Who felt the earthquake in DC?

damn dude thats bad, where was that?

 

vienna/toyson's corner, about 20 miles from DC

 

oh okay...thats pretty bad. i havent seen my house but my parents said it was nothing that bad...atleast i hope. ill tell them to check the basement for problems...

 

where are you located?

i got nervous when i got a text reading, "you should see your room". from the pictures i was sent it looked like only some stuff had fallen from shelves though (luckily)

 

during the earthquake i was at school harrisonburg and still felt it for like 30 seconds...it felt like a really big train was passing by then got stronger. my parents house is in stafford though and luckily only like a sign i had hanging up fell i dont think anything else did though from what they told me

 

Was at a buddies garage when the car on the lift there started to shake we knew the shit was cereal.

 

I like how deep this thread is getting.

 

Aint gonna lie, this shit had be bustin up.

On a side note, are all brick buildings built like that? Just the studs with a brick layer outside?

 

I was asleep, so I missed it.

 

That's pretty cool, great to see another geologist on here. Most of the guys I work with are stratigraphers, so having surficial experience isn't a bad thing at all.

It is very unlikely that anything that happens in Virginia woudl trigger something in CA. California, being right on the boundary of the Pacific, North American, and Juan de Fuca tectonic plates, would be much more affects by things that occur on the other edges of those plates, which would be Japan, China, ring of fire places. Virginia is pretty much in the middle of the North American plate. The boundary is halfway between the east coast and Europe.


I was reading online yesterday that it's very typical for earthquakes on the east coast to be felt over a much broader region than on the west coast. They did not give a reason why, but I would imagine it has to do with the type of rock on the east coast being more efficient at transmitting energy through it, therefore the energy travels further from the source. I'm not positive though....

 

you STOLE that from me!!!!!

 

I didnt feel it i was driving down the road

 

ahahahaha thats funny. most people probably werent affected other than a broken picture frame haha but there were some people that actually had serious damage to there homes

 

When rebuilt, that chair must be retrofitted to current seismic code

 

I live less than 30 miles from Mineral Va, it was kind of freaky but no damge around my house.... a few gas leakes in downtown.

 

I didn't feel shit. I'm in Texas. It's hot and dry here.

 

I just spit my drink all over my iPad when I saw that...

 

That is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time! That's great!

 

Not to thread jack but any east coasters here about the mediocre central CA quake we had this morning? I didnt feel it but wondering what this means in terms of upcoming events.

Saw an article about the ring of fire and how if it keeps going clockwise people here on the west coast should expect something bad. Wonder what this quake means for us. Hopefully it decided to skip us and it'll keep going around the ring

 

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