Earthquake!

Anyone living on the east coast today: Did you feel that earthquake? 5.8 hit Washington area around 1:52 PM. It was a large but weak-ish earthquake, if you've never been in one you might be startled. It hit all the way from Toronto to New York to Washington to my small town I'm living in, and to Charlotte and rumors say Atlanta.

Check it out:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-08-23/Earthquake-rocks-East-Coast/50107542/1

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=37.9360,-77.9330(M5.8+-+Virginia+-+2011+August+23+17:51:04+UTC)&t=h&z=7&iwloc=A

Personally I did not feel it. I was walking in a ground-level area getting some Coffee from a local shop, but I hear stories from my cousins in New York whom live in apartments high up having their things moved around, even cousins in the island (Long Island) having their house shaken.

For anyone whom is concerned about the US disregard it. There's some mass panic here but I think we're just attention hungry. Nothing significant, just something pretty cool.

5.8? This isn't so bad man, I guess...  :-\ Fortunatelly it wasn't under the Atlantic's bottom, because this could hit hard East Coast.

cephalos wrote:
5.8? This isn't so bad man, I guess...  :-\ Fortunatelly it wasn't under the Atlantic's bottom, because this could hit hard East Coast.

Yes, 5.8 is minimal compared to those devastating earthquakes in other parts of the world, it's just that there is no fault line on the east coast, creating a bit of a panic. My twitter feed is filled with "OMG WORLD IS GOING TO END" and I go "STFU it's a 5.8..." (This earthquake was formed due to a "Fault Scar" which is located under Virgina and was a fault line over 300 million years ago.)

Scar error ? :P

I suppose...Maybe Rizz caused the earthquake?  ::)

While the US shake, we are under heavy rain and winds from hurricane irlene. Damn I love this planet.

Its probably the earth saying when is the ostheer coming out.

Last edited August 23, 2011 at 8:42 PM by Darkjolly

Darkjolly wrote:
While the US shake, we are under heavy rain and winds from hurricane irlene. Damn I love this planet.

Its probably the earth saying when is the ostheer coming out.

Apparently that is supposed to hit the coast here soon. We act like we're the center for disaster (And sometimes we do have tragic events...like Katrina) but all in all we're big cry babies :P

When Japan had it's nuclear disaster/earthquake/tsunami they initially denied foreign aid but later accepted it when the Nuclear plant seemed to go haywire. The US is still crying over New Orleans :P

America had hurricanes, earthquakes and Seeme, while Europe had wars, starvations, plagues and more wars -_- and this is the world we live in...

Ya felt the quakes up here in NYC. Felt kinda weird but I've felt quakes before so wasn't too scary

Felt like a boat rocking around :P. The news is making a bg deal about it though.

Ya cause its the first quake we have felt here in forever

Felt a aftershock at about 4 AM. It was pretty epic actually. I live near a train depot but this was no train.

Nothing too damaging I find this pretty awesome :D

They said the last EQ on the east coast was near WWII :o