Earthquake in VA/DC

[Ryne08 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ryne08]

We felt the earth quake in Suffolk and Chesapeake, Virginia.

[Icc5 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Icc5]

Ocean ride

Hope everyone and everything is OK after the quake. Haven't heard anyone talk about falling into the ocean as they do every time we have a quake here in Calif. I bet the world won't even end today.
Bart

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

I was working in a large school. The people in the front of the building all felt it, but I was in the back of the school and felt nothing.
My mom and her husband felt their furniture shaking and their wall pictures rattled on the South Shore of Long Island.
Hope all in VA and the DC area are ok!

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

I was on the 23rd floor of a building in midtown Manhattan, and I didn't feel it, but other people did. We mostly knew it had happened because there were a bunch of twitters about it!

[Pat H Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Pat H]

Didn't feel a thing in SC.

[chriskre Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chriskre]

Nothing here either.

But We get to dodge Irene.
I hope she doesn't maker her way up to you guys.

[Pat H Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Pat H]

Looks like Irene is going to miss us also and make a beeline for the Jersey Shore.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

My SIL who lives in VA had some plates come off the walls and some slight damage to other glass wear. I heard from friends and family one said it was nothing the other said it was bad, What was funny was for the first time I had my family who lives on the west coast ask us if we were OK. Then we got the old lines we told them all the time like why would you want to live in California with all those earth quakes. I never felt a thing since I am in Florida now.

[pkyorkbeach Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close pkyorkbeach]

It was felt in CT as well

[Jya-Ning Silver Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close Jya-Ning]

Peru get hit with earthquake 6.8

The earth is unsettled. Time to review what to do when earthquake coming Prepare

East coast never planed to have earthquake, so its building may not be too sound. Just make sure you can survive it.

Jya-Ning

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

The one bad thing about earthquakes is that they come unexpectedly and can be any time of the day or night. Sometimes, it is the sound that gets your attention first like windows or shutters rattling. Other times, it is the shaking and they differ quite a bit too. Some are like a jolt and others are rolling and they may feel like you are losing your equilibrium until you realize that it is an earthquake. The rolling ones seem to last longer and get more intense the longer they last. Was yours a rolling one?

Have you felt any aftershocks or not? Normally, there are quite a few. You don't feel the little ones but the big aftershocks are scary because you wonder if the "BIG" one is coming and the last one was just a foreshock.

I hope that everyone is OK and not having much damage either.

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[RESORT2ME Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close RESORT2ME]

Not there ... DARN IT!

Caroll claims to have "felt the earth move under her feet". And there was not even foreshock. Her experience had no fore anything.


She claims she never thought "if the "BIG" one is coming".