EARTHQUAKE near DC

[Axon]

Tall buildings like that don't worry me. Those kind of buildings have dampers installed due to having to deal with wind loads. They are probably safer to be in than smaller buildings that are built solid with no room to move.

Yeah, having never experienced a quake before (and nothing knowing what happened), I ran as fast I could downstairs. Didn't know if it was a terrorist attack or what. It shook the building like crazy.

 

[Modelworks]

Yeah, having never experienced a quake before (and nothing knowing what happened), I ran as fast I could downstairs. Didn't know if it was a terrorist attack or what. It shook the building like crazy.

That is a downside of dampers in buildings. They can make the shaking last longer, they just spread out the shaking over a longer period to lessen the effect.

 

[ScoobMaster]

yea most of corning felt it, definitly felt it here in this building as did the people around me. another company downtown evaced we didnt do shit

felt like a few waves passing under a boat on a calm lake. really odd sensation. monitor vibrated a lil. stomach felt strange

i actually thought someone was fucking with me till someone else said something

Felt it here in the Southern-Tier (Owego). The building I work in gently rocked a little.

 

[sao123]

large concrete building we work in shook for about 15 seconds...
i was in the basement and definately felt it.

southwest pennsylvania

 

[uclaLabrat]

We just sat down to lunch, noticed the building swaying a bit, told everyone it felt like an earthquake. Thought it was hilarious.

 

[GTaudiophile]

The streets outside are a mess...no doubt people were frazzled and are heading home early. Makes you wonder, how many people had their lives flash before their eyes today? Will we see a slight uptick in births around 23 May 2012?

 

[Kaido]

Just outside Hartford, Connecticut. Our building swayed for over a minute - like one of those glider chairs. In the city the trees were swaying. Kinda crazy being 500 miles away and all

 

[Gibson486]

I'm in the 8th floor in Kendall Square and it felt like a subway was running right by us. We originally thought it was renovations that are going on in the floor below but nobody was down there.

Well, I am 4 bocks away from Kendall Sq. Did not feel a thing....maybe I was just numb due to all the job searching I have been doing....

 

[qliveur]

I'm in southwest Virginia and didn't notice anything. :\

 

[Anubis]

Well, I am 4 bocks away from Kendall Sq. Did not feel a thing....maybe I was just numb due to all the job searching I have been doing....

east or west of kendall?
if its east you live very close to where i used to

 

[chihlidog]

I'm in Pittsburgh, and work on the 3rd floor of a very old converted house. I definitely felt it here. Boss yelled out from her office "Um, why is my desk shaking??" I walked over to talk to her, I knew what it was. Told her it was an earthquake but that it was over, then all the sudden it got much more intense, and I saw stuff on her shelves start to sway and shake pretty good.

At that point we actually got out of the building, we didnt know if it might get even stronger. I think because our building is so old and we're on the top floor, it made it feel stronger than it really was here.

 

[Gibson486]

east or west of kendall?
if its east you love very close to where i used to

East.

 

[spaceman]

my rickety desk was shaking in wma
berkshires
definitely felt it
called pops as it happen he was on the road
it didnt know if i was stroking out
or some atmoshpheric pressure change
but when the house shook gently a bit i knew it had to be EQ

 

[Wag]

The East Coast is gonna fall into the Atlantic Ocean!!!11one

Don't worry. I'm going to dive into the magma beneath the fault and push it back into place.

 

[ussfletcher]

Damnit, you guys just had to have this a week after I left the Baltimore area, how inconsiderate. But rly, I always thought it would be neat to feel one, Michigan rarely gets any.

 

[Tristicus]

Apparently the aftershock hit here. I was outside working on my car and didn't feel it.

 

[purbeast0]

well i just got home. they closed my building. i had to take the metro from crystal city to grosvenor station, took about 90 minutes total ... kinda sucked but what can you do.

 

[BoomerD]

It's fucking hilarious...the east coast gets a 5.8...and the thread gets stickied. California gets a 5.8 and life goes on...with the rest of the country laughing about it and hoping California falls into the ocean...

 

[lxskllr]

I didn't feel anything, but it sounded like I had deer running across my roof. Just like the squirrels, only louder.

 

[shortylickens]

It's fucking hilarious...the east coast gets a 5.8...and the thread gets stickied. California gets a 5.8 and life goes on...with the rest of the country laughing about it and hoping California falls into the ocean...

Yeaah, umm, that was already commented on in the first page and THOSE comments were already commented on and forgotten.

California sucks ass, this was already established.

 

[Zeze]

It's fucking hilarious...the east coast gets a 5.8...and the thread gets stickied. California gets a 5.8 and life goes on...with the rest of the country laughing about it and hoping California falls into the ocean...

Because of what they're used to?

Boston gets 18" of snow, the fucking armada of plowers are glad to earn their tax dollars and rape the crap out of all snow throughout the state.

Atlanta gets 2" last year and the whole city shut down, not a single truck to prepare what to do.

 

[Fern]

I felt it down here in Western NC (Smoky Mtn area).

At first I thought there was something wrong with me, like I was getting woozy.

Then I looked up and noticed that the water in the water cooler was sloshing around.

Fern

 

[purbeast0]

It's fucking hilarious...the east coast gets a 5.8...and the thread gets stickied. California gets a 5.8 and life goes on...with the rest of the country laughing about it and hoping California falls into the ocean...

umad bro?

 

[Minerva]

It's fucking hilarious...the east coast gets a 5.8...and the thread gets stickied. California gets a 5.8 and life goes on...with the rest of the country laughing about it and hoping California falls into the ocean...

Two things come to mind...

1) A 5.9 happens every 100+ years so that's a big deal.
2) Building codes here don't even take into consideration of this sort of thing. Lots of brick buildings and brick doesn't shake well.

It scared me. Thought it was a truck backing into the loading dock hard at first as that has happened before but it kept up, rolling, and got noticeably more prominent. A few of the jolts were like airline turbulence and knocked a few books off my desk. I thought the building was going to collapse so that was my cue to haul ass! By the time we ran outside it had stopped. Lots of people were outside and car alarms could be heard going off. Definitely a first time for us! (in Vienna Virginia)

 

[Zeze]

Well, I am 4 bocks away from Kendall Sq. Did not feel a thing....maybe I was just numb due to all the job searching I have been doing....

How are you enjoying one of the best unemployment compensations of US?