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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 11:36:16 AM

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Of course, per ABC news, the cell phone systems are "overwhelmed".

They just said that now it's getting close to 6.0.

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 11:42:19 AM

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5.9. They upgraded it. Not that I think a 0.1 would make much of a difference.

The richter scale is logarithmic. Each tenth of a point is a doubling of the energy released. So 0.1 is a very big difference.

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 11:48:04 AM

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Oh..that was caused by Ron Paul shaking up Washington. It was in the news last night.

yeah... ooooook then

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 11:50:04 AM

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Scared the beejezus out of us. Things broke in the house. I knew what it was asap from living in SF for many years and got everyone marshalled up. Prevented them from going outside (worse place to be if you're anywhere populated). Can't call on cells, we can text though. It was very scary. I haven't felt that in so long, used to wake me up at night.

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 11:50:29 AM

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delusional idiots get around dont they, Termy did call it tho:) well done termy, conspiracy morons are out and about

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 11:53:37 AM

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lol.. arent they always. he isnt talking to me, but replies to my post... my thread.

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 11:58:47 AM

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ooooh big man, hes now threatening you
what waste of veins

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 12:00:44 PM

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I hope everybody is OK

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 12:03:09 PM

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The epicenter was farm land... thankfully. Havent heard of any injuries as of yet. Just very strange to feel something like this on the east coast Biggest problem seems to be cell phone service.

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 12:05:40 PM

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thats pus....
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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 12:06:32 PM

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Felt 4-5 tremors in NYC... apparently since Mahnattan is sitting on hard stone (granite/basalt), it absorbed a lot of the aftershock energy, so we felt it while people in New Jersey didn't.

Everyone seems to be OK, damage is mostly confined to cell phone service and intermittent Internet issues. And even that's not too widespread - AT&T seems to be having issues, but Boost and Virgin are OK.

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 12:07:09 PM

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I told her to stop communicating with me

Yet you come to a thread I started, respond to a post I made, and now cry that someone wont stop responding to you.

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 12:07:43 PM

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The epicenter was farm land... thankfully. Havent heard of any injuries as of yet. Just very strange to feel something like this on the east coast Biggest problem seems to be cell phone service.

CNN is reporting various structural damages but no injuries as of yet. Let's hope it stays that way.

Cell service being difficult is rather typical as families try to contact loved ones to be sure they're ok, or to talk about it.

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 12:09:15 PM

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pet was on his cellphone but now its down again. People in cali laughin at us being all panicky, pbbbbbbbbtht

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 12:09:32 PM

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I felt the whole building shake, even the doors rattle. Scared the cats to no end. Called the man who is at work in downtown Pittsburgh... and they barely felt a thing.

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 12:11:11 PM

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pet was on his cellphone but now its down again. People in cali laughin at us being all panicky, pbbbbbbbbtht

Its natural for us to feel a bit of fear. Brick buildings built in the last century arent designed to take the shaking those buildings in Cali are able to take.

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 12:17:38 PM

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Not laughing here at all, actually. Like tazzy said, we're all retro-fitted to accommodate the ground moving, and we're (mostly) accustomed to feeling it. For someone who hasn't gone through this sort of thing with any regularity, it's gotta be really frightening!!

In the 1989 6.9 quake, I was at work. I worked with a woman from New York, who had never experienced an earthquake before. I personally thought I was going to die in that earthquake (because of what the building I was in was doing). She literally had to be peeled off the wall and went into a panic attack when we got her outside. Totally understandable!!

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 12:19:54 PM

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The biggest one I experienced in Cali was like a rolling motion... just enough to make you think you were spinning for a moment. the man's kid told me... it was like riding a skateboard! without the skateboard!!

This one didnt roll... it shook.

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 12:22:10 PM

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I felt it at my office, about 78 miles from the epicenter. It felt like our whole building was going to explode. We ran outside to the street. I very much did not like this. I wanted to go home earlier because I was tired. Now I just want to go home because... :(

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RE: Earthquake near DC - 8/23/2011 12:22:57 PM

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I was in San Francisco for the Pretty Big One in 1989. The Richter scale number is only a part of why an earthquake might be damaging. Other factors are depth of the quake beneath the earth & the direction of the waves. In my little apt in SF, nothing of mine was damaged, but my roommate had a lot of damage to her things. A bookcase wiggled out from a wall & the flashlight fell down behind it, but that's pretty much all that happened in my part of the house.

Weird things, these earthquakes. Also, if you see your house moving, that's a good thing. Because it means that it's not going to fall to pieces. California is filled with older brick buildings also, perhaps not as old as the ones on the East Coast. The problem in California was that the bricks would come off the facades of buildings. One reason people are told to not go outside.

There has been a lot of retrofitting since The Pretty Big One & there is less damage during the almost constant quakes & aftershocks they have out there.

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