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The east coast has a measly 5.8 shaker and they are losing their minds??? its been none stop coverage of Nothing??? Nothing happened go back to work you cry babies..
 
Too bad it didn't happen during the debt debates.
 
To actually feel a 5.8 quiver you’d probably have to be standing still and be close to the epicenter.
 
We thought it was our President making a hole in one on his vacation... :roll:

Charlie
 
breausaw":31rbn07i said:
To actually feel a 5.8 quiver you’d probably have to be standing still and be close to the epicenter.
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Not really - I was near several 5.8's when I lived in Pasadena and they emptied stuff from my cabinet shelves and bounce my butt right off the floor. In the midwest where the rock bed is more solid, a 5.8 travels much farther.
 
The CNN talking rockhead said thet we have a flat plate here that tips.... you can feel things much further. No sliding plates like out west.

Where is our resident geologist Bill Fiero when we need him??? :mrgreen:

El, wake our expert up please.... :mrgreen:

Charlie
 
Same here. If my memory serves me and it usually doesn't, when we were in Kodiak, it was a lot less and my pop can shook off the desk.
Donna
 
I'd like to hear what Bill has to say also.
Still pretty unnerving when you haven't experienced before.
Stuff falling off shelves at work and at home.
I guess Tom's comment was "get used to it". But I'd rather not.
Bill
 
I have had the misfortune of being in many quakes including several over 6 and one over 7, a hurricane and close to several twisters. Makes a guy feel unloved and paranoid. I will take a earth quake ever time. They don't last long and really don't kill many people. Twister and hurricanes kill far more people far more often.

what I liked today was the every changeing camera shots of NOTHING WRONG for two hour today.
 
There seems to be no shortage of ribbing coming from us earthquake hardened west coasters...but one of the funnier responses I saw in return from the east:

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Tom:
I agree. We have a propensity here in the DC area for covering "nothing".
But guess what, expecting hurricane Irene this weekend. May come up the Chesapeake Bay.
Last time that happened, it was not pretty.
There is good and bad weather - then there is the unexpected.
And I love the snowmaggedon picture, Mr. Nag. Been there,
done that too many times.
Bill
 
Ya know, they need a baseball team in AK.
That would make you turn off the TV. :idea
 
Mike, the tv in the office is always on, but on that note we got rid of the tv at the house months ago. if its not on netflex I don't watch it. I could careless about Seattle news and if I did I would go on line. allows me to pick the stories I'm interested in.

as for Irene, run while you can. I was in Hugo, or I would have been if I was not smarter then the general population that just sat in their homes waiting for it to hit, and the destruction was impressive as hell. You will never find me anywhere near a hurricane until after it passes. Just leave your self enough time to get out, say 24 hours. If you wrong and the storm misses no harm done.
 
I'm waiting for our resident geologist to weigh-in as well.

Meanwhile, I posed the question to Prof Bill was yesterday's quake geologic or theologic? (I'm not overly religious, but I wondered if the quake was The Big Guy "thumping" Washington into doing some problem-solving!)

In other news, a friend has made an offer on a Nordic Tug in Annapolis, and wondered if the seller would agree to her offer. Then he noticed a hurricane moving up the coast, plus an unusual Quake in Washington ... he agreed to her offer! He may have thought: God, don't piss this woman off; take the Offer!

Casey
 
Sorry to be slow in responding. Got an e-mail from USGS about the quake in VA. So close to Washington I figured it must have been the politicos shaking the turf at Congress again and ignored it. Then I remembered hearing that they were in "deadlock" so checked for an earthquake. And sure enough, where the tectonic plate is usually 'locked' there was a shallow crack. Now, no 'shallow cracks' from you Brats in the pub about the politicos in tremor.

Anyway, about yesterday's earthquakes - quakes in the interior of tectonic plates are not common. However, our North American plate is trucking along westerly and any pre-existing structural weaknesses in the plate are liable to shift from the movement and forces.

Both the Colorado and Virginia quakes are in areas of known prior seismicity due to crustal weaknesses. They don't slip often, but there is a recorded history in those areas.

The New Madrid zone, in Missouri, had one of the largest quakes known within the plate interior - 200 years ago - a smash-a-roo. And there are many small quakes recorded in that zone.
 
And the Eastern geology is prone to transmit shock waves more readily than the western crust (not just because the media seems to focus more on the east than the west). Now, if you want to get into a discussion about the upper crust, don't bring that up here in the pub.

The east could get destructive quakes - Charleston (1886),
Boston (1755), Upstate New York (1663) ... Could happen ... Anytime Just not the probabilities as high as those along a plate boundary such as California, Oregon, Washington ....
 
Re: whether you can feel a 5.8 quake. I happened to be on Skimmer in her slip in S. Maryland when I heard banging outside. Looked out to see the pier and pilings banging against the port side. Thought it was the mother of all wakes until I saw all the pilings in the marina waving like reeds in the wind. Anyway, couldn't feel it afloat but could sure see and hear it.
 
Perspective. Tom, ol' buddy, you're a left coast guy, so your perspective is that 5.8 may be no big deal. For those who have never felt any kind of earthquake, it is a big deal.

Mother Nature has been tough on us this year... huge snowfalls (743 inches here in the Tetons), deadly drought resulting in wildfires, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and now a big-ass hurricane heading for the east coast. Every part of the country has been touched by something. Some may panic and say "The sky is falling," and old hands who have been through it before will say, "It's no big deal." For those who suffer a loss, it's a big deal.

Kinda like surgery... you know the difference between "major" and "minor" surgery? If they're cutting on you, it's major surgery; on someone else, it's minor.

Here's what it looked like locally yesterday, thanks to a nearby forest fire...

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Best wishes,
Jim

I shudder to think what it would be like to go months without sunshine! :disgust
 
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