There was a 2.0 earthquake not far from here yesterday...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

near Springfield, VA. http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/last_event_states/states_virginia.html
I wasn't far away when it occurred, as my kid takes piano lessons nearby. We didn't notice it, though.

[TK421]

1. Oh, that wasn't an earthquake...Rush Limbaugh was in that area yesterday

no worries! :toast:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. Ah...He must have farted again.

[tigereye]

3. aha

it was the sound of his giant ego crashing to the ground...


weird, a lot of earthquakes where they aren't usually occurring, right?


:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. Very odd...

A little disconcerting, too, since plate tectonics is still a pretty new science.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. We get two or three of those every week

2.0? Truck went by.

:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. They're different around here...

They're so infrequent that it's a real event when one occurs. And they're often felt over a much broader region than the ones in your neck of the woods.

[TZ]

6. yeah I posted about it last night

Stuntcat who lives in the Arlington area I think, felt it...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. I'd be interested in reading the thread...

Unfortunately I can't find jack$#!+ since we were at level 4 last night.

I'll check back later when I have time to hunt for it. :hi:

[TZ]

10. Here ya go..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7714646

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. Thanks!

[lost-in-nj]

8. If you look at the earthquake website

there are an awful lot of them lately
it's getting kinda creepy

we and NYC are on a HUGH fault...


can't wait...

we have had one here

not bad, just needed to straighten pictures


:hi:


stay safe


lost

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. I remember that one!

I doubt we'll have anything to worry about. But it looks like the epicenter was right under an exit ramp of the Beltway. I hope somebody has the sense to send someone out to inspect the overpass...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. My dear GoddessOfGuinness!

You'd have to be sitting right on top of it to feel one of those...

And little quakes are normally good...

The pressure in the fault zone is getting released when those little ones happen...

:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. Mr GoG seems to be "tuned into" seismic activity...

He says he felt something yesterday and wondered. He's felt light ones that have occurred 25 miles away.

Apparently the bedrock around here is quite different from that in CA, and the infrequent light earthquakes we get are felt farther away than one might expect.

[CatholicEdHead]

14. No earthquakes around here for the past 6 months +

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. Have you felt them in MN?

That's not exactly quake country either...

[CreekDog]

15. that's a truck going by

not an actual earthquake. my goodness. to feel a 3 you have to practically be on top of it.

[TZ]

18. A lot of people in Va were practically on top of it

The epicenter was in a VERY heavy population center. It was also apparantly very shallow.

[stuntcat]

23. I swear

.. I think I was :scared:
I understand everyone acting tough and know-it-ally (this IS the internet) but it was definitely something me and my neighbors felt.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. Here's what the USGS site says about earthquakes in the east...

Earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S., although less frequent than in the western U.S., are typically felt over a much broader region. East of the Rockies, an earthquake can be felt over an area as much as ten times larger than a similar magnitude earthquake on the west coast. A magnitude 4.0 eastern U.S. earthquake typically can be felt at many places as far as 100 km (60 mi) from where it occurred, and it infrequently causes damage near its source. A magnitude 5.5 eastern U.S. earthquake usually can be felt as far as 500 km (300 mi) from where it occurred, and sometimes causes damage as far away as 40 km (25 mi).

[tigereye]

21. I still remember the only one I have felt about 20 plus years ago

we were in a movie theater here, and we just felt this rumble - it was so strange. I think the actual quake was somewhere in Ohio.

[kwassa]

20. I went through the 6.7 Northridge quake. I noticed that one.

It is really hard to feel anything below a 4, unless things around you are very, very still. I've been through lots in the mid 5s, pretty common in LA.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. Depends on the bedrock in the location...

in 1886, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake made a disaster of Charleston, SC. It was felt as far away as Boston, MA (over 900 miles away), Milwaukee, WI (over 1,000 miles away), and Bermuda. Major damage occurred over 60 miles away, and structural damage was reported several hundred miles from the epicenter.

An east coast earthquake is a different animal.

Oh yeah...seismologists predict another Charleston earthquake of at least a magnitude 5.0 this century. Not too cool for a city built on sand. :(

[kwassa]

26. Aside from sandy soil, one major failure area was landfill developments

Both in the quakes around San Francisco and Los Angeles, buildings built on landfill collapsed. We just can't fill it firm enough.

7.3 is a huge quake, bigger than the Kobe quake. I'm not surprised that it devastated Charleston.

[stuntcat]

22. Arlington!

We felt it at Bailey's Crossroads, everything rumbled for at least 5 seconds.
A few of my neighbors came out in the street looking around wondering.
I'd never felt one so I didn't know what happened til it was on the news. Then they mentioned it on WAMU a few times with the news updates in the afternoon.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. I saw your post in the other thread...

...the one where you mentioned your confusion.

I'd be interested in knowing if this is a typical human response to earthquakes, or if it's peculiar to those who do not experience them often. I imagine west coasters barely blink at the mild ones, but may find themselves dazed by the stronger ones...even those that only knock things off the shelves.