Virginia Earthquake: ~5.8

[Sgt.McRuff]

I hope everyone is alright through this. earthquakes aren't the most fun things to go through if you're close to the epicenter

In other news, couch surfers near earthquake have massive wipeout.

O man, earthquake was awesome, was in basement of a 5 floor building realized it was an earthquake right away. Went to door frame was enjoying the experience, decided to do like hanging half pull up using door frame to feel what its like hanging in an earthquake. My hands slipped fell off skinny door frame and fell my ass.

I walked rather than screw around with the subway. Got out of work early though

Lucky, I was hoping to get out early as building I'm in is 80 years old, really wanted to get home to play some dues ex HR.

[D749]

I've never experience an earthquake before today. Where was I during this wonderful experience? In a moving elevator.

[InCredible]

Though you are looking at far different levels of preparedness. I remember a "cold snap" in Miami, FL when temperatures reached the low 40s. Not even freezing yet. It was hilarious to see the reactions.

i dont see that happening, i live in tampa, fl and we have been in the 20s the last few years..now the funny reactions is seeing the northerners come down for the mild winters we have and being bundled up as much or worse then most of us because of the different type of cold we get with our high humidity

[crash5s]

O man, earthquake was awesome, was in basement of a 5 floor building realized it was an earthquake right away. Went to door frame was enjoying the experience, decided to do like hanging half pull up using door frame to feel what its like hanging in an earthquake. My hands slipped fell off skinny door frame and fell my ass.


Lucky, I was hoping to get out early as building I'm in is 80 years old, really wanted to get home to play some dues ex HR.

Yeah our office director/head guy wanted us to all go home for liability issues. I work in Farragut off K, I live in Rossyln right behind channel 7, said it and left. Traffic was nuts though!

[Kingcarcas]

That's like a nice little morning love tap

[Sparky]

I didn't feel anything but I was also on the interstate at the time driving through downtown. Others around here said they felt some trembling and shelves shook a little bit.

[breakfromyou]

My old house definitely didn't like it. Luckily nothing broke that I know of. The crack in the wall of my living room grew a little bit, and pictures fell all throughout the house. It was pretty neat. I heard the noise and was like "wtf is that?" then the entire house started shaking pretty nicely. I moved to the corner of the house (where the house is semi-stable) in case the one support for the floor would poke through or break.

Went outside and saw all my neighbors standing outside talking to each other in spanish. Said eff this then went back inside :|

This house was built in the 30's, and was pretty half-assed. It isn't very sturdy or stable at all. Should probably be condemned for being an unsafe structure, unsuitable to live in. If we get a 6.0, this house is definitely done for. But I don't think this house will be around another 100 years, so that isn't anything to worry about.

[Dave_Sz]

I hope everyone is alright through this.

From a 5.8? I'm sure they survived...

[crash5s]

From a 5.8? I'm sure they survived...

Yeah, close to the center good bit of property damage (Cathedral took a beating) and traffic chaos, not much else. The flooding and the sinkholes that storms and a water main break caused were worse in the last two weeks in terms of destruction and redcross evacuations, for DC/Arlington at least.

For those that don't live here though, the last time something like that was felt was the blast on 9/11 for some areas, hence the panic, people thought we were attacked again in some areas. Plus, DC only has 4 bridges into VA and some of the worst traffic in the nation, so things get ugly quick. To top it off some of the residential areas are still from the 1800's and could have problems easily. It's built to withstand floods and water issues, not this.

EDIT- also it was upgraded to a 6.0 for some areas...

[breakfromyou]

In what areas was it upgraded to a 6.0? USGS still says it's a 5.8. There was also another 4.2 2 miles away from the 5.8 earlier today, at around 8pm.

[TheCarLessDriven]

This is not good news. Could mean more movement on all those dormant fault lines near New York City.

[PatRaceTin]

hhmmmm any lost ?

[crash5s]

This is not good news. Could mean more movement on all those dormant fault lines near New York City.

East is due for one every 100 years just like the west, it's not unheard of, we just don't get the normal . USA as a whole is built on fault line, tornado alley, hurricane central, and the worlds largest super valcano that is going to blast us all to bits. It's a death trap, just a long term one... if the bible lovers and conservatives don't kill us first.

[M.Beier]

Glad to hear everyone is fine, and it is considered a tiny one... From the desciption you guys deliver, I must say, it sounds as the situation when playing a bit loud music at home, bass shaking the floor, things shaking a bit... Nothing to worry too much about^^

[Sparky]

East is due for one every 100 years just like the west, it's not unheard of, we just don't get the normal . USA as a whole is built on fault line, tornado alley, hurricane central, and the worlds largest super valcano that is going to blast us all to bits. It's a death trap, just a long term one... if the bible lovers and conservatives don't kill us first.

I recommend keeping any and all political crap to yourself.

That is all.

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

My friend lives in Fredricksburg, about 20 miles from the epicenter. He said he was "all shook up," but his room was a real mess from it.

I'm just glad the nuclear plant, so far, has no issues.

[tekjunkie]

Here in Baltimore, MD we did feel it. Now that I think of it, it was actually funny when our office building swayed the first time, every body was like "WTH!! Did anybody else feel that" and then when it happened again, they were like "It's an earthquake, let's get the heck out of the building". But, 5.8 is nothing to scoff @, especially on the eastern sea board where earthquakes are not expected.

[zanzabar]

omg we had 2 at my house just now with one being a 2.5-4 or right on my house (or so i think, no USGS yut). every1 panic.

edit- 3.9 and ~5 miles off

[dctokyo]

5.8 here in Japan =
there have been 408 aftershocks with a magnitude of 5.0 and above, 68 registering 6.0 and higher and five at the 7.0 level or higher, according to the Meteorological Agency, which does not count aftershocks smaller than those with a magnitude of 5.0. That count was up to the 1st of April, had a 6.8 just last week near Tokyo

Here is a good link to show you how many we have per-day here in Japan
http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/

[crazydiamond]

they were felt even in milwaukee

[saaya]

first test run of al quaidas seismic blaster?

[Manicdan]

first test run of al quaidas seismic blaster?

considering every government building on the east cost was evacuated (even those up in boston)
the current conspiracy theory is that terrorists were tunneling to the capital and their tunnel collapsed

[breakfromyou]

I just don't get how anybody could think it was a terrorist attack. I've never been in an earthquake before, but when you hear a loud, low pitched rumble outside and you're being rocked back and forth for 30 seconds, it's obvious what's going on. When it first started here, I was just making a huge WTF face, only because we don't get earthquakes and it was knocking stuff over in the house--stronger than I expected.

[eXa]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/ridic...-coast-earthqu

This is hillarious!

[Kingcarcas]

^ lol, so on this show called Wonder of the Universe (awesome show BTW!!) the guy said that this window for us to to be alive on this planet only opens once every 10,000 billion billion billion billion or so years, the Earth itself is a death trap