Earthquake in DC

woodsyi · « **on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:02 pm »

We just had a 5.8 earthquake in DC. Freaky.

BPoletti · « **Reply #1 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:03 pm »

It was actually 6.0. I hope everybody is OK.

woodsyi · « **Reply #2 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:07 pm »

My building just shook and rumbled. Lots of stuff on the wall rattled around. No real damage that I can see. It was weird. My wife up on a high rise in Tysons Corner was evacuated.

jjc1 · « **Reply #3 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:11 pm »

Quote from: woodsyi on 23 Aug 2011, 06:07 pm

My building just shook and rumbled. Lot of stuff on the wall rattled around. No real damage that I can see. It was weird. My wife up on a high rise in Tysons Corner was evacuated.

Felt it in New Jersey

bladesmith · « **Reply #4 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:13 pm »

I didn't think you guys had earthquakes out their...

I also read they just had a quake out in Denver...on Monday..

jtwrace · « **Reply #5 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:14 pm »

We felt the tremors NC!!!!

SET Man · « **Reply #6 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:18 pm »

Hey!

Crazy man! I felt it here in Queens, NYC

My apartment, an old 3 story townhouse shake a bit. I thought it was a big truck passing by but it wasn't.

I've never experience anything like this in my 21 years here in NYC.

It wasn't a big one like you see on the news but I can feel it and hear the shelf banging a against the wall a bit for a few seconds. I hope this build can stand the quake if there is more after shocks.

I'm checking the local news right now here in NYC.

Take care,
Buddy

Socrates7 · « **Reply #7 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:18 pm »

Completely unacceptable. Saw my new Maggies swaying like leaves in a breeze. Not cool!

woodsyi · « **Reply #8 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:19 pm »

The epicenter is reported to be in Mineral, VA, 80 miles from DC.

dwk · « **Reply #9 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:20 pm »

Quote from: bladesmith on 23 Aug 2011, 06:13 pm

I didn't think you guys had earthquakes out their...

I also read they just had a quake out in Denver...on Monday..

Not in Denver, but down south near the CO-NM border. 'Just' a 5.3, but that's the biggest quake in CO in over 40 years.

Weird that 2 places not known for geologic instability get hit at about the same time.

Crimson · « **Reply #10 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:25 pm »

Mini tsunami in my pool! Water was lapping up over the edge. House was swaying, and my beer fell over.

BPoletti · « **Reply #11 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:28 pm »

Oh, NO!!! Not your beer!! That's a human tragedy.

fly_fish_nz · « **Reply #12 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:29 pm »

I'm in DC and it was definitely stronger than we're used to in these parts - we live in an older farm house and I had to grab my computer monitor so it wouldn't fall off my 2nd floor desk. Fortunately my stand mounted monitors downstairs didn't fall over, but it was enough of a warning that I moved them to a couch in case there is more in store for us.

Dan_ed · « **Reply #13 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:29 pm »

Felt it in this 13 story office building in Lowell, MA. I live in New Hampshire, the Granite State, and we do get small tremors often enough. This felt about the same until I saw the headlines start popping up.

Larkston Zinaspic · « **Reply #14 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:30 pm »

Felt it on Long Island. I live on the third floor in my building and at first I thought the fat lady upstairs was stomping around again...until I realized she wasn't home and the building was moving under my feet...dishes were rattling in the cabinets. It was especially alarming since I'd never experienced this before...hopefully not again.

bladesmith · « **Reply #15 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 06:31 pm »

Quote from: fly_fish_nz on 23 Aug 2011, 06:29 pm

I'm in DC and it was definitely stronger than we're used to in these parts - we live in an older farm house and I had to grab my computer monitor so it wouldn't fall off my 2nd floor desk. Fortunately my stand mounted monitors downstairs didn't fall over, but it was enough of a warning that I moved them to a couch in case there is more in store for us.

Good idea, there will be after shocks tonight and tomorrow..

rpf · « **Reply #16 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 07:21 pm »

Also felt it on Long Island. It was weird because I was sitting in a chair in a ground floor room on a 5" concrete slab over a few inches of EPS insulation over a few inches of gravel and the chair was rocking!!! I'd never been in an earthquake before; it was kind of fun.

Rick Craig · « **Reply #17 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 07:26 pm »

Really shook my place here in North Carolina, next up, a hurricane.

jtsnead · « **Reply #18 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 07:27 pm »

I was looking out my kitchen window and I saw the window grids moving
back and forth'

Also could see waves in my pool

Wierd feeling, in Maryland

Whitese · « **Reply #19 on:** 23 Aug 2011, 07:38 pm »

We felt in in North Bergen, NJ....my kid yelled: Someone's shaking the bed!!! I felt the subtle sway at my laptop...