East coast earthquake.
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I felt it here in Schenectady. I was working the register soaking poor college students for their life savings when I felt it. I thought I was finally having that stroke I've always dreamed about. A wall full of thumb drives doing the shimmy is quite the spectacle.
THE HOUSE IS SLIGHTLY ASKEW! TO THE PANIC ROOM!
The building codes on the East Coast also aren't as earthquake-safe as the ones on the West Coast, so evacuating is a reasonable precaution.
I live in Grottoes,VA which located in the Shenandoah Valley. The epicenter was about 80 miles across the Blue Ridge Mountains from me. My house shook and my wife and I thought a large dump truck was going by because they also shake our windows. There was no damage to our home nor any of our friends' homes.
Hopefully this is all stuff that can be easily fixed.Apparently, there are cracks in the Washington Monument. And there was considerable damage to the National Cathedral.Mostly the spires, but there may be some damage to the structure, too.
20 buildings in my town had damage.
I love that there's an earthquake on the East Coast and the first thing half you neckbeards can say is "fuck Californians!" like we caused the damn thing. We should be sympatico now with our shared common experiences.
Anyway, I'm glad everyone is okay and hopefully the damage to the monuments and other buildings can be fixed relatively easily.
Anyway, I'm glad everyone is okay and hopefully the damage to the monuments and other buildings can be fixed relatively easily.
The lights on the Capitol dome weren't on tonight. Haven't ever seen that before.
Also, when I got home...this is the utter devastation I encountered:
I like how, right in the middle, it says "Keep calm."
The extent of the damage was similar for me as well.
I'm originally from Hawthorne, so must be close to where your at.
They are doing construction right next to our house, putting up a new house. I work from home as a video editor. When I felt the shaking, I thought they hit our house with their tractor. I jumped out of my chair and ran outside to see what damage they did to our house. I found the construction crew standing around looking all kinds of frazzled. They are in the framing aspect of the house and that must have been freaky. No real damage here but my garage door is kind of wonky. It use to be totally silent before the earthquake, but now it makes a scraping sound and is loud. Gonna have to get this looked at.
They are doing construction right next to our house, putting up a new house. I work from home as a video editor. When I felt the shaking, I thought they hit our house with their tractor. I jumped out of my chair and ran outside to see what damage they did to our house. I found the construction crew standing around looking all kinds of frazzled. They are in the framing aspect of the house and that must have been freaky. No real damage here but my garage door is kind of wonky. It use to be totally silent before the earthquake, but now it makes a scraping sound and is loud. Gonna have to get this looked at.
We say "fuck Californians!" because pretty much every Californian is making fun of us for thinking that the biggest earthquake in 100 years is sort of a big deal.
If I could impart one piece of advice to our new earthquake brethren, it would be not to keep a bookshelf near your bed. Hardbacks hurt when they come flying off the shelves and pelt your body.
Must be transplanted Californians back East, because everyone out here I've talked to thought it was a fairly big deal. My sister said the half of the family out West has been talking to the half of the family back East on the Facebook and sharing earthquake stories (not me, though, because I don't use it since I'm old and cantankerous and call it "the Facebook").
Sorry, but ...
I guess I've lived in California all my life to think something like that is so insignificant.
Now, now. A 5.9 is nothing to sneeze at. Still, a good jolt, but for me, hardly a panic-inducing event. Now Northridge, now there was a quake.
Sorry, but ...
I guess I've lived in California all my life to think something like that is so insignificant.
5.8-6.0 is not insignificant even by CA standards. That's on par with the strongest one I experienced living in the Bay Area for 10 years--it shook my apartment noticeably and moved a few photo frames on the wall a bit.
The insignificant ones are the ones that feel like a truck rumbling on the street in front of your house, which this one definitely eclipses.
My apologies if I seemed insensitive. I lived through the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, and after having witnessed these huge earthquakes in other parts of the world, I just thought this recent one was minor.
EDIT:
Now it just so happened that while I lay in bed last night, there was a minor jolt that rocked my room. I had nothing to do with it, by the way.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/inalameda/detail?entry_id=96031
There was another one just a couple of minutes ago. Mother Nature is really punishing us West Coasters. 