Earthquake, did anyone feel it?

[Carol P.]

 

Well thank God the wine is alright! 

[chlosmom]

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

[MAK]

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

Good thinkin'! 

[Tokira]

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

[Donna]

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!!  That's just unreal!!!

[margaret]

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. 

[margaret]

Well thank God the wine is alright! 

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? 

[margaret]

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!!  That's just unreal!!!

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. 

[valhalla]

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?

[Shaky]

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.

[valhalla]

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!

[Shaky]

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.