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Re: Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
« Reply #25 on: August 23, 2011, 04:34:50 PM »
I remember one in college that was a minor one--4.1 or something like that.  Thing was, it was at 5:30 in the morning.  I remember thinking to myself, "What's that shaking? . . . Oh, it's just an earthquake."  Then, said message registered in my mind, and my eyes snapped open, with the thought, "Earthquake!"  And I was out of my room in a flash.  

I was on I-87 coming back to Albany when WRVE mentioned an earthquake happening in DC.  My wife called me 20 minutes later and told me that her building in downtown Albany had been evacuated.  I told her that if I was her, I'd just go to the parking garage and go home (she didn't).  I pulled into the lot of my building in Albany and people were just filtering back in.  It was 2:35.  Ten minutes later, the guy who hired me (and is retiring at the end of September) came through, telling us, "Go home--the message just came down from on high."

Seeing that Irene is coming for the weekend, it should be interesting.
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Re: Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
« Reply #26 on: August 23, 2011, 04:36:02 PM »
obama golfing when earthquake struck
now there's a surprise....
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Re: Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
« Reply #27 on: August 23, 2011, 04:48:50 PM »
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Re: Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
« Reply #28 on: August 23, 2011, 05:10:13 PM »
Quote from: Evil_Conservative on August 23, 2011, 04:48:50 PM
Where was Moo-chelle?

Throwing a temper tantrum...which cause the earthquake
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Re: Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
« Reply #29 on: August 23, 2011, 05:38:21 PM »
Quote from: wasp69 on August 23, 2011, 03:57:50 PM
Summer of 92, right?  Wasn't the first rumble a 6.7 or something like that?

Yes it was.  Big Bear/Landers quake

The first one was a 7.2 or so
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Re: Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
« Reply #30 on: August 23, 2011, 06:27:07 PM »
I was standing up at work talking to someone and we didn't feel a thing. My house shakes more than that when a coal train goes by and so does the person I was talking too.  Everyone else went nuts.

Then we had to evacuate the building.

I called my mom and she said that she thought it was a train.

I was wondering what we would do if the chemical leak sirens went off and we had to "shelter in place".   :-)
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Re: Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
« Reply #31 on: August 23, 2011, 06:58:37 PM »
Quote from: Crazy Horse on August 23, 2011, 05:38:21 PM
Yes it was.  Big Bear/Landers quake

The first one was a 7.2 or so

Ha!  That was it!  I "slept" through that first one.
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Re: Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
« Reply #32 on: August 23, 2011, 09:57:48 PM »
Quote from: I_B_Perky on August 23, 2011, 06:27:07 PM
I was standing up at work talking to someone and we didn't feel a thing. My house shakes more than that when a coal train goes by and so does the person I was talking too.  Everyone else went nuts.

Then we had to evacuate the building.

I called my mom and she said that she thought it was a train.

I was wondering what we would do if the chemical leak sirens went off and we had to "shelter in place".   :-)

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Re: Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
« Reply #33 on: August 23, 2011, 11:19:50 PM »
The last earthquake to hit Oregon, I slept through.   It woke my wife up and she panicked because the light fixture was swaying overead and she made me take it down.
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Re: Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
« Reply #34 on: August 24, 2011, 03:56:22 AM »
I felt the tremor in central Ohio.  It's been a while since I felt one.
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Re: Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
« Reply #35 on: August 24, 2011, 09:25:24 AM »
Interesting graphic video from Discover Magazine.

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Earthquake Waves Across the USA
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Re: Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
« Reply #36 on: August 24, 2011, 10:06:13 AM »
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Where was Moo-chelle?


She was the epicenter.
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