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2011-08-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by tu3031 2011-08-23 14:13|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 I felt it. The house shook, light fixture looked like it was going to fall out of the ceiling.

Posted by Fred 2011-08-23 14:23|| 2011-08-23 14:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow. Not used to that in Baltimore I'll bet.

Posted by tu3031 2011-08-23 14:25|| 2011-08-23 14:25|| Front Page Top

#3 The Feds might want to reconsider opening the gulf up for oil production. Haliburton.

Posted by bman 2011-08-23 14:28|| 2011-08-23 14:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Felt nuthin in NE OH.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-23 14:41|| 2011-08-23 14:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Oooooops...sorry.

Posted by Halliburton:Earthquake/Tsunami Division 2011-08-23 14:45|| 2011-08-23 14:45|| Front Page Top

#6 First earthquake I've ever felt on the east coast.

Posted by Fred 2011-08-23 15:01|| 2011-08-23 15:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Coming up next: "Catastrophic" Hurricanes...

Posted by tu3031 2011-08-23 15:02|| 2011-08-23 15:02|| Front Page Top

#8 bah! We use 5.9's to stir the ice in our cocktails

Posted by Frank G 2011-08-23 15:30|| 2011-08-23 15:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Yeah, felt it in central Pennsylvania. Was freaked out when we looked out the window & there was this column of smoke; apparently unrelated, some 94-year-old chose that moment to burn down his workshop while playing around with an industrial welder.

People are reporting feeling it all the way up in Connecticut. It was relatively strong for the East Coast, and fairly shallow. I haven't heard of any serious damage anywhere, yet - nothing even as impressive as grandpa arc-welder's little shed fire.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-08-23 15:36|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-08-23 15:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Felt it in White River Junction, Vermont. Was on the phone with a guy in DC: HE felt it.

Tu3031, my daughter working in Cambridge, MA felt it, but she works for a geological sciences company, and was all excited.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2011-08-23 16:36|| 2011-08-23 16:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Felt it in Kingsport, Tennessee.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-08-23 16:41|| 2011-08-23 16:41|| Front Page Top

#12 I was in the shower. I didn't feel a thing.

Posted by tu3031 2011-08-23 16:53|| 2011-08-23 16:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Having spent most of my life on the East coast, it was the most earthquake I've ever experienced. Whole office building felt like it was moving; not violently but just kind of a slow shake.

Posted by eltoroverde 2011-08-23 17:12|| 2011-08-23 17:12|| Front Page Top

#14 Forget to mention that I'm in downtown DC.

Posted by eltoroverde 2011-08-23 17:22|| 2011-08-23 17:22|| Front Page Top

#15 Reports it was felt in Atlanta, New Burnswick, Columbus, Ohio and Totonto. What is amazing is how far it travels here.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-08-23 17:23|| 2011-08-23 17:23|| Front Page Top

#16 An unoccupied building in Camden NJ partially collapsed. Probably on landfill.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-08-23 17:24|| 2011-08-23 17:24|| Front Page Top

#17 DC Quake Tweets from the Examiner:

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/top-politically-themed-earthquake-tweets

Posted by Mercutio 2011-08-23 17:26|| 2011-08-23 17:26|| Front Page Top

#18 my wife works nights and says it woke her up (northwest GA). i was driving at the time and felt nothing. the cashier at the gas-n-go says the display on the counter shuddered a little.

pretty trippy. a comment being cut and pasted around on facebook:

Breaking News: it's just been established by the administration that the DC earthquake occurred on a rare and obscure faultline, apparently known as "Bush's Fault".

Posted by abu do you love 2011-08-23 17:57|| 2011-08-23 17:57|| Front Page Top

#19 I work in northern Virginia, about 40 miles from the epicenter. The earthquake started just as I got on the elevator to go downstairs. I figured that the cables were coming loose or something.
After that they evacuated the building. Unfortunately, they made us go back work.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2011-08-23 18:09|| 2011-08-23 18:09|| Front Page Top

#20 Pretty noticeable in Manhattan- Financial District. Sort of like a subway train passing under us (w/o the sound) ... but we were on the 10th floor.

Lots of people walked out into the street and acted a bit squirrely; then calmed down and went back to work.

One thing- I am very unimpressed with what I am hearing about the lack of communications resilience. My Verizon/Android phone was frozen and knocked out...

Posted by Free Radical 2011-08-23 18:15|| 2011-08-23 18:15|| Front Page Top

#21 Obama is saying the quake originated at a little known fault just south of DC known as "Bush's fault"

Posted by retired LEO 2011-08-23 18:25|| 2011-08-23 18:25|| Front Page Top

#22 coworkers as far away as Detroit felt it, as did my sister in Cleveland. Being right outside of Dulles airport, to say that I felt it was an understatement...

Posted by IG-88 2011-08-23 18:29|| 2011-08-23 18:29|| Front Page Top

#23 You mean Bush's crack...

Posted by Trembling B4 G*d 2011-08-23 18:54|| 2011-08-23 18:54|| Front Page Top

#24 Felt it in Richmond - and how! I've felt other earthquakes, but this is the worst I've felt in Virginia. Hi-rise downtown building shook (and swayed, according to the people outside taking a break). We all said, "Yep, that was an earthquake" and kept on working.

Posted by Barbara 2011-08-23 19:10|| 2011-08-23 19:10|| Front Page Top

#25 Hummm -- didn't feel a thing in Texas. So must have been the Bush Fault Revenge

My fav tweet of the day --jstrevino: Sorry about the earthquake, DC. That was just Rick Perry getting off his horse.

Posted by Sherry 2011-08-23 19:31|| 2011-08-23 19:31|| Front Page Top

#26 Not absolut certain about it yet, but I believe I may had been awaken from sleep by a minor tremblor here in Agana/Hagatna.

MORE > I did visually oberve