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We just had an earthquake!
8/23/2011 2:01:59 PM
In Baltimore!
App. 1350, substantial shaking. Some stuff fell off the counter.
Small shock followed by a much larger one and a couple of little tremors as it ended.
Went outside. People on the side walk said they felt it.
One guy was a Californian, said it felt like a 2 or 2.5 to him.
Report in if you felt this.
App. 1350, substantial shaking. Some stuff fell off the counter.
Small shock followed by a much larger one and a couple of little tremors as it ended.
Went outside. People on the side walk said they felt it.
One guy was a Californian, said it felt like a 2 or 2.5 to him.
Report in if you felt this.
8/23/2011 2:05:47 PM
The entire East coast got hit.
Apparently, it's aftershocks from something in Colorado?
Damn you, Lex Luthor!
Oh, and dupe.
Apparently, it's aftershocks from something in Colorado?
Damn you, Lex Luthor!
Oh, and dupe.
8/23/2011 2:07:43 PM
Felt it in southern Delaware
8/23/2011 2:20:32 PM
Originally Posted By trashpicker:
Felt it in southern Delaware
Felt it in southern Delaware
Folks are in Milton.
Can't get through by POTS or cel.
You in Lower Slower?
8/23/2011 2:29:12 PM
Originally Posted By ColonelHurtz:
Folks are in Milton.
Can't get through by POTS or cel.
You in Lower Slower?
Originally Posted By trashpicker:
Felt it in southern Delaware
Felt it in southern Delaware
Folks are in Milton.
Can't get through by POTS or cel.
You in Lower Slower?
Yes,
phone service "overloaded"
8/23/2011 2:58:05 PM
Felt it here in Carroll County.......... bed started to move then the whole house shook and vibrated, was actually interesting to feel it.
Hope no one has any damage from it.
Hope no one has any damage from it.
8/23/2011 3:57:07 PM
man, i was on 695 coming home for work. I felt nothing.
8/23/2011 4:13:13 PM
Originally Posted By BRONZ:
man, i was on 695 coming home for work. I felt nothing.
man, i was on 695 coming home for work. I felt nothing.
You would have liked it.
I've never experienced a "real" one. Only the little tremblors when the Patapsco Valley fault went active for a week or so ten years ago.
This was the real deal. Whole fucking house was creaking and shaking. Glasses were clinking in the cabinets.
My folks seem to have been in a car in transit at the moment as well and said they felt nothing.
You might have felt it and just thought it was truck wash or a bump in the road.
I ran outside right after it subsided and was talking to some neighbors.
One of them pointed out that the aerials on the parked cars were still shaking about five minutes after it hit.
8/23/2011 4:59:39 PM
I work on Ft. Meade and it shook the hell out of our warehouse. We may not be allowed to work because of damage to some of the inner walls. Screw it, if the Govt pays I will stay home.
8/23/2011 5:40:30 PM
6 floors up, it shook pretty good.
All the folks with messy offices with a bunch of gear adrift had their stuff fall onto the deck.
Now maybe next time I mention that I keep my office clean because you never know when the ship will take a roll, they'll believe me.
All the folks with messy offices with a bunch of gear adrift had their stuff fall onto the deck.
Now maybe next time I mention that I keep my office clean because you never know when the ship will take a roll, they'll believe me.
8/23/2011 6:35:15 PM
Rocked pretty good down in Southern MD.
At first, thought it was a helicopter (get them LOW and often)
Then, a glass of water walked off my desk.
Told the folks with me to get outside (door was only 6' away)
Row of vehicles were slowly rocking back and forth.
VERY strange sensation.
After it stopped, dump and trailer combo was still going, clink, clink, clink!
Wife was in a store and stuff was falling off shelves.
Cashier screamed and RAN out the door!
ETA:
Shut down bridges until they could be inspected for structural damage so traffic got BAD!
