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Merged 5.9 Quake Hits Virginia

Coworkers in Saguenay felt an earthquake around that time. That's pretty far north so I don't know if it's related. Here in Quebec city we didn't feel a thing, as usual.
 
Felt it in Raleigh, NC. The office doomsayer is saying it's just starting and going to get worse. I'm assuming because of the godless atheists and homosexuals. The usual.
 
I really hope nobody got hurt. Because I don't want to feel guilty about being at home with a cold beer in my hand and on top of the world. Thank you safety brigade!!
 
I'm also in southern Ontario and we also felt it in our building. Our office tower swayed for several seconds and chairs shook and such.

I've just finished adjusting pictures now. :)
 
Felt it in downtown Pittsburgh, 29th floor. The floor felt like a boat bobbing up and down about four or five times. I saw plants moving like they were in a light breeze.
 
Was in my building at work when it hit; nothing damaged though here, although I can't say what it's going to be like when I get home. I hope nothing got damaged there. Leaving early because they're supposedly shutting down a couple of the bridges around here and as a result traffic is going to be gnarly, to put it mildly.
 
Heh, it's a little amusing to view this from the west coast perspective. Most of us are pretty blase about smaller quakes, except the news media, who have to spend the next 24 hours running around reporting on whether people felt it or not.

Told to me after our Nisqually quake in '01 - coworker came home to find his betta bowl smashed on the floor but his betta still quite alive on the wet carpet. Once the fish's fin damage from drying out healed, he was good as ever.
 
deadrose said:
Heh, it's a little amusing to view this from the west coast perspective. Most of us are pretty blase about smaller quakes, except the news media, who have to spend the next 24 hours running around reporting on whether people felt it or not.
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That's pretty much what's going on here on the east coast. For instance, one news station mentioned that they're waiting for word from the President's office -- not that they expect him to make an announcement or anything, but they want to find out what he was doing at the time and whether he felt it or not. :p

The other "big" issue so far is, some nuclear power plants apparently had routine shutdowns, so now we're suddenly facing a situation just like Fukushima (except for the lack of any actual problem). :rolleyes:

Respectfully,
Myriad

ETA: Talking points for Republicans while awaiting the all-important Presidential anecdote: If Obama didn't feel the quake it means he's out of touch (literally). If he did, it means his position is shaky and easily influenced.
 
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Our building - I work on the 7th floor of a 60 year old building - shook quite a bit, but no damage. Don't know about home yet.

Maddog family has all checked in fine.
 
OK, at first I thought everyone was joking because my brain tuned out "Virgina" and replaced it with "Colorado". I know, I know, that's very unobservant of me, almost zombie brained. But earlier today there was a very unusual mid plate quake in Colorado. To have two unusual quakes, 5+ mag in rare places is even less probable and I wasn't expecting it.

EARTHQUAKES IN THE STABLE CONTINENTAL REGION
At well-studied plate boundaries like the San Andreas fault system in California, often scientists can determine the name of the specific fault that is responsible for an earthquake. In contrast, east of the Rocky Mountains this is rarely the case. All parts of this vast region are far from the nearest plate boundaries, which, for the U.S., are to the east in the center of the Atlantic Ocean, to the south in the Caribbean Sea, and to the west in California and offshore from Washington and Oregon. The region is laced with known faults but numerous smaller or deeply buried faults remain undetected. Even most of the known faults are poorly located at earthquake depths. Accordingly, few earthquakes east of the Rockies can be linked to named faults. It is difficult to determine if a known fault is still active and could slip and cause an earthquake. In most areas east of the Rockies, the best guide to earthquake hazards is the earthquakes themselves.
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Myriad said:
ETA: Talking points for Republicans while awaiting the all-important Presidential anecdote: If Obama didn't feel the quake it means he's out of touch (literally). If he did, it means his position is shaky and easily influenced.
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I know it's somewhat OT, but I still LOLed. :D
 
Felt it in Chautauqua county, NY. I don't know what is more disturbing, the amount my house swayed (to be fair this house dates back to the late 1700's), of the fact that I just sat here wondering what that was.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
OK, at first I thought everyone was joking because my brain tuned out "Virgina" and replaced it with "Colorado". I know, I know, that's very unobservant of me, almost zombie brained. But earlier today there was a very unusual mid plate quake in Colorado. To have two unusual quakes, 5+ mag in rare places is even less probable and I wasn't expecting it.

EARTHQUAKES IN THE STABLE CONTINENTAL REGION
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Speaking of this, here's a description of the local fault (though the seismology goes way above my head):

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/fm/neic_c0005ild_wmt.php
 
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