PerfectStorm
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No link yet, but I felt it in NC.
Reported just now as a 6.0.
Reported just now as a 6.0.
No link yet, but I felt it in NC.
Reported just now as a 6.0.
I wonder if that is what I felt here in Piedmont, south of Greenville SC?
j-mac
Looks like Irene is scaring the NE. It's shaking.
Yeah we just had some strong tremors here in DC. They evacuated the Metro and a lot of the buildings around here.
The Safeway I was in shook a lot. Stuff fell off the shelves. I hope the Metro is still running... I need to get to class...
We felt something even here in Rochester, NY. I was lying in bed and felt the bed shift ever so slightly. It was so weird.
It's very interesting to see and hear the reactions of people om the East Coast when they are hit with a moderate quake such as this one being reported as a 5.9.
Here in California pay very little attention to quakes this size because they are pretty common, and the reports from the East are as if this was a huge event and the Washington Mounument may be leaningm and a number of builtings have been evaquated and snd no one is being aloud ro go back inside.
Buildings in the East were not built to the same standards they are here and they might have damage we might not see.
So far it doesn't look like there's any damage (at least not in my immediate vicinity). I guess a 5.9 is too small to be very destructive even though our buildings aren't earthquake-proofed like they are in California. It was pretty weird though. Having never lived anywhere other than Ohio and the DC area, I've never felt an earthquake before.
This was first time in my life that I've felt an earthquake.It's very interesting to see and hear the reactions of people om the East Coast when they are hit with a moderate quake such as this one being reported as a 5.9.
Here in California pay very little attention to quakes this size because they are pretty common, and the reports from the East are as if this was a huge event and the Washington Mounument may be leaningm and a number of builtings have been evaquated and snd no one is being aloud ro go back inside.
Buildings in the East were not built to the same standards they are here and they might have damage we might not see.
So they're saying the Washington Monument is "tilting".
So they're saying the Washington Monument is "tilting".