5.9 Magnitude Earthquake on the East Coast

usalsfyre said:
Yeah, but y'all thought a freeway closing was equivalent to one of the horsemen opening up a seal.
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At the closure's worse possibility, I'd rather take the horseman opening up the seal.
 
usalsfyre said:
Yeah, but y'all thought a freeway closing was equivalent to one of the horsemen opening up a seal.
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Roflol.

We don't have insurance for this, and we lost our internal chimney. Plenty of cracks in the mortar and the plaster.

Good thing I got a job this year, cause ill be passing my income to the contractor. This is not a joke.
 
No, we don't have any set plans or guidelines on something as specific as an earthquake. The closest thing we have to that is our MCI protocols/guidelines. We had alot of calls within the first 30 minutes/ hour after the quake. Structure fire, building collapse, multiple inside gas leaks. The EMS calls were mostly just to respond to the fire calls( structure fire, building collapse, etc.) with your occasional chest pain, difficulty breathing, what not. The medical EMS calls might have been associated with the earthquake, might not.(people panicking.) My station, (which is about 3 miles from my house) is located about 40 miles away from the epicenter. We go shook pretty good, I was actually asleep in my house(which ironically is located about 100 ft from active train tracks) and I thought the train was derailing across from my house. Found out it was an earthquake, and immediately responded to my station for backup. No major damage here, just some gas leaks and a few cracks.
 
Jaded

Lived in CA 20 years, earthquakes a-plenty. Now, on an island where each year we get tsunami "encounters". My sister-in-law wrote to let me know they were all safe. 5.9? Didn't even twitch. So, in the spirit of fun (not forgetting abckidsmom who almost thought she'd have some expendable income and now finds it's still a dream) here's THIS
 
Oh wow, that pic! haha. I live on Cape Cod and I didn't feel a thing. I was @ work and a pregnant co-worker of mine said she thought she was just trembling. The ONLY reason I knew what happened was b/c I hopped onto FB and saw ALL of my Ohio & also DC/VA area friends posted about it! lol. Apparently mr pres felt it on MV though...

kate
 
Im in VA/DC, people are overreacting quite a bit, but thats to be expected in a place that doesnt get earthquakes. Lots of calls for gas leaks and anxiety attacks. No major issues though.
 
To put things into perspective. The Japan earthquake had roughly 1000 times the energy.
 
now its all Hurricane Irene worries...i work @ a reservation office for 7 resorts and its crazy!!
 
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This is a perfect example of a very human characteristic of, "If it don't happen to me it ain't real!"

I certainly fell into the trap.

But you know what? For abckidsmom, one of us, this is real as it gets...the repurcussions of this quake, no matter how small, WILL reverberate through her life for a while.

I see where my cavalier attitude doesn't serve. Hope all goes better for you and yours, Dana!
 
Yes i know it's 10x less but...

Has anyone felt aftershocks or are these continuing quakes? Damage from them? Just in checking the weather (WunderGround), it shows earthquakes, and it seems that just this morning there was a 4.5m quake

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And this wasn't the only one. I haven't felt anything since, being about 100 miles away.
 
mikie said:
Has anyone felt aftershocks or are these continuing quakes? Damage from them? Just in checking the weather (WunderGround), it shows earthquakes, and it seems that just this morning there was a 4.5m quake

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And this wasn't the only one. I haven't felt anything since, being about 100 miles away.
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There were about 4 low level rumbles in the hour before that 4.5 one. Then 3 more overnight. One since I've been up this morning.

California people...does it say anything concerning when the measured aftershocks are increasing in magnitude?
 
abckidsmom said:
There were about 4 low level rumbles in the hour before that 4.5 one. Then 3 more overnight. One since I've been up this morning.

California people...does it say anything concerning when the measured aftershocks are increasing in magnitude?
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There is always a chances that first earthquake was preshock to the bigger one. I haven't read the links so not sure what is being reported.
 
abckidsmom said:
There were about 4 low level rumbles in the hour before that 4.5 one. Then 3 more overnight. One since I've been up this morning.

California people...does it say anything concerning when the measured aftershocks are increasing in magnitude?
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It really doesn't say anything. As far as we know they could be separate earthquakes
 
It'd be nice to be able to predict...

...but we can't.

Massive pressure of one plate against another, suddenly "snapping" causes the quake but what that does is set neighboring plates and fissures out of whack and increasing pressures and releases all around the primary area. Usually, you get the "Big Slip" and what happens next we call "aftershocks" though they are not necessarily limited to the primary area.

An example could be the Chile earthquake in 2009 and then, one year later, WAY around the other end of the plate, the Japanese one. Some scientists are speaking of that as a sort of rebound effect.

Suffice it to say no one knows anything and only Superman would be invulnerable if it weren't for that damn Kyrptonite!
 
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