Holy crap! There was an earthquake nearby today....

ANNANDALE, Va. -- A small earthquake shook the Washington area Tuesday, and some residents reported feeling tremors, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The tremor struck at about 1:30 p.m., according to the United States Geological Survey.

The epicenter was about one mile west-southwest of Annandale or about 13 miles away from Washington, D.C. The Geological Survey estimated its magnitude at 1.8.

There have been no reports of damage or injuries.

http://www.nbc4.com/news/16176961/detail.html?dl=mainclick
Okay, I didn't feel it and 1.8 isn't strong but for an area thats not at all used to earthquakes-- Freaky....:o

Mr. DTBK is still there, however. Bullwinkle has been through too many earthquakes, and I'm sure she'd feel you were lucky not to feel it!

It was the first earthquake I ever felt!! (that I remember, I mean) I felt the rumble for at least five seconds, longer even I think. It felt like when a plane flies down close or a big truck goes by but neither of those happened. It was SO weird.. I had to call my husband at work and try to tell him about it, then I went outside and 3 other neighbors had come out looking confused too. Then I searched online and found it mentioned in one place and then my NPR started mentioning it, they said it was felt in Bailey's Crossroads which is right where I am!
I feel tougher now, I had a earthquake :headbang: I called my friend in San Francisco about it but he wasn't impressed with my 1.8

but if I felt it, I probably thought it was a truck.

I've had sex better than that!

:evilgrin:

Heck, other than perhaps an occasional P-wave "bang" at the end, a 2.0 feels like at most an 18-wheeler truck going down the street about 50 yards away from your front door. When I worked by the docks, the 100-ton cranes going up and down the pier made more noise and vibration.
When I looked, I expected all those responses to be only in the 1-sq. mile area of the epicenter - like in one of those "townhouse estate" developments that are in that area, but all over the DC area - out to Silver Springs and Bethesda? And to rate it a "III" at that? Sorry, but I have to snort and say "wimps". I don't even wake up unless it's above a 2.7 (which is rather like a sonic boom or a low-flying plane) and it's gotta be within a mile at that.

Haele

if it was at night I mean. It was still kind of exciting for us wimps who'd never felt earthquakes :headbang:

It felt sort of like when the plane hit the pentagon a few miles away so I was listening to the news a waiting for some big emergency, I was relieved to hear what it was.

No matter how used to them you are. It's sort of like a "calm before a storm" you get before a hurricane (which I'd rather experiance an earthquake than experience a hurricane or tornado) - it's our lizard brain recognizing that mamma earth is moving and it could be dangerous.

Us Left-coasters build for quakes, it's gotta be pretty close and pretty big to do much damage if you live in anything built later than the 1930's, had retrofitted, or if you aren't right on top of the epicenter. Most of the time, an earthquake is nothing worse than an E ticket ride. You east coasters aren't built for quakes, and that makes even the small ones rather dangerous, especially if you're built on fill, not bedrock.

Peace Out - :hippie:

Haele

than the ones on the west coast.

"did you feel it" :rofl:

that was temeah falling off the bar stool!!!!


pffftttttt


:rofl:



lost

She was at work and felt it. She said it felt like a truck had hit the building. very brief.

She's said she and her staff felt it. She is pretty reliable.

it was until i saw water sloshing over the sides of the pool. 1.8 is pretty small but if if she was right over the epicenter i guess they'd feel something.

I must have been right over it too because as busy and crowded as my neighborhood is it still got my neighbors all out in the street.

I see here it was laughable and not worth mentioning but it was my first :shrug:

where they don't occure i can see how it would weird you out and imo they don't feel at all like i thought it would, when the one happened here it felt like the slab rolled which was pretty fucking freaky.

in Bailey's Crossroads I swear it lasted at least five seconds, I think the length of it was what got my neighbors outside looking confused.

especially if you live in an area where you really don't expect it.

that's what. My neighbors had NO idea what had happened either, I hope they caught the news.

that's a car driving by. Three blocks away.

:rofl:

or in my neighborhood, it's the train going by.

Since the epicenter was in a very suburban area, yeah, it was probably pretty noticeable.

(I found it soon after it happened. The Army building that the article says may have caused it wasn't the cause- my husband is actually working on the site the article talks about and he said they did have an underground explosion today but it wasn't until at least 4:00, he didn't get of work until 6:00 because of it.
http://dcist.com/2008/05/06/rumbles_felt_in.php
They mentioned it every 30 minutes on WAMU too.

This is clearly moronic to even speak of so that's IT for MY fricking story today x( )

i'm sure Rush has cancelled all their upcoming concerts due to this. :think:

They rocked so hard, it caused quakes in five different places. They're being called Rush Quakes!

they don't even use actual drums. :eyes:

It feels less than a big truck driving in front of your house.