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I work in Boston, and I felt quite a rumble
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My Mom on Long Island felt it as well as my daughter in law in Millers Creek N.C. about eight miles from my house in Wilkesboro N.C. We didn't feel a thing here.Go figure.
Just an old Hippie and I don"t know what to do.
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I heard on the news this early morning that a 5.3 quake had occurred close to Trinidad CO. Weird how two moderate quakes hit in odd areas (read Not in Cali) on the same day.
Blowing gravel off rural roads
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whole damn world is starting to come unglued...
tell me I'm wrong.. please
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My wife was teaching a class in Springfield MA and called me saying that desks were moving around due to an aftershock... That's just an aftershock.
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Thought maybe Triumph was testing the Rocket IV or something...
A 3 second rumble was followed by a 2 minute "vibration" we could feel through the floor just west of Baltimore, MD. We stood in doorways for about 5 minutes and it's been quiet since. Calls to Carlisle, PA and Richmond, VA indicate similar experiences with co-workers. No reports of damage or injuries. Pretty fortunate!
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It was pretty freaky. Chandelier swayed for a while. It woke my son up. My daughter spazzed....
(last time we had an earthquake over 5.0 in VA was May 31, 1897: Giles County. Largest earthquake in intensity and areal extent, with aftershocks continuing through June 6, 1897; Magnitude 5.9. So....maybe we get some after-shocks.)
I'm taking 5 in the pool for mentions of PTSD on the local news tonight.
...you're gonna feel a little pressure....
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I was in silver spring, the floor dropped about two. Feet below me....figured a Harley guy passed on an official accessory 
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...you're gonna feel a little pressure....
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(last time we had an earthquake over 5.0 in VA was May 31, 1897: Giles County. Largest earthquake in intensity and areal extent, with aftershocks continuing through June 6, 1897; Magnitude 5.9.
What an exceptional memory you have 
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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After Washington DC realized that the earthquake was nothing to worry about, they took to Twitter to joke about the cause. Some of the best ones below:
@TPCarney: Krugman says it wasn't big enough.
@comradescott: Evidently the quake occurred on a little known fault line outside of DC called "Bush's Fault".
@calebhowe: Breaking: Obama administration points out they "inherited" fault lines from previous administrations.
@MaizeBlueNation: Fox News claims the Washington monument is leaning to the right, MSNBC claims it's leaning to the left. More news at 11.
@charliespiering: I won't stop shaking until Obama makes a speech telling me that everything is ok and that he has a plan.
@Ben_Howe: As all of DC leaves work at the same time, the United States experiences a brief economic recovery.
(From the Washington Examiner)
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that was in my cliff claven voice, ladisney.
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Here is NW NJ...... 30-45sec of decent shaking..... Very unsettling......
My buddy in Va thinks it was worse up here then there from what I described.... who knows...
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HA!!! And you guys back east think you're sooooooo friggin' tough! Heck, when I lived in California, a 5.9 was NOTHIN'!!! (...and we LIKED IT!!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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whole damn world is starting to come unglued...
tell me I'm wrong.. please
You are wrong. USGS tracks dozens of quakes a day, pretty much every day. This was the biggest quake in VA in 110 years, which is NOTHING in geologic time, NOTHING. I have read that geologists think NYC is overdue for a tremblor which is mostly problematic because of older architecture and building construction. Living pretty much anywhere on earth is like living near the train track, only without the scheduled rumbles.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Quakes can be rough, but we are due for solar activity in a couple of years from now that could conceivably fry entire electrical grids planetwide (and your cars ignition, laptop, PC, cell phone, X Box, you name it), I better go for another ride. Great for stress relief.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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@Ben_Howe: As all of DC leaves work at the same time, the United States experiences a brief economic recovery.
 
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Not one mention in the news of the slightly smaller one we had about 9 years ago, they all gotta go for biggest n baddest. I was bouncing around on my lawnmower so I missed it dammit. Didn't hear about till I stopped for water and had txts.
Cut it up.
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I had Slayer goin in my earbuds too, so maybe counter eartquake measures should include loud metal. Lol
Cut it up.
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@Ben_Howe: As all of DC leaves work at the same time, the United States experiences a brief economic recovery.
How do you spell relief. Washington DC leaves work early. 
