Virginia Earthquake: ~5.8

[Janus67]

Oh and a graph comparing the energy/power of the big quake in Japan vs the one on the East coast:

http://i.imgur.com/xcQrx.jpg

img linked instead of full posting it as it is pretty big.

[hawkeyefan]

[RPGWiZaRD]

Yea I saw the original source for that joke, it was pretty hilarious, should have continued with a "WE'LL JUST REBUILD" and chair stands again!

Here were I live we're so lucky when it comes to natural disasters cuz there's NONE. No hurricanes, no earthquakes, no tsunamis or flooding, no landslides (it's virtually flat as flat can be here). Does thunderstorm lightning strikes count? Oh wait a sec, I forgot we barely have any thunderstorms in this town either, only had ONE weak and short thunderstorm this summer, it's like the clouds are always turning away from this town passing on either sides only like 10-20 kilometers away or so but never here (I'd love watching them :s).

[Computurd]

where at in Finland? sounds like paradise!

[sin0822]

Yea I saw the original source for that joke, it was pretty hilarious, should have continued with a "WE'LL JUST REBUILD" and chair stands again!

Here were I live we're so lucky when it comes to natural disasters cuz there's NONE. No hurricanes, no earthquakes, no tsunamis or flooding, no landslides (it's virtually flat as flat can be here). Does thunderstorm lightning strikes count? Oh wait a sec, I forgot we barely have any thunderstorms in this town either, only had ONE weak and short thunderstorm this summer, it's like the clouds are always turning away from this town passing on either sides only like 10-20 kilometers away or so but never here (I'd love watching them :s).

I am not saying ppl freaked out, the ones i know didn't. This is why this makes such big news:
Our houses, our buildings, our schools, our infrastructure, none of them are designed for earthquakes. our nuclear reactor was only designed to handle a 6.0 magnitude quake, and it did around that area schools had structural dmage, as did other places. in DC one school is still closed because of the damage. If anything good comes from this which it has, it means condemned houses all along the east coast are now gone for good loll.

Most of the people have never been around to see and earthquake.

In Finland if you had an earthquake, how would you react?

[breakfromyou]

So far this year, some place on the east coast of the US has been affected by flooding, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrible thunderstorms (every couple of weeks :|), and soon, a hurricane.

Does California ever get Tornadoes or hurricanes? Seems like all they get are great temperatures and frequent groundshakes. Maybe a humid day every once in a while? lol

All the quake did here was shake things around making them fall (pictures) and make cracks in my plaster walls even bigger. The ceiling is sagging in my bedroom now If it was a little stronger, i'm sure this house wouldn't have survived. Built half-assed in the 1930's, probably should be torn down. I wouldn't be surprised if this house is lowering the property values here :p Maybe it's the nice front porch?

Any idea why the quake affected the DC area so badly, compared to areas south or even west of the epicenter? I know the mountains have to have something to do with it, but we were pretty shaken up here. I almost ended up with a big CRT TV (from the 80's) on my feet during it.

[sin0822]

yea we get a ty storm today before the hurricane, someone really loves us. Appetizer and dinner. , and for the first time in almost 50 years, Virginia beach and ocean city have been evacuated, you'd think they were expecting another katrina. its only a category 3 tho, should be cat 2 or 1 by time it hits us.

[breakfromyou]

I remember when I was 12 or so (12-13 years ago?), there was a hurricane going through--just the high wind part mainly. Hardly any rain. I went out on my bicycle and had a gust of wind make me do a wheelie, falling on my arse. Bad idea haha. Where at in NoVa are you sin0822?

[sin0822]

mclean

[WangChung]

It's funny that people think all these routine weather and geophysical events has some biblical significance. Only Americans would be self centered enough to think their own country is the only possible location of the second coming. Yeah, the earth shook. We exist on a living organism, an ecosystem constantly in motion for billions of years.

It's going to be crazy when standard, run of the mill planetary events start picking up again. Magnetic polar shift will make everyone flip but really it won't be that big of a deal.

[sin0822]

i find that really hilarious as well, i think its just ridiculous, but then again i don't really buy into any of that, nor much of anything to be honest. I believe what i see.

breakfromyou Where do you live?

[breakfromyou]

Annandale In a bit of a crabby mood. I was up until 5am waiting for my neighbors to turn their damn music down.

[Sparky]

Annandale In a bit of a crabby mood. I was up until 5am waiting for my neighbors to turn their damn music down.

Unplug their power meter from the side of their house

[STaRGaZeR]

Oh and a graph comparing the energy/power of the big quake in Japan vs the one on the East coast:

http://i.imgur.com/xcQrx.jpg

img linked instead of full posting it as it is pretty big.

I lol'd

[sin0822]

I hate how all the news stations made a big deal about this stupid hurricane, it did nothing. Its a joke too because I don't have power at my house.

[BoredByLife]

5.8 is nothing. Why the hassle?

[Hondacity]

news are sensationalized.

[BoredByLife]

Happens when 70% of the populace is slightly more intelligent then a bavoon and all they care about is money and power. Sometimes forget that.

[lkiller123]

We Californians eat 5.8s for breakfast...

[breakfromyou]

NONE of the structures here are built to handle earthquakes PERIOD. My 80 year old house didn't even take that "weak" 5.8 well at all. If there was ever even a time of California not having earthquakes around 5.8, imagine what it'd do to some hundred year old structures that were built poorly to begin with. That's why it's a big deal here.

Plaster doesn't bend (my walls), so the house get shaken about and cracks show up in the walls all over the house.

Agreed with the hurricane. It was pretty weak. Got fun around 2-3am, when the nice wind gusts came through knocking tree limbs down all over the place (and my power). My next door neighbors started their generator up at 3am, and omfg is it loud. Two nights in a row the same house of 12-15 people have kept me up because of the excessive noise they make. I have got to get out of this area.

[halofanman]

Does California ever get Tornadoes or hurricanes? Seems like all they get are great temperatures and frequent groundshakes. Maybe a humid day every once in a while? lol

never witnessed a hurricane or tornado in my lifetime, but 6.0 - 7.0 quakes happen on almost a yearly basis, I've had many times where I've woken up during a quake running for the door thinking the house was going to collapse LOL

[Sparky]

never witnessed a hurricane or tornado in my lifetime, but 6.0 - 7.0 quakes happen on almost a yearly basis, I've had many times where I've woken up during a quake running for the door thinking the house was going to collapse LOL

I guess your location in your profile is fitting then

[breakfromyou]

Yeah. We already deal with crazy enough weather. Definitely don't want the earth trying to wipe us out in yet another way. Constantly terrible humidity, tornadoes, hurricanes, some pretty wicked thunderstorms (I guess that might be related to the humidity?), and some pretty awesome snow storms (blizzards?). We've gotten all of the above in the last year, and now that an earthquake as been added to the list of things we have experienced here...i'm not sure what else to say :P

[sin0822]

breakfromyou, i guess we get everything now but tornados lol.

[halofanman]

I guess your location in your profile is fitting then

at least with a hurricane or tornado you are prepared and there are warning signs, you can go in a bunker, or flee town if its going to be a bad one, but earthquakes just randomly happen...