight I realized that may have been the reason why one of my cats was very hyper earlier today. She is usually pretty calm.

There was no advance warning for this? I'm very surprised.

 

[slingblade]

Felt it here in the Adirondacks, too.

There's rarely ever any advance warning, but that may be changing.

"Detecting stress changes before an earthquake has been the Holy Grail in earthquake seismology for years and has motivated our research," said study co-author Paul Silver of the Carnegie Institution of Science's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. "Researchers have been trying to precisely and continuously measure these velocity changes for decades, but it has been possible only recently, with improved technology, to obtain the necessary precision and reliability."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080709144210.htm

 

[DC]

i felt nothing.

 

[Crossbow]

I am in Charleston, WV and I just barely felt it.

 

[kookbreaker]

It's coincidence. We told you not to build on a Pet Semetary, but you with all your "scienciness" said it would be fine.

No way! Despite the bad press revived pets are the cuddliest!

 

[Lucian]

I felt a wee shaking in Atlanta. I thought I was imagining it, but then Twitter exploded.

 

[Spindrift]

Felt it in Connecticut. I thought someone was on the roof of the building.

 

[DC]

Felt it in Connecticut. I thought someone was on the roof of the building.

one person on the roof feels like a earthquake? maybe you should move out there

 

[Travis]

Looks like you guys got what we call out here in California a picture adjuster.

It hits and then you spend the next few minutes straightening all your framed pictures on the wall while making bets on how powerful it was and far away.

 

[Spindrift]

one person on the roof feels like a earthquake? maybe you should move out there

Well it could have been bigfoot.

 

[Kochanski]

East Coast earthquake

Some serious shaking here, building I work in moving, we stood outside for a bit but all is quiet now.

Anyone else feel this quake?

 

[Kaylee]

i felt nothing.

Nothing in Switzerland? Really? LOL!

BTW, the USGS web site has a page to report if you felt the quake. Very quick survey.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/c0005ild/us/index.html

 

[Kaylee]

Looks like you guys got what we call out here in California a picture adjuster.
It hits and then you spend the next few minutes straightening all your framed pictures on the wall while making bets on how powerful it was and far away.

Nice name for it, I'm gonna use it.

 

[Charlie Monoxide]

Definitely felt it in London, Ontario (about 2 hours SW of Toronto) but it was light and lasted 3-4 seconds at most.

I am on the 19th floor of a 20 floor office tower.

Never considered Virginia much of a quake zone.

Charlie (shake your booty) Monoxide

 

[Wowbagger]

Does anyone else think it was in really poor taste for The Disney Channel to run episodes of Shake It Up! right after the earthquake?!

 

[icerat]

pic of DC earthquake devastation