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So anyone feel the earthquake?

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:50 pm
by FlyingPenguin
How about you, wvjohn?

What people fail to realize is that THERE IS NO PLACE ON EARTH where there aren't earthquakes, given a long enough period of time. It's just that mid-plate quakes happen rarely. They could have a large quake in New York City, but it's just unlikely to happen anytime in the next 100,000 years. Then again it could happen tomorrow.

They even happen in Florida: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... on=Florida

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:10 pm
by normalicy
Didn't feel a darn thing here. Most people don't know, but there was a quake in Colorado too. The same day & about the same intensity.

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:23 pm
by Err
I felt it in Athens, Ohio. I was setting at my desk, revising procedure with my headphones on. Suddenly I felt weird and slightly off balance. I thought I was going to have to find a doctor. The tremor itself was very mild. You had to be still to feel it.

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:41 pm
by Pugsley
Nope.. was on a plane. Had I not got on the plane I should have felt it.

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:44 pm
by Lmandrake
Lost some stuff off my wall in at my work office. Had a few things fall over and off shelves at home. It was a real shake in DC. The National Cathedral had 3 out of 4 capstones fall off the spires of one of the towers. Those would have left a mark if they had hit anybody.

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:31 pm
by darcy
we felt it for 'bout 8-10 seconds in our room @ myrtle beach!

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:03 pm
by ©LINT
Wife felt it at Fort Bragg, NC. People in my town felt it but I didn't. I am desensitized from that type of stuff since I have a rambunctious 3 year old. . ;)

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:47 pm
by CaterpillarAssassin
ya I felt it too. Same reaction, thought I was getting dizzy. Walked out of my office to make a copy and the guy in the next office asked if I felt that. Guess it wasn't just me after all. Too small to knock anything off the walls or anything, though.