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- 46HudsonPU August 2011
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Earthquake!
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I've spent my entire 60 years living in the Washington D.C. area and today was the first earthquake I've ever experienced.:ohmy:
Fortunately it only lasted about 10 seconds but that was quite enough. At first I thought it was a large helicopter flying over but when I didn't hear anything I thought, hmmmm......then my chair started bouncing up and down and when the clock fell off the bookcase and shattered I decided it was time to get outta the house!
Did anybody else feel it? It hit at 1:51pm EDT.
You folks in California can keep your damned earthquakes! :lol:
Kevin C. -
5.9, that was a "weasel" earthquake. You need to experience a real "jolt" as in Calif. types. I was living in L.A. in '71 at the time of the "Northridge earthquake" - freeways collapsed, one hospital dropped down 1 floor into parking area, where I lived no power or water for 3 days.
5.9, that ain't no earthquake, that's just a little "shaker", LOL -
Actually, I think the Republican party finally imploded.
In reality, however, I hope no one was injured nor property damaged.
There have been minor shakes in the New England area - a couple I remember we got in Maine I thought the clothes washer was off balance. And then realized we weren't washing clothes!!!!
Best to all in the zone.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN -
Yup, I was at work in my office when it hit. Started out very slight - similar to an aircraft passing low overhead or a large truck going by, then just shaked the S***! out of the building (brick and concrete, 4 stories + a basement). Seemed like a long time, but was pobably only about 15-25 seconds.Kevin C. wrote:I've spent my entire 60 years living in the Washington D.C. area and today was the first earthquake I've ever experienced.:ohmy:
Fortunately it only lasted about 10 seconds but that was quite enough. At first I thought it was a large helicopter flying over but when I didn't hear anything I thought, hmmmm......then my chair started bouncing up and down and when the clock fell off the bookcase and shattered I decided it was time to get outta the house!
Did anybody else feel it? It hit at 1:51pm EDT.
You folks in California can keep your damned earthquakes! :lol:
Kevin C.
Not my first, not by a long shot. As a kid in the 60's, my family lived in the suburbs of LA - out there, an earthquate only got a 'mention' in the news unless it was higher than a 4.5+... I was riding my bike one time out there when one hit, and found myself on the other side of the street - still riding & still going in the same direction (luckily, no traffic).
They did their inspection declared the building safe, and sent us home for the day, to check on our family and property.
No problems here - My wife and her dog were a but upset though... -
I was sitting in a country church in Virginia on Tuesday, awaiting a funeral, when the pews started rocking by themselves. I thought a "person of size" had walked into the church behind me, until someone later informed me I'd been through my first earthquake. But -- alas! -- it didn't hold a candle to your average low-grade California quake.
Then, last night at 1:07 AM I was sitting in my home working on my computer when a subway train passed under the house and rattled the windows. Then I realized we don't HAVE subway trains out here in the country. Quake #2.
Now we await a hurricane...
