EastCoast NPZ Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 I didn't feel the aftershock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 im going to sleep in a doorway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 im going to sleep in a doorway with or without your quart of Schlitz at your side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 We can use you to predict quakes! Either predict or create. Pick your poison... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 maybe it will keep snapping northeast. everyone is so jealous of our earthquakes. This is the 2009-2010 season of earthquakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 The aftershock fell off the map and list of earthquakes at least for me weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodhi Cove Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Q: Is there earthquake weather? There is no such thing as "earthquake weather". Statistically, there is approximately an equal distribution of earthquakes in cold weather, hot weather, rainy weather, etc. Very large low-pressure changes associated with major storm systems (typhoons, hurricanes, etc) are known to trigger episodes of fault slip (slow earthquakes) in the Earth’s crust and may also play a role in triggering some damaging earthquakes. However, the numbers are small and are not statistically significant. FAQ's USGS Earthquake myths Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Must be climate change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Best ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodhi Cove Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 The aftershock fell off the map and list of earthquakes at least for me weird. Listed in the M1+ (not M3+) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virginiamom Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 The aftershock fell off the map and list of earthquakes at least for me weird. It's gone for me too. And I KNOW I felt it, so that's strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 Listed in the M1+ (not M3+) The 4.2 one? - And I'm not viewing on that I'm viewing on "View all Earthquakes on this Map" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 It's gone for me too. And I KNOW I felt it, so that's strange. Well plus lots of people felt it around the area per some VA folks and some MD folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodhi Cove Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 The aftershock fell off the map and list of earthquakes at least for me weird. Never mind. They keep switching the 4.2 back and forth between the lists for M1+ and M3+ (I have no idea why) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Not seeing it either. But my wife and I both definitely felt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Best ever From reddit.com "If you stop eating outside, the earthquakes have won." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Didn't feel it up north of Baltimore... The aftershock I mean Me neither. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Just out of curiosity, can someone explain how it felt? Was it more of a roll, and then more violent shaking? Just wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 Just out of curiosity, can someone explain how it felt? Was it more of a roll, and then more violent shaking? Just wondering. Horizontal shaking back and forth at least most of it. Initially it was a bit like a rattle then shaking. Almost as if you were standing on a book that was being moved back and forth on a table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodhi Cove Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Update time = Wed Aug 24 1:14:35 UTC 2011 MAP 4.2 2011/08/24 00:04:36 37.912 -77.951 7.9 11 km ( 7 mi) SSW of Mineral, VA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Just out of curiosity, can someone explain how it felt? Was it more of a roll, and then more violent shaking? Just wondering. My students (I teach high school) noticed it first. It side to side shaking of the entire school building (I was on the 3rd floor). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 5.8 is probably pushing some of the limits for building integrity. The newer ones are ok, but I would think anything larger than a 6.0 would be a real problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 5.8 is probably pushing some of the limits for building integrity. The newer ones are ok, but I would think anything larger than a 6.0 would be a real problem. Wife and I went out for a walk with the dog earlier and saw quite a few chimneys that lost some bricks and/or mortar, and a few that will need a pretty good overhaul. I'd agree that it was pretty close to big enough to cause some real problems this close to the epicenter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 5.8 is probably pushing some of the limits for building integrity. The newer ones are ok, but I would think anything larger than a 6.0 would be a real problem. It's been a long while but I've been through 6.7, 7.1, 7.3 on the upper limits.. none super close epicenter but not any further than this one. This was a solid quake.. taking it inside a building and seeing some of the aftermath I would not want to go higher. My condo is well built but I'm pretty sure it's unreinforced brick like many. You can only push that so far. I felt pretty much all the waves I think. Started as a wobbly jellow like feeling followed by monitor swaying type of stuff and then finally a few seconds of surface wave activity which was more jolty. It's also pretty dependent on what floor of a building you're on (higher floors should feel more general swaying etc), soil type, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Just out of curiosity, can someone explain how it felt? Was it more of a roll, and then more violent shaking? Just wondering. I would describe it as a pitch and roll feeling. I was seated on a bench. I felt like it came from behind me and pushed me forward then a sensation of moving back, like I had my back to a wave in the ocean I guess. This happened several times in quick succession that got harder toward the end of the 25 seconds of quaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 DCPS hasn't decided to close schools or not, they say they are doing an inspection of all 126 buildings tonight. Why does it seem like inspecting 126 buildings in one night is impossible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheesyPoofs Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 This is the 2009-2010 season of earthquakes. Pretty cool to have experienced two once in a century (if not longer) events in the past two years in winter 09-10 and this earthquake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 DCPS hasn't decided to close schools or not, they say they are doing an inspection of all 126 buildings tonight. Why does it seem like inspecting 126 buildings in one night is impossible? Allegedly MoCo did their buildings supposedly lol - they released a statement saying all buildings were fine. But that statement came at like 3 or 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jac_not_in_dc Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 I feel so gypped. I was inside my office building at McPherson Square, walking pretty deeply into the center of the building on the 4th floor, and I heard some rumbling and felt a thud like some heavy equipment was getting moved (I wasn't that far from the freight elevators, so it wasn't that abnormal of a sound/sensation). I kept walking, and it wasn't until I got to the lobby and saw the hordes of flustered people heading for the exits that I found out what happened. Two things on my desk were tipped over, so if I had just stayed put for about 20 seconds longer I would have known what was going on. Everyone who sits around me said it was totally obvious it was an earthquake. Waaah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brianonymous Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Scared... the living.. CRAP out of me.. I work from home, here in Edgewater.. I have been in a small quake on the west coast, which just felt like a train going by.. This made that look silly. Knocked my laptop off my holding stand thing. I know it sounds silly in retrospect - but I went into full on adrenaline survival mode. Within 4-5 seconds, I went upstairs to get my daughter out of her crib.. This house was making noises I never ever heard it make before. I'll fully admit, I was shaking like a leaf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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