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All our Virginia, DC, Maryland friends OK? My birds felt it before we did, they went nuts in their cages!!

Recent earthquakes
earthquake.usgs.gov
Time       Magnitude       Location
21 minutes ago       5.9       Virginia

Felt it here slightly in Rochester

I didn't notice anything! I contacted Janet and she is ok!!!  :2thumbsup:

News said probably no casualties but could be MILLIONS in damage!  :o

I didn't feel anything...but when I went downstairs, Doc-bird was hanging on the front of his cage in apprehensive mode.  Had to tell him, "it's okay; it's okay."    Birds and other animals feel it before we do.

Yup.  It was actually fascinating.  I was behind some security gates that started rattling.  I thought someone was knocking on the gate.  Then I realized all 3 gates were rattling in synch.  Then I noticed I automatically took a "sea-legs" stance-that's when I realized the floor was moving. 

I've had the rattling dishes kind before, but I don't recall feeling a ground-shaker in New York before!

We were in Rochester at the time but online friends said they could feel it here-25 mi. west of Rochester.

They say after shocks still to come....probably won't feel them.

It was felt here in Boston.  Some of my co-workers felt it and a few pictures went askew, but I was oblivious.

colleen

I experienced it while having sushi in a Japanese restaurant.  It provided a wonderful, authentic ambience.

Paul

 :laugh:  Oh, Paul.  That just made me LOL!   :2thumbsup:  Thanks, I needed that!

Ambience!!  :o   (http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/sesshyluv1190/sushi_icon.jpg)   :rofl:

So!  I clearly spent way too much time on board Valhalla in hurricanes, as I didn't register what was going on - thought it was construction (thought the same thing when the plane bombed the Pentagon, too, but that is another story).  Anyway....

Mineral, VA between Richmond and Fredericksburg - about 70 miles from DC - Cape Henry Lighthouse is closed due to damage, and the National Cathedral in DC has also sustained damage. For that matter, all monuments on the National Mall are closed for assessment.

Cell service FAILED AGAIN – I know because I was standing with the Emergency Mgt Team – local radios worked but Cell Service was once again, over loaded. Failed on 9/11, failed today – landlines were working. What happened to the grant money to prevent this again?  Note that is Federal Grant money via YOUR income taxes - a bunch of us are smoking hot about this.

Traffic was a nightmare in DC! Pictures were cockeyed at home, some stuff fell in the garage, my wine cellar was safe! I was in another gal’s office felt movement, got stronger, and I went to the window! Then I ran to my office, grabbed my purse, locked my door, and evacuated. No injuries in Arlington, but the building that I park in was sent home – guess they are checking. Arlington is open for business tomorrow.

All told - it was pretty cool!  I'm more concerned about the hurricane overflowing the pool!  Thanks to Donna and MAK who got the AOK out, but text was supposed to work and it failed.

 :wave: Well thank God the wine is alright!  :laugh:

I was in the car driving.  Hurricane Irene will be much worse if she hits.  But then I was born and raised in CA.  Tornados, hurricanes, thunder and lightning, big rains are far more scary to me than an earthquake.

 :abs-cheers:

Mak--in Calif we have learned to stock boxed wines--very handy

Good thinkin'!  ;D

I was in the outside garden cashier booth at Home Depot, and neither felt, heard, nor saw anything.  People inside the store, however, said stuff moved a bit.  This is in the Eastern Panhandle of WV, about 50 miles NW of DC.  No damage here that I've heard of.  I feel deprived, having totally missed it where I was, at work.
Carol
WV

WOW, we felt more than you here in Jersey!!  :o That's just unreal!!!

I  tried using my cell a few minutes after the EQ, and also ran into "no service" problems.  That concerned me too.   I thought that problem was solved, but obviously it made me wonder "what if this was a real catastrophe?"    I think, especially now as we approach the tenth anniversary of September 11, we are all especially sensitive to things that could happen.   To not have service for a few calls on my cell today was alarming, and I hope that  it is looked in to!     Looking at the news tonight -- at the film of workers in towers in NYC and DC and vicinity -- my heart goes out to them.  The terror that must have  been overwhelming...I can't imagine.   Thank goodness that so far it appears to be minor damage and some flight delays.  May be always be so blessed.   
Next up...Hurricane Irene.    I hope our East Coast escapes this as well. 

So what is the address? WHere do we go in case of earthquake?  Tornado?  One did just touch down here in NY not far from where we all are -- and now Hurricane Irene may be hitting portions of our east coast. 

And the Locusts are arriving....when?   

Where is that wine and  what is your address? 

Donna, I was just watching the late news and a California expert explained that in CA, the quakes run along fault lines, but in the east, the quakes affect the entire  "plate"  and the whole plate rolls and quakes which can affect a larger area.   That explains why it was felt into Toronto, Detroit, and part of the midwest.  Plate tectonics are pretty interesting, but we are entirely different here in the east then in the west. 

A graphic was displayed on FNC last night depicting those plates and this was a great place for the earthquake, as a few miles elsewhere would have caused more damage.  However, this was like an amplifier, which is why it was felt to Georgia and north of Toronto - good rock for the sound waves.   I thought it was pretty cool!  

"...the older, denser continental crust [on the East Coast] is much more like a solid sheet of bedrock than the fault-filled crust on the West Coast, so seismic waves to travel farther... bedrock under central Virginia was assembled as continents collided to form a supercontinent about 500-300 million years ago, raising the Appalachian Mountains," the USGS says. 

My vintage wines are an investment, boxed wine isn't  ;)

Yes, the cell phone failure is a huge concern - wonder why I'm retiring in 595 days?

The cell phone outage is no surprise. They are way too many people constantly texting, tweeting, and surfing than need be on a normal day. It only gets worse when something unusual happens.

Interestingly, when a real disaster happens, the unnecessary phone activity decreases because casualties can't operate a cell phone.

It was to those of us involved re: 9/11!  Texting was supposed to work - big bucks were given to make it so - it failed.  Guess that money went to that black hole because when we went to use the phones - no signal!  First responders were back on local radios.  Ok, we have access to everyone on both sides of the Potomac, but that is because we bought the radios and made that investment (not an inexpensive one).  This was bad news!

The amount of wireless bandwidth used in 2001 is a tiny fraction of what it is today. Anyone system that was designed shortly after 9/11 to allow texting in an emergency would be woefully inadequate by now.