Holy Shaking House

[wildcard451 0]

Well, I know I am gonna owe beer, but I just felt my first earthquake. Seems to have been spread over a good portion of VA.......very strange.

[souleh 0]

So why open yourself up to beer-donation by telling us?

Don't get many earthquakes down here in Cornwall, UK.. though we had a minor one a few years ago - you know, broken roof tiles and the like.

Hope everything's still in one piece there

'buttplugs? where?' - geno

[Luv2Fall 0]

Yep - things were shaking over here also.

[wildcard451 0]

Ok, so far it has been felt from Harrisonburg to West point-ish...and south to Farmville....How big was this thing????

[Luv2Fall 0]

No idea........would be interesting to find out.

Hehehehe - I know my neighbors think I have lost my mind, but when I went outside, afterwards, there was a black helicopter flying over and I burst out laughing.......talking about timing.

[wildcard451 0]

Magnitude 4.5 - VIRGINIA
2003 December 9 20:59:14 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

A light earthquake occurred at 20:59:14 (UTC) on Tuesday, December 9, 2003. The magnitude 4.5 event has been located in VIRGINIA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)


Magnitude 4.5
Date-Time Tuesday, December 9, 2003 at 20:59:14 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time
Tuesday, December 9, 2003 at 3:59:14 PM = local time at epicenter

Location 37.607°N, 77.963°W

Depth 5 km (3 miles) set by location program

Region VIRGINIA

Distances:

24 km (15 miles) SE (133°) from Columbia, VA

30 km (19 miles) WSW (258°) from Short Pump, VA

33 km (20 miles) WSW (252°) from Wyndham, VA

45 km (28 miles) W (280°) from Richmond, VA

167 km (104 miles) SSW (210°) from Washington, DC

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 12.7 km (7.9 miles); depth fixed by location program

Parameters Nst= 12, Nph= 12, Dmin=84.2 km, Rmss=0.86 sec, Gp=166°,

M-type="Nuttli" surface wave magnitude (MLg), Version=6

Source U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Event ID uscdbf

[Luv2Fall 0]

Damn........thanks for the info, WildCard.

[Shark 0]

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Well, I know I am gonna owe beer, but I just felt my first earthquake. Seems to have been spread over a good portion of VA.......very strange.

Just send a case of Corona to us fruits N nuts in Cali.

[lawrocket 3]

A lousy freaking 4.5??? That's all????

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[wildcard451 0]

I know that's nothing for you California types....but this doesn't happen that often out here...

[Shark 0]

Hence, the beer fine.

[wlie 0]

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Magnitude 4.5 - VIRGINIA

Sure that wasn't an orgasm?

Just kiddin' man

My other ride is the relative wind.

[Amazon 7]

Que up the song......Its the End of the World as we know it.....

[Luna 0]

Well, I was sitting in my car at a light in Hampton and it felt like the wind was shaking my car, but there was no wind. Kinda freaked me out, then my husband called from work in Richmond and told me it was an earthquake. I heard they felt it all the way down to NC and up to Norva. Pretty freakin' wild!

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[JadedLady 0]

Eek... Not a big fan of natural disasters. Fortunately, we Ohioans don't have to worry too much about earthquakes. It's the tornados that give me the heebie-jeebies.

~~~~
Rachel
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-Converting the world one whuffo at a time.

[Amazon 7]

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Fortunately, we Ohioans don't have to worry too much about earthquakes

Well ACTUALLY the Mississippi River and several of its tributaries including the Ohio River Valley are where they are because of a failed rift zone Dating to the breakup of the supercontinent a couple hundred million years ago. BUT.. it still active. Look up some information on the largest earthquake on the North American Continent since all you Europeans showed up.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/prepare/factsheets/NewMadrid/

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Although earthquakes in the central and eastern United States are less frequent than in the western United States, they affect much larger areas. This is shown by two areas affected by earthquakes of similar magnitude-the 1895 Charleston, Missouri, earthquake in the New Madrid seismic zone and the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake. Red indicates minor to major damage to buildings and their contents. Yellow indicates shaking felt, but little or no damage to objects, such as dishes.

[dropoutdave 0]

If I felt an earthquake i'd want to be bought beer!!

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