earthquake in richmond va

[Leah]

Not even that most likely. I'm telling you from personal experince, a 6.1 isn't a big deal, especially if they are out in the open somewhere camping. The camper probably rocked for a few seconds and that was about it. If they were rocking beforehand, they probably didn't even notice. lol.

One of the ladies I work with got a text from her daughter just after it happened. Her building was evacuated and was swaying.

She's in New York.

[Steve]

One of the ladies I work with got a text from her daughter just after it happened. Her building was evacuated and was swaying.

She's in New York.

Sorry Leah, but I'm going to call BS on that one babe. I find it very difficult to believe a small 6.1 in SC is going to sway buildings all the way into New York. I'll have to take a peek at the fault line to see if it runs that far, but a 6.1 will not travel that far in strength and certainly not shake sway them hard enough to be evacuated.

I was in southern Cali when the big quake hit San Francisco and we only felt small tremors from it and that was MUCH larger than a 6.1. Something in your friends story doesn't add up.

[talisman]

A couple of news stories said that for some reason that fault makes the ground shake travel far and fast. I've read reports of it being felt as far north as Massachusetts.

[Strychnine]

Sorry Leah, but I'm going to call BS on that one babe. I find it very difficult to believe a small 6.1 in SC is going to sway buildings all the way into New York. I'll have to take a peek at the fault line to see if it runs that far, but a 6.1 will not travel that far in strength and certainly not shake sway them hard enough to be evacuated.

I was in southern Cali when the big quake hit San Francisco and we only felt small tremors from it and that was MUCH larger than a 6.1. Something in your friends story doesn't add up.

Geologically the east coast and west coast are completely different. Energy transmission is not the same in both locations.

[talisman]

One of the headlines on Yahoo right now:

Why quake shook most of East Coast
Faults that rupture east of the Rocky Mountains often create tremors felt over a widespread area


Reports now it was even felt in Vancouver.

[GrayStangGT]

A friend in DC posted this on his facebook, craziness

http://jmckinley.posterous.com/dc-earthquake-devastation

[Steve]

One of the headlines on Yahoo right now:

Why quake shook most of East Coast
Faults that rupture east of the Rocky Mountains often create tremors felt over a widespread area


Reports now it was even felt in Vancouver.

Ok, well I apologize Leah. No offense intended. That comment just went completely against my long experience with quakes and was just stating from that. I've had more than my share of being thrown out of bed in the middle of the night by a quake. You just get back up into bed cussing at it. lol. I've always thought you Texans were nuts for the "bleh" attitude with tornadoes that I have with quakes. haha.

That's crazy that the tremors were felt that far up the coastline, especially for being a moderately sized 6.1 quake.

[Steve]

A friend in DC posted this on his facebook, craziness

http://jmckinley.posterous.com/dc-ea...ke-devastation

That's funny! lol.

[stevo]

I finally heard from my niece that lives in Virgina, she said stuff fell off the walls, lamps fell over, etc, a bunch of little shit broken. She is a native Texas, and said it scared her shitless.

Stevo

[Trip McNeely]

I didn't feel shit, although I'm on the road for 4 hours a day.

[ceyko]

I finally heard from my niece that lives in Virgina, she said stuff fell off the walls, lamps fell over, etc, a bunch of little shit broken. She is a native Texas, and said it scared her shitless.

Stevo

I'm sure it scared everyone there. Grew up there and never had an earthquake. Other then the washing machine rocking the trailer I lived in.

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[talisman]

The quake that hit the East Coast on Tuesday afternoon was notable, but not unprecedented, for the eastern half of the country, geoscientists say.
Additionally, the shaking was felt over such a large area — as far south as Atlanta and as far north as Ontario, according to eyewitness reports — largely because the eastern part of the North American continent is different than the West Coast, where quakes are more common. [Album: The Great San Francisco Earthquake]
"The crust is different in the east than in the west," United States Geological Survey (USGS) earthquake geologist David Schwartz told LiveScience. "It's older and colder and denser, and as a result, seismic waves travel much farther in the east than in the west."
Additionally, said Andy Frassetto of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, the sediments along the east coast can make quakes feel stronger.
"The sediments of the coastal plain along the eastern seaboard can trap waves as they propagate and produce a minor amplification of the shaking," Frassetto told LiveScience.
A much more extreme version of this effect occurred during the earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand, this year, Frassetto said.
Faults that rupture east of the Rockies usually create quakes felt over more than 10 times the area than those west of the mountains, according to the USGS. A magnitude-5.5 quake in the Eastern U.S. can usually be felt as far as 300 miles (500 km) away.
Latest Shaking
According to the USGS, the 5.8-magnitude quake struck at 1:51 p.m. Eastern Time. The epicenter was 5 miles (8 kilometers) from Mineral, Va., and 84 miles (135 kilometers) away from Washington, D.C. Despite the distance, the Pentagon, the Capitol and other buildings were evacuated. [Read: Large Earthquake Could Strike New York City]
The quake was only about 3.7 miles (6 km) deep, according to the USGS. That's typical for the eastern U.S., Frassetto said. In the east, he said, quakes usually originate in the upper part of the crust.
In contrast, subduction zones such as the Pacific Ring of Fire, where one plate is being pushed under another, produce very deep quakes — sometimes 435 miles (700 km) down, Frassetto said. These super-deep quakes may not even be felt on the surface.
Quakes in the east
Since Virginia lies in the middle of a continental plate, the state doesn't generally experience large-magnitude earthquakes like those that rattle Los Angeles, Alaska, Haiti, Japan and Chile (or any other areas on the edge of a tectonic plate), according to the USGS.

Even so, since 1977, there have been about 200 earthquakes in Virginia. The last "big one" in Virginia occurred on May 31, 1897, in Pearisburg; it was a 5.8-magnitude temblor that, in addition to cracking walls and toppling chimneys, reportedly caused a judge in the courthouse there to adjourn a trial, jumping over a railing and fleeing outside, according to the USGS.

Virginia is classified as a "moderate" seismic risk, with a 10-20 percent chance of experiencing a 4.75-magnitude earthquake (in quakes above 4.5, buildings begin to fall), the USGS said. Alaska and California take the first and second spots for the most earthquakes in the U.S., respectively, though California experiences more damaging earthquakes due to its greater population and extensive infrastructure.
There is a history of damaging quakes in the eastern United States, however. A destructive quake hit Charleston, S.C., in 1886, damaging thousands of buildings. Its magnitude was probably near 7.0 on the Richter scale. And in 1755, a quake with around a 6.0 magnitude struck off the coast of Massachusetts.

[Fern]

before opening this thread I knew:

[ ] the strength of the earthquake in va
[ ] the history of earthquakes on the east coast
[ ] reports of washington monument tilting
[x] steve would be in here with his "X.X quakes aint shit. Silly Texans" line that he's been using over the years

[Steve]

before opening this thread I knew:

[ ] the strength of the earthquake in va
[ ] the history of earthquakes on the east coast
[ ] reports of washington monument tilting
[x] steve would be in here with his "X.X quakes aint shit. Silly Texans" line that he's been using over the years

Hey vato, shouldn't you be headin to the valley for some drive-bys?

[Fern]

Hey vato, shouldn't you be headin to the valley for some drive-bys?

chale ese id rather be up in the bay