Shake shake Shake, Shake shake Shake, Shake the whitehouse....

Agent Smith

(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., shook much of Washington, D.C., and was felt as far north as Rhode Island and New York City.
The U.S. Geological Survey, which initially reported a magnitude of 5.8, said the earthquake was 3.7 miles deep. Shaking was felt at the White House and all over the East Coast, as far south as Chapel Hill, N.C. Parts of the Pentagon, White House and Capitol were evacuated. The quake was in Mineral, Va., in Louisa County.

I wonder what Barack doing, Out having a fag?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/23/national/main20096120.shtml

ricero

the end is nigh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

120_Minutes

He's on holiday in marthas vineyard, and tremors were felt there. It's been classed as light to moderately heavy, but the tremors have a wide radius, new York, Virginia, dc, Ohio and the carolinas.... That's a big area

Jess16

Oprah must have gone for a jog :rolleyes:

Latchy

My friend Irene is chuffed that a Hurricane which hit some part of the states yesterday has being named after her .

Edit- Hurricane Irene heads for Bahamas

Mickeroo

Unusual for a quake to hit that side of the states eh?

CreepingDeath

Apparently there's a hidden nuclear reactor for power under the white house, in the nuclear bunker. Get your geiger counters out if you're in DC !

danniemcq

you SOB agent smith! is your one minute earlier thread revenge for a few weeks ago in Croker?

Bonavox

Latchy wrote: »

My friend Irene is chuffed that a Hurricane which hit some part of the states yesterday has being named after her .

Edit- Hurricane Irene heads for Bahamas

You have a friend called Irene?

Riddle101

Mickeroo wrote: »

Unusual for a quake to hit that side of the states eh?

I don't know, I heard that an earthquake on that side is likely, and that New York was waiting for one or something. Can't be specific but I'm not surprised.

Latchy

Bonavox wrote: »

You have a friend called Irene?

Me myself and Irene have known each other years now ...and I also have a friend named Paul .

Hazys

I work in Boston and i think i'm the only one in the office that didn't feel/notice it.

Crazy stuff never experience an earthquake before...still haven't tho

Thrill

cnnbrk CNN Breaking News



A nuclear power station in Virginia, near the #earthquake epicenter, lost power but is on reserves, officials say

DominoDub

Looks like the Washington Monument maybe tiliting

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs22/PRE/f/2007/340/1/b/Washington_Monument_Tilted_by_blackmariah27.jpg

Mickeroo

Riddle101 wrote: »

I don't know, I heard that an earthquake on that side is likely, and that New York was waiting for one or something. Can't be specific but I'm not surprised.

Just did some reasearch and it's no closer to a faultline than we are, very out of the ordinary I think.

Map of Fault Lines

Nodin

DominoDub wrote: »

Looks like the Washington Monument maybe tiliting

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs22/PRE/f/2007/340/1/b/Washington_Monument_Tilted_by_blackmariah27.jpg

Never looked like that when Kennedy or Clinton were in office.

FlutterinBantam

:rolleyes:


Always the bad word

Temptamperu

heres a picture of some of the devestation

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

Wertz

Irene set for impact somewhere on the NE seaboard by sunday morning too...probably not as far N as NYC.
Unusual place to get a tremor...

Big Nasty

Definitely odd being so far away from a fault line.

o1s1n

I was going for a walk earlier in a park in Jersey. The guy I was out with said -

'stand over here, the ground feels like it's shaking. I think it's some wildlife burrowing under us'

'I can feel it too! There must be another one!'

Feckin muppets!

DominoDub

Looks like it was bad in NY

http://www.broadsheet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tumblr_lqe83jWFkW1qz7b4yo1_500.gif?f22064

retalivity

Im in south western ontario, 19 floors up, over 1000 miles away and i felt it.
was strange...at first i thought my leg was spasming, then my chair started rolling back from the computer.
everyone here in the office felt it and were up after that, looking out the window.
was very weird, my first tremor/mini earthquake!

Killer Pigeon

I'm sure HAARP had something to do with this.

Killer Pigeon

DominoDub wrote: »

Looks like it was bad in NY

http://www.broadsheet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tumblr_lqe83jWFkW1qz7b4yo1_500.gif?f22064

New York was hit pretty badly:

Devastation

Mickeroo

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

New York was hit pretty badly:

Devastation

Is that really from today??



Apparently there was over 700 quakes in the states in the last day. Can't be a good sign, maybe Yellowstone will blow (joke) !

fontanalis

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

I'm sure HAARP had something to do with this.

It would take a lot of pints though!

Killer Pigeon

Mickeroo wrote: »

Is that really from today??



Apparently there was over 700 quakes in the states in the last day. Can't be a good sign, maybe Yellowstone will blow (joke) !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syEM9gM23o

up for anything

Riddle101 wrote: »

I don't know, I heard that an earthquake on that side is likely, and that New York was waiting for one or something. Can't be specific but I'm not surprised.

That makes so little sense!

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Definitely odd being so far away from a fault line.

Not so odd.

EARTHQUAKES IN THE CENTRAL VIRGINIA SEISMIC ZONE
Since at least 1774, people in central Virginia have felt small earthquakes and suffered damage from infrequent larger ones. The largest damaging earthquake (magnitude 4.8) in the seismic zone occurred in 1875. Smaller earthquakes that cause little or no damage are felt each year or two.

Earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S., although less frequent than in the western U.S., are typically felt over a much broader region. East of the Rockies, an earthquake can be felt over an area as much as ten times larger than a similar magnitude earthquake on the west coast. A magnitude 4.0 eastern U.S. earthquake typically can be felt at many places as far as 100 km (60 mi) from where it occurred, and it infrequently causes damage near its source. A magnitude 5.5 eastern U.S. earthquake usually can be felt as far as 500 km (300 mi) from where it occurred, and sometimes causes damage as far away as 40 km (25 mi).

FAULTS
Earthquakes everywhere occur on faults within bedrock, usually miles deep. Most bedrock beneath central Virginia was assembled as continents collided to form a supercontinent about 500-300 million years ago, raising the Appalachian Mountains. Most of the rest of the bedrock formed when the supercontinent rifted apart about 200 million years ago to form what are now the northeastern U.S., the Atlantic Ocean, and Europe.

At well-studied plate boundaries like the San Andreas fault system in California, often scientists can determine the name of the specific fault that is responsible for an earthquake. In contrast, east of the Rocky Mountains this is rarely the case. The Central Virginia seismic zone is far from the nearest plate boundaries, which are in the center of the Atlantic Ocean and in the Caribbean Sea. The seismic zone is laced with known faults but numerous smaller or deeply buried faults remain undetected. Even the known faults are poorly located at earthquake depths. Accordingly, few, if any, earthquakes in the seismic zone can be linked to named faults. It is difficult to determine if a known fault is still active and could slip and cause an earthquake. As in most other areas east of the Rockies, the best guide to earthquake hazards in the seismic zone is the earthquakes themselves.

Source: NEIC/USGS

http://www.geol.vt.edu/outreach/vtso/cvsz.html

Mickeroo

up for anything wrote: »

That makes so little sense!



Not so odd.



http://www.geol.vt.edu/outreach/vtso/cvsz.html

One of this magnitude is pretty odd for an area not near a fault or I suppose uncommon would be a better word, but it's true there is small earthquakes everywhere all the time. There have been earthquakes recorded in the british isles of a similar magnitude in the past! There was a 2.7 earthquake in Co Clare in 2010.