We just had a pretty big earthquake in the Washington DC area

[Lumberg]

I was totally freaked out. There is a guy who works here who has a trained dog and flies off to places like Haiti and Japan when earthquakes hit so I just followed him.

There were lots of people on the sidewalks, cell phone networks jammed up, etc.

Pretty cool site on the data about it:

M5.8 – Virginia

 

[Strongbow]

wow

 

[calveless wonder]

5.8 is not a big earthquake by any stretch of the imagination, but the fact it happened in the north east is unbelievable

 

[digimon7068]

felt it here in northcentral pa...computer screens were shaking all over the place...looked outside and the utility lines were swinging back and forth...definitely the strongest one i've ever felt here in my life.

 

[Strongbow]

felt it here in northcentral pa...computer screens were shaking all over the place...looked outside and the utility lines were swinging back and forth...definitely the strongest one i've ever felt here in my life.

That's not what that was bro, wifey will tell ya about it when ya get home.

 

[calveless wonder]

felt it here in northcentral pa...computer screens were shaking all over the place...looked outside and the utility lines were swinging back and forth...definitely the strongest one i've ever felt here in my life.

i'm sure it was a lot worse for you when your horses were pulling covered wagons

 

[digimon7068]

5.8 is not a big earthquake by any stretch of the imagination, but the fact it happened in the north east is unbelievable

well..magnitude/intensity is broken down into 6 categories:

1.0 - 3.0
3.0 - 3.9
4.0 - 4.9
5.0 - 5.9
6.0 - 6.9
7.0 - greater

so, 5.8 to 6.0 (which this one was) isn't a sissy one either.

 

[nangiggles]

5.8 is not a big earthquake by any stretch of the imagination, but the fact it happened in the north east is unbelievable

indeed, I dont think I even remember a significant quake hitting that area... if it ever happened hre in FL I'd flip out, even thought I've been in 6.8 ones...

 

[miplank]

That's not what that was bro, wifey will tell ya about it when ya get home.

yeah, bring her some ice packs or a cold compress. She's gonna be a lil sore.

 

[Strongbow]

i'm sure it was a lot worse for you when your horses were pulling covered wagons

WUT.......is Digi like one of dem sophisticated mennonite ngrs.......with his fancy AM radio and electric windows?

 

[digimon7068]

i'm sure it was a lot worse for you when your horses were pulling covered wagons

covered wagons are for sissies

 

[calveless wonder]

WUT.......is Digi like one of dem sophisticated mennonite ngrs.......with his fancy AM radio and electric windows?

i'm talking about the days before his hair was gray

 

[zwhit]

WUT.......is Digi like one of dem sophisticated mennonite ngrs.......with his fancy AM radio and electric windows?

ol' slow ass boy

 

[digimon7068]

i'm talking about the days before his hair was gray

before it was gray? hell, i'd take the days before it was white.

 

[zwhit]

sucks to be old and feeble?

 

[digimon7068]

sucks to be old and feeble?

hahaha, i'm not ready for the nursing home yet.

 

[zwhit]

oh

 

[zwhit]

lololo

 

[calveless wonder]

nice life

 

[lartinos]

Friends in Brooklyn felt it pretty well, didn't feel Jackshit in Manhattan.

 

[-SD-]

Friends in Brooklyn felt it pretty well, didn't feel Jackshit in Manhattan.

If you had some advanced notice you could have set up a turn table and threw a dope earthquake party at the top of a skyscraper or something
Feel the vibrationzzzzzzzz boiiiiiiii

 

[miplank]

 

[-SD-]

thats not a cellphone hes talking on, its a detonator!!!!!!111111111

 

[Mr. dB]

Friends in Brooklyn felt it pretty well, didn't feel Jackshit in Manhattan.

Cyrus Vance was interrupted by it while they were dropping charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

 

[nefertiti]

I was driving within ten miles of the epicenter when it happened and didn't feel a thing lol

I love how people make a big deal about something that basically amounts to nothing. I stopped for gas about 20 minutes afterward and saw a bunch of people running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Yet there was zero property damage, zero injuries. The only reason I even knew anything had happened was because someone there accosted me within seconds asking me if I'd felt the quake.

 

[nefertiti]

btw, not saying it's not noteworthy, but the people who got all tragic about it like it was serious business and they were traumatized make me lol

 

[-SD-]

its like when it gets cold enough for some snow to fall in austin, whole town shuts down lolllll

 

[zwhit]

Lol sounds like down here when it snows. People act like its a blizzard but the snow doesn't even stick to the ground.

Cars are in the ditch everywhere.

 

[nefertiti]

its like when it gets cold enough for some snow to fall in austin, whole town shuts down lolllll

I still remember when I moved to austin everyone made a big deal about a snowfall that had happened in feb. When I finally saw pictures of the snowfall, it wasn't even enough to cover the tips of the grass.

 

[miplank]

Lol at you homos afraid of a lil dusting of snow

 

[-SD-]

I still remember when I moved to austin everyone made a big deal about a snowfall that had happened in feb. When I finally saw pictures of the snowfall, it wasn't even enough to cover the tips of the grass.

When did you live here ?
Bishes were out in their yards taking pics of the gutdam ice and snow on their yard. lollll

 

[PICK3]

I've knot experienced an earthquake before, though I've been told "you rocked my world" on moar than one occasion.


just sayin'

 

[nefertiti]

When did you live here ?
Bishes were out in their yards taking pics of the gutdam ice and snow on their yard. lollll

7-8 years ago....just for like ten months.

 

[zwhit]

Lol at you homos afraid of a lil dusting of snow

Lol Not me. Just a lot of dumbasses that forget how to do anything when anything out of the ordinary happens.

 

[-SD-]

I've knot experienced an earthquake before, though I've been told "you rocked my world" on moar than one occasion.


just sayin'

Did he rock yoar world too rob

 

[smurf2]

I was driving within ten miles of the epicenter when it happened and didn't feel a thing lol

I love how people make a big deal about something that basically amounts to nothing. I stopped for gas about 20 minutes afterward and saw a bunch of people running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Yet there was zero property damage, zero injuries. The only reason I even knew anything had happened was because someone there accosted me within seconds asking me if I'd felt the quake.

exactly. jesus christ we're gonna have to hear about this GD earthquake for the next few weeks all over the media. how annoying.

lol @ 'pretty big' earthquake.

 

[-SD-]

Im nowhere near it but from the feel of the media coverage i would expect windows to have been shattered at minimum.

 

[Strongbow]

i'm talking about the days before his hair was gray

Oh I see, like back in 1825.

 

[Lumberg]

Yet there was zero property damage,

The F are you talking about? Walls and chimneys fell down as far as Baltimore.

 

[nefertiti]

The F are you talking about? Walls and chimneys fell down as far as Baltimore.

I'd think it was pretty clear I was talking about the truck stop area where people where flipping out. There wasn't even a bag of chips on the ground and I was no more than thirty miles from the epicenter.

 

[BBR100]

btw, not saying it's not noteworthy, but the people who got all tragic about it like it was serious business and they were traumatized make me lol

srsly... some people felt it all the way up here in Montreal. One woman called the radio station all panicky, worried about aftershocks.

 

[sixxtoes]

the fact of where it happened is crazy!! the infrastructure is not set up for quakes like here in Cali, so even a little shake like this one could create major damage.

That being said, your best bet is to just buckle up and enjoy the ride!

 

[nimbus]

http://cdn.gs.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/earthquake08232011-neverforget.jpg

 

[digimon7068]

from a historical perspective, it was the biggest tremor on the eastern seaboard since 1944...jus' sayin'.