Ok that's a bit long but ................
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Dramatic photo of some of the devastation caused by "The Great East Coast Earthquake of 2011".....  (...oh the humanity!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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The Weather Channel says today's East oast earthquake was caused by an unknown fault line running under D.C. and through Virginia. It is now being called Obama's Fault, though Obama will say it's really Bush's Fault. Other theories are that it was the founding fathers rolling over in their graves or, that what we all believed to be an earthquake was actually the effects of a 14.6 trillion dollar check bouncing in Washington.
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Hey I saw a pic way worse it even had a spilled drink on the table. I'll see if I can find it again
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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The Weather Channel says today's East oast earthquake was caused by an unknown fault line running under D.C. and through Virginia. It is now being called Obama's Fault, though Obama will say it's really Bush's Fault. Other theories are that it was the founding fathers rolling over in their graves or, that what we all believed to be an earthquake was actually the effects of a 14.6 trillion dollar check bouncing in Washington.
Good one there, Mike!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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BOB!!!! I meant BOB!!!!!!  
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Btw John, ya know you SHOULD have seen this whole thing comin', right?! I mean, remember when I was drivin' ya down to pick up that Harley, and I stopped to show ya that Moto Guzzi at that other shop? (...well, what did I do after showin' ya that Guzzi...HUH?!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Oh I know. The mind is the first thing to go, right?
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Yep, that's right Joe!
(...errr...John)
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Dramatic photo of some of the devastation caused by "The Great East Coast Earthquake of 2011".....
(...oh the humanity!)
Oh my... you just made me dribble coffee out my nose
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Dramatic photo of some of the devastation caused by "The Great East Coast Earthquake of 2011".....
(...oh the humanity!)
HA HA... Wait till the west coast gets a hurricane, a
tornado or a blizzard (It's funny watching people trying to drive in the white stuff) 
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It felt like big truck passing by here. Now we have a hurricane headed for the coast. They rarely do a lot of damage up here in the mountains but downed trees on the power lines can be difficult get to. God bless our linemen around here. They are real pros.
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Now THAT reminds me of a little song there, Chet. "And the Wilmington[NC] Linemen, are still on the LIIIIIIIIIIIINE!" (...yeah, I know..."I know I need a small vacation", don't I???!!!) 
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My original composition - "the ballad of the Virgnia Quake" (to the tune of the edmund fitzgerald):
The legend lives on from the beltway on down
of the big shake they called "the 5-9er"
The quake it is said caused not one single dead
when it shook DC and all those around her
With a rumble and roar heard at each starbucks store
The latte's shook off of their tables.
The floors slick as cream, what a harrowing scene
The patrons all scrambled for safety
ohhhh ohhhh the land shook like japan around me
ohhhh ohhhh we'd better take up oragami
Down on the floor of the check-cashing store
We thought maybe it was just a drive-by
As we shook to and fro only then did we know
That this was a major trembler
The traffic from town stood stock still on the roads
my cell phone no more than dead weight
I tried to call home to let them all know
Their taco bell would get there, but late
(okay - it's rough, and not done....but feel free to contribute verses).
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It felt like big truck passing by here. Now we have a hurricane headed for the coast. They rarely do a lot of damage up here in the mountains but downed trees on the power lines can be difficult get to. God bless our linemen around here. They are real pros.
We drove through Charlotte just after Hugo in '89. I was surprised to see damage that far inland. Entire roofs sitting on the highway. 25'+ boats picked up from Lake Norman and dropped in the median on I-77. It wiped out all the trees near my father-in-law's lake place outside Statesville (picture a clear-cut forest), but didn't damage any nearby homes. 
Firewood was real cheap for the next few years.
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 Great parody of the Lightfoot song there, Hasso!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I was in our high rise office in Tysons Corner VA and it felt like the building was going to come down. The last wave (before it quit) was almost like an explosion. Almost knocked me off my feet. My wife was out mowing the yard (in Warrenton) and it did knock her off her feet. She said she could see the yard moving like waves in the ocean. Did some damage to the driveway (where the pavement was flush up against the house either side of the garage door) dropped about 6 inches. Broke some stuff in the house (vases that were on a shelf and a couple of pictures that fell off the walls).
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