Ice
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« on: August 23, 2011, 11:14:47 AM » |
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Woohooo!!!!!!!!! That was fun we had a 5.8 in VA, I was sitting in my office when it started to rumble and I was thinking who the hell is jumping up an down  then the whole building shook, the whole place is in an uproar and it was not even that bad, did not even knock a picture down. |
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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2011, 11:23:26 AM » |
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Oss
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« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2011, 11:26:14 AM » |
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my secretaries kid just called they felt it in queens ny and also down in manhattan
to be honest with the trains going by 25 feet above my office all the time I did not notice anything
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hubcapsc
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« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2011, 11:32:45 AM » |
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There was a small temblor in SC when I was a child. As luck would have it,
I was jumping on the bed when it happened, so I didn't feel it at all. My parents
did though. STOP JUMPING ON THE BED, YOU'RE SHAKING THE WHOLE HOUSE!
-Mike "I get blamed for everything"
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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2011, 11:51:55 AM » |
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it was felt in Columbus Ohio
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bscrive
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« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2011, 11:56:34 AM » |
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Apparently, it was even felt up here in Ottawa. I didn't notice anything.
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John Schmidt
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« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2011, 11:57:05 AM » |
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My wife just got a call from her daughter in the D.C. area. She and her daughter were shopping in a homewares store and all the glass started to fall off shelves. First thing she thought of was another attack with a large bomb. Some friends in N. Car. also felt it so it was apparently rather strong. Sis-in-law in Roanoke, VA was bounced off her bed. She joked about it....said now she will start waiting until later in the day to have her first martini....just in case it wasn't an earthquake. She's 89, and a real character.  |
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« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2011, 11:58:57 AM » |
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I live a few miles from the San Andreas fault here in SOCAL. We get quite a reaction to a 5.8 here also. It is usually Ho Hum . . . Yawn.  
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« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2011, 12:11:51 PM » |
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Heard on the news this morning that southern Colorado had a small Quake around Trinidad last night, I guess they felt it into Northern NM, that don't happen very offten.
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« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2011, 12:31:19 PM » |
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Felt it here in Pittsburgh. Up on the 6th floor of a 100+ year old building...it swayed pretty good for about 10-15 seconds.
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« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2011, 12:51:50 PM » |
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my secretaries kid just called they felt it in queens ny and also down in manhattan
to be honest with the trains going by 25 feet above my office all the time I did not notice anything
I didn't feel a thing either, Ev. I'm working from home today. Other folks around here said they felt it. |
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« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2011, 12:53:56 PM » |
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I was sleeping! Patty said the sign shook at the bank a little.
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« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2011, 02:53:45 PM » |
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Scared the crap out of me and the dog. Wife was sitting down in an eazy chair.
We're about 90 miles NE of the epi-center.
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« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2011, 05:36:45 PM » |
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I asked the wifey if she felt the earth move? Received the same answer I always get. Nope, she replies, haven't felt anything for years.  |
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3fan4life
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« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2011, 06:44:21 PM » |
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I live a few miles from the San Andreas fault here in SOCAL. We get quite a reaction to a 5.8 here also. It is usually Ho Hum . . . Yawn. I was teaching today when it hit. It shook the building a little but not much. Several of the students began to freak out............. I told them that people in CA would be laughing at us for making a big deal out of such a minor quake. |
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« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2011, 07:10:09 PM » |
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Was in mt.crawford va. for work when it happened ,took me by surprise,shook for about a minute
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« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2011, 07:14:18 PM » |
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Colorado AND Virginia ? Huh, that's weird, Didnt feel anything in the middle of KS! Maybe y'all should visit once in a while..it's safe here !  |
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rmrc51
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« Reply #17 on: August 24, 2011, 03:37:16 AM » |
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I'm about 25 miles from the epicenter. I tell ya, the building felt like it was coming apart but surprisingly, no damage that we can see. A few ceiling tiles fell and that's about it. My wife was at home and outside of some shelves emptying and pictures that fell, she said she could see the walls of the house sway. Those aftershocks through the night were the most unsettling in my opinion. If was as if there was an entity under the ground warning us that he's still there.
I tell ya,,, an earthquake on Tuesday with an hurricane set for the weekend. Does 2012 come to mind?? lol.
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« Reply #18 on: August 24, 2011, 04:08:47 AM » |
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I was teaching today when it hit.
It shook the building a little but not much.
Several of the students began to freak out............. I told them that people in CA would be laughing at us for making a big deal out of such a minor quake. I was standing in the Writing Center talking to co-workers when we felt it here in NC. The new building I was in rumbled notably. The older buildings shook hard enough to freak people out. One of the other teachers was starting her American Lit I course downstairs, talking about "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" when the building started moving. That would have been cool timing and makes a better story. I was just chatting. No damage here. |
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hubcapsc
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« Reply #19 on: August 24, 2011, 07:16:54 AM » |
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I live a few miles from the San Andreas fault here in SOCAL. We get quite a reaction to a 5.8 here also. It is usually Ho Hum . . . Yawn. If I was 1,000 feet tall and I smashed the ground with my 100 ton sledge hammer in California, it would go "thud"... out here it would ring like a bell... we're solid granite, y'all get so many earthquakes you're pure gravel... the same hit feels different out here... -Mike "I felt nothing..." |
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« Reply #20 on: August 24, 2011, 07:20:28 AM » |
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rmrc51
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« Reply #21 on: August 24, 2011, 07:46:58 AM » |
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« Reply #22 on: August 24, 2011, 09:21:50 AM » |
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If I was 1,000 feet tall and I smashed the ground with my 100 ton sledge hammer in California, it
would go "thud"... out here it would ring like a bell... we're solid granite, y'all get so many earthquakes
you're pure gravel... the same hit feels different out here...
-Mike "I felt nothing..."
Not exactly true.  Around here a large quake can cause "Liquefaction" of the ground. As a consequence of liquefaction, clay-free soil deposits, primarily sands and silts, temporarily lose strength and behave as viscous fluids rather than as solids. Liquefaction is restricted to certain geologic and hydrologic environments, mainly areas where sands and silts were deposited in the last 10,000 years and where ground water is within 30 feet of the surface. Liquefaction can cause three types of ground failure: lateral spreads, flow failures, and loss of bearing strength. Lateral spreads involve the lateral movement of large blocks of soil as a result of liquefaction in a subsurface layer. Flow failures, consisting of liquefied soil or blocks of intact material riding on a layer of liquefied soil, are the most catastrophic type of ground failure caused by liquefaction. When the soil supporting a building or some other structure liquefies and loses strength, large deformations can occur within the soil, allowing the structure to settle and tip, i.e. loss of bearing strength. |
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« Reply #23 on: August 24, 2011, 09:30:17 PM » |
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Oh, you mean the tremblement de terre.
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« Reply #24 on: August 24, 2011, 10:02:41 PM » |
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Walked around the house afterwords to see if anything was amiss. Nothing....... then today opened the safe and found a stack of full factory ammo boxes toppled with $200 cash that had been stuck in there some years ago. Silver lining.
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