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« on: August 23, 2011, 02:13:36 PM » |
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Just as I was hitting the "post" button in another thread the proverbial szht hit the fan!! A magnatude 5.8 rocked the east coast! ! Our whole building was shakin pretty good. Everyone in here went outside for safety. They say we have had several here in the past, but this is the first one I have actually took notice of. It was pretty eerie! I just looked at it as a good excuse to go out and catch a smoke  That's right, folks, you heard it here first on AmFone! ! ! ! |
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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2011, 02:15:33 PM » |
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Yep, felt here in NJ. Was sitting at my desk when it started rocking. Rocking...pause, then more rocking.
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« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2011, 02:24:20 PM » |
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Now upgraded to 6.0 centered between Richmond and Charlottesville. Big time shaking here in Columbia, MD. Time to fire up those emergency nets!
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« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2011, 02:33:29 PM » |
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Wife just told me two boxes of oatmeal fell over. |
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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2011, 02:33:38 PM » |
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Frank--did you say catch a smoke???
It'll stunt your growth.
When my 82 year old mother in law was expiring from lung cancer she wanted me to unhook all of the plumbing and run her outside for a smoke.
No shakes in the midwest--maybe tonite when we fire up on 3885.
Glad you are kicking......and puffing?
Really???
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« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2011, 02:34:44 PM » |
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It was felt in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio but not here in Lorain.
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« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2011, 02:41:41 PM » |
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We were shaking pretty good near BDL I thought it was the shaker table on the first floor but it didn't stop. They just let us back in the building.
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« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2011, 02:49:47 PM » |
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Frank--did you say catch a smoke???
It'll stunt your growth.
When my 82 year old mother in law was expiring from lung cancer she wanted me to unhook all of the plumbing and run her outside for a smoke.
No shakes in the midwest--maybe tonite when we fire up on 3885.
Glad you are kicking......and puffing?
Really???
I cant (and don't) drink. The liver cirrhosis will probably get me before that does, so what the hey, ya gotta have some type of vice And besides, a coffee without a cigarette is like....................... |
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« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2011, 02:58:28 PM » |
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A very unusual phenomenon for youse' guys location!  The shakin', that is. 73DG |
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« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2011, 03:14:21 PM » |
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Just called the family back home in MD and they hardly felt it. My wife was at Safeway and didn't know it happened until she saw a gaggle of women chattering about it.
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« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2011, 03:29:27 PM » |
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My family was in a mall 10 miles away buying school supplies and felt nothing.
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« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2011, 03:44:32 PM » |
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I felt swaying here on Long Island at approx 1:52 PM and thought that it felt like a possible quake. News later confirmed that that was what it was. I'm surprised it occurred so far away and felt here and even further north.
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« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2011, 04:00:52 PM » |
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We really felt it up in E. PA. Martha called from work which is about 15M East of here and they evacuated some buildings in West Chester. The only damage here is my "Getto" XTAL for 3.880 cracked Joe, W3GMS |
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« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2011, 04:04:32 PM » |
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The only damage here is my "Getto" XTAL for 3.880 cracked No biggie, now you have TWO for 40m... 73DG |
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« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2011, 04:06:39 PM » |
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It was business as usual in the shipyard here in Groton. The ground is always shaking and rumbling. The workers could've dropped a sub and nobody would've noticed.
Came home and noticed a couple of wall hangings slightly crooked but they could've been crooked before the shake.
Checking the foundation.
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« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2011, 04:37:01 PM » |
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Didn't feel a thing here. I work in the basement of a large building, so maybe I'm glad I didn't.
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« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2011, 04:40:07 PM » |
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I was driving home from work at the time and did not feel or hear anything here in CT . Tough to hear anything over the cat only (broken) exhaust on the old 94 Escort! I first heard about it from some folks talking about it at the town dump at about 2:15. Then got calls from guys at work saying that no one was answering their government office phones down in the DC area - apparently they evacuated a lot of buildings down there. Put on WCBS 880 AM where they were in big breaking news mode.
Diane said she was here at home and felt a slight rumble - and that the cat jumped up like it had seen a ghost - she didn't make the connection to an earthquake until I told her about what time it happened.
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« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2011, 04:51:43 PM » |
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Finally got a hold of the ball and chain after 1 1/2 hours of dealing with jammed up 23 cm CB. A lot of plates and dishes busted up, and a cracked window in the living room.
The reason quakes on th east coast are felt further than on the west coast is the bedrock is more solid and not as fractured from many previous fault lines.
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« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2011, 04:52:49 PM » |
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Mother Nature must be busy today.. We had a 5.3 quake last night at 11:45 PM, centered in southern Colorado, the biggest quake in the state since 1967. There were three distinct quakes in quick succession. ""Here we go again, there's another one starting. We got to get out of here," said Garry Ringo, owner of Ringo's Super Trading Post in the small town of Segundo, Colo., as bottles on shelves rattled in the background during an interview with The Associated Press." Ringo estimated he lost thousands of dollars' worth of liquor and soda. All of those bottles of JD smashed on the floor.  Gonna be interesting when the New Madrid fault trips and moves the Mississippi river again.. |
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« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2011, 05:08:53 PM » |
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felt it up here in CT, pretty much everyone in the office did, the building was shaking
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« Reply #20 on: August 23, 2011, 05:18:09 PM » |
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What earthquake  Did not feel a thing here in Albany, NY. |
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« Reply #21 on: August 23, 2011, 05:44:46 PM » |
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My son in Lee, MA said if felt more like a large truck passing by with loud rumble and little to no shake.
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« Reply #22 on: August 23, 2011, 06:16:21 PM » |
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i didn't know anything about it till one of the teachers in the school I go to was talking about feeling it. funny thing is, the one who was talking about it was the one whose room I was in when it happened and i didn't even feel it or know about it until about 20 minutes later. the teacher even said that at first he didn't even think it was an earthquake, he thought it was the teacher in the room above his jumping around about something, she seems to do that pretty regularly. wonder how many EMCOMM groups activated themselves in anticipation of a major disaster?
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« Reply #23 on: August 23, 2011, 07:33:27 PM » |
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It shook our building in south Baltimore pretty bad. My compuker monitor was shakin bad enough that you couldn't read it. I also thought it might have been a truck, or the train tracks 100yds away till everyone else said to get out of the building ASAP.
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« Reply #24 on: August 23, 2011, 07:45:26 PM » |
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I'm in central New Jersey. I was at my computer desk and the shaking started just as I happened to stand up. I thought that perhaps I got up to fast and I was just feeling dizzy so I sat back down but when I saw the window blinds shaking I knew it was an earthquake. I was in LA for a quake about 20 years ago and I distinctly remember the blinds slapping against the window. About 90 minutes later I got some sort of an automated message on my answering machine from the local police department advising that there had been an earthquake. I guess thats my tax dollars at work. |
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