Earthquake! Cool!

[Bullgrit]

Just rode out a ~30 second earthquake on the 5th floor of an office building! Wow, that was totally cool!

Edit: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10034284/

Edit: I really hope no one was hurt and nothing seriously damaged. I'm on the very edge of it, so it was just a wobbling here.

Bullgrit

 

[Ahnehnois]

I was listening to 3.5 Private Sanctuary when it it. Took me a while to figure out what it was. We don't get earthquakes in this part of the country.

 

[Umbran]

We felt it here in the Boston area. No damage this far away.

 

[Agamon]

Apparently it was pretty shallow. It was felt in Ohio and central Canada.

 

[Stumblewyk]

Everyone else in PA got to ride the thing out but me. I swear, I'm the only Pennsylvanian to not feel so much as a shiver in the ground.

Of course, I do technically work underground, and from what I'm gathering the higher your elevation, the better chance you had of feeling something. =/

I hope everyone's all right, but I can't help but feel just a teensy-weensy bit jipped.

 

[Bullgrit]

The funniest thing about it, here, in NC, is that everyone is starting to prepare for a potential hurricane landfall. And then we feel an earthquake.

The local news contacted the state emergency management offices and asked had they gotten any reports of any damage. The office replied, "We're busy with hurricane preparedness. No one is talking about an earthquake."

Bullgrit

 

[Aeolius]

In my part of NC the doors rattled and a chandelier swayed. Mind you, I live near an airport so the first thing I assumed was that the big gray military C-5 cargo plane was doing Touch-n-Goes again.

As for Irene, I wish I could head to the coast (a 3 hour drive). These brouhahas always seem to bring sargassum seaweed in from the Gulf.

 

[Mark CMG]

Good luck to everyone in the areas hit by this event.

 

[Relique du Madde]

... S I G H ....


I really hate it when we in California go through earth quake craziness over a moderate (5.0 - 6.2) quake that does no serious damage. I especially hate it when they start repeating the same 10 minute long lecture about how earthquakes work (every hour and on the hour), even though they gave us the lecture the last time a major quake occurred and/or flattened a city. I absolutely loath it when they start pulling out you-tube and cell phone video showing the earthquake occurring (without anything breaking on camera, showing people running like crazy, and only showing things swinging or waves being made in a pool a narrator say " [insert phrase] earth quake!").

That said, you can just imagine how I feel about the national coverage of your east coast yawn-tastic (by Californian standards) earth-quake.

 

[Janx]

I think it all depends on where you live on whats a significant natural event.

in CA, earthquakes are very common and boring.

Out east, earthquakes don't exist. So when one happens, it's big news.

I'm from MN, and when I moved to TX, people asked me how I could have lived in such a cold environment where the weather can kill you.

I laughed, because in all my years, I'd never lost power for more than a few hours, and preparing for cold was as easy as putting more clothes on. Compared to TX where hurricanes and tropical storms can flood you, blow your stuff down, and the power outage can last a month, and the heat can kill you.

So let the kids in the east have their earthquake panic fun. it probably is the only one they'll ever see if they don't travel to the west coast.

Apparently my client in PA had the office panic when it happened. They mentioned that everybody left the building for a bit when i had a concall with them. Otherwise, I had no idea an earthquake happened. I should check the news.