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Earthquake on the east coast, or "MB fell"
2011-08-23, 11:22 AM #1
Magnitude 5.8 Earthquake in Virginia. Feeling tremors up here in NYC! Shook my building a bit.
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2011-08-23, 11:28 AM #2
holy **** is that what that was? I was play Deus Ex and everything in my apartment started shaking but not violently, weird
2011-08-23, 11:29 AM #3
Get a crutch, EM BEGGER
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2011-08-23, 11:36 AM #4
DAMMIT! I came here specifically to make the mb is fat joke. SONOFA*****.
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2011-08-23, 11:38 AM #5
Me too. In Brooklyn.

According to the ASCE conference I went to months ago, stricter, broader codes for seismic loads were implemented for NYC buildings only from around 1994, so a lot of NYC's older buildings didn't incorporate serious seismic loading issues in their design. The city doesn't receive much in the way of earthquakes so this a bit understandable, unlike cities in California.

Buildings in NYC should be founded in Manhattan's bedrock, but the bedrock "dips down" in certain parts. Hence the smaller, older buildings around SoHo.
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2011-08-23, 11:54 AM #6
I felt it here in Toronto. My building shook from side to side a few times and that was it. I thought I was tripping out but saw the posts on FB and here.
2011-08-23, 12:13 PM #7
I felt it here in Warwick, RI at my office. People actually evacuated and we were outside for 15 minutes. heh it was nice to get out of work for a bit.
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2011-08-23, 12:33 PM #8
I'm in Northern VA, just outside DC. We got evacuated (though no damage - the building we're in just wasn't meant to withstand earthquakes, so they wanted to be sure)

I work right by the pentagon though, and since we don't usually get earthquakes, everyone's first thought was "****. Attack on the pentagon?"

Also Traffic's a nightmare. It always is, of course, but most people I think are getting off early, so it's totally jammed.
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2011-08-23, 12:42 PM #9
man you know the California economy is ****ed when even the earthquakes are leaving...


also i imagine this is a little bit what its like watching people from the souhwest react to snow.
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2011-08-23, 12:45 PM #10
That doesn't really hold true - DC freaks out when it comes to snow too, even though we get it just about every year. It's just a very high strung city. :P
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2011-08-23, 12:49 PM #11
Touché
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2011-08-23, 12:55 PM #12
But attempted terrorist attacks? Nothing but a big damn traffic inconvenience.

"Suspicious package at the Pentagon? Damn, I'm going to be late to work again!"
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2011-08-23, 1:30 PM #13
Fun times here in MD. Also, I laughed when someone who came into work later had actually been having sex earlier with their wife during the earthquake, but sadly, they did not say "that wasn't the earth, baby, that was all me! :cool:"
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2011-08-23, 1:32 PM #14
Not a big deal. Of all of us, I'm probably closest to the epicenter (Which was in Mineral, apparently). We don't get a lot of earthquakes here, or big ones, but there is a bunch of fault lines all through the piedmont.
2011-08-23, 2:54 PM #15
A lot of panicking here in MD also especially in my work area with all the govies.
2011-08-23, 3:12 PM #16
We never get any fun stuff like earthquakes around here. :(

(Despite the scare stories that pop up every year or so claming that Memphis will be destroyed by a massive earthquake and fall off into the Mississippi River.)
2011-08-23, 3:15 PM #17
Yeah, we felt it at the office. Certainly confused everyone, considering we're in the western part of West Virginia and these things don't happen here.
2011-08-23, 4:15 PM #18
DC earthquake devastation
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2011-08-23, 4:17 PM #19
That was perfect, Michael, represents the situation accurately.
2011-08-23, 8:31 PM #20
The crazy thing is, my old house is smack dab on the epicenter... good thing I'm at school. My mother called and told me it felt like a jet was about to land on top of the house, and that our dog started barking hysterically right before it happened.
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2011-08-23, 8:33 PM #21
I honestly only noticed my desk shaking like someone was trying to get my attention. I took off my headphones and someone asked if the building was shaking.

A 60 story building shaking is quite unsettling.
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2011-08-23, 8:33 PM #22
5.8? ZZZZZzzzzzZZZzz
2011-08-23, 8:36 PM #23
Originally posted by ECHOMAN:
Me too. In Brooklyn.

According to the ASCE conference I went to months ago, stricter, broader codes for seismic loads were implemented for NYC buildings only from around 1994, so a lot of NYC's older buildings didn't incorporate serious seismic loading issues in their design. The city doesn't receive much in the way of earthquakes so this a bit understandable, unlike cities in California.

Buildings in NYC should be founded in Manhattan's bedrock, but the bedrock "dips down" in certain parts. Hence the smaller, older buildings around SoHo.


Also this is why it's a big deal for somewhere like New York.
[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
2011-08-23, 9:18 PM #24
/points and laughs at the lot of ya.

Seismic noobs
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2011-08-23, 9:28 PM #25
[http://i.imgur.com/8XtsO.jpg]
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2011-08-24, 6:16 AM #26
god damn that post ^
2011-08-24, 6:30 AM #27
Hahahahahaha
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2011-08-24, 7:03 AM #28
[http://i.imgur.com/7kDXs.jpg]
2011-08-24, 7:08 AM #29
and

here

come

the

memes!
2011-08-24, 10:03 AM #30
Breaking news: Obama interrupts his Martha's Vineyard golfing to announce that the Washington DC earthquake occurred on an obscure fault-line that runs under the White House and is known as "Bush's Fault."
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2011-08-24, 12:57 PM #31
There was a what?
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