You'd THINK when there was an event of this nature, and the bridge closure caused a massive backup, (Rt 301 Nice Bridge into VA) that'd they skip the tolls for 1/2 hour to let things get going again.
HA! Not this money grubbing %$#% state!
At first, thought it was a helicopter (get them LOW and often)
Then, a glass of water walked off my desk.
Told the folks with me to get outside (door was only 6' away)
Row of vehicles were slowly rocking back and forth.
VERY strange sensation.
After it stopped, dump and trailer combo was still going, clink, clink, clink!
Wife was in a store and stuff was falling off shelves.
Cashier screamed and RAN out the door!
ETA:
Shut down bridges until they could be inspected for structural damage so traffic got BAD!
You'd THINK when there was an event of this nature, and the bridge closure caused a massive backup, (Rt 301 Nice Bridge into VA) that'd they skip the tolls for 1/2 hour to let things get going again.
HA! Not this money grubbing %$#% state!
8/24/2011 9:11:05 AM
I work in Arbutus and felt it. My fiance immediately emailed me and asked if I felt it and she's in DC. She thought it was a terrorist attack.
8/24/2011 12:58:12 PM
I thought I was having a seizure
8/24/2011 2:15:01 PM
Originally Posted By HUMONGO:
I thought I was having a seizure
I thought I was having a seizure
I had a weird little episode of vertigo attacks that lasted about two weeks maybe nine years ago.
Vertigo desn't make the pictures bang against the wall.
8/24/2011 3:28:34 PM
Did anybody feel the aftershock around 11:30PM last night?
I said, "Whoa, we just had another earthquake!"
My wife asked, "What?"
I said, "Can't you feel it?"
She said, "I guess..."
Sadly, that wasn't the first time for those last three lines. I keed, I keed.
I said, "Whoa, we just had another earthquake!"
My wife asked, "What?"
I said, "Can't you feel it?"
She said, "I guess..."
Sadly, that wasn't the first time for those last three lines.
I keed, I keed.8/24/2011 4:01:59 PM
That was kind of cool.
I was sitting in my work truck (tractor/trailer) backed into a dock at a Wegman's in Gainesville, VA.
Whole truck started shaking pretty violently. I thought it was something wrong with the truck. "Earthquake" never once registered until I got a phone call from the GF 15 minutes later telling me it was an earthquake.
From inside the tractor it kind of felt like an amplified version of when someone is loading/unloading the trailer with a forklift.
Had I been driving at the time, I might not have noticed it. That rig shakes like a sumbitch enough as it is.
I was sitting in my work truck (tractor/trailer) backed into a dock at a Wegman's in Gainesville, VA.
Whole truck started shaking pretty violently. I thought it was something wrong with the truck. "Earthquake" never once registered until I got a phone call from the GF 15 minutes later telling me it was an earthquake.
From inside the tractor it kind of felt like an amplified version of when someone is loading/unloading the trailer with a forklift.
Had I been driving at the time, I might not have noticed it. That rig shakes like a sumbitch enough as it is.
8/24/2011 4:36:46 PM
As posted on Facebook
Breaking news: Obama interrupts his Martha's Vineyard golfing to announce
that the Washington DC earthquake occurred on an obscure faultline that runs
under the White House and is known as "Bush's Fault."
However, it has been confirmed that the shaking felt in Washington DC was
actually our Founding Fathers all rolling in their graves over the state of Our Country
Breaking news: Obama interrupts his Martha's Vineyard golfing to announce
that the Washington DC earthquake occurred on an obscure faultline that runs
under the White House and is known as "Bush's Fault."
However, it has been confirmed that the shaking felt in Washington DC was
actually our Founding Fathers all rolling in their graves over the state of Our Country
8/25/2011 7:24:37 AM
I was home sick with a stomach virus and I felt it around 1:52pm. I heard the church bell down the road start ringing and I wondered why. Seconds later, I stood up and felt the trembling and heard the noise. Definitely different and impressive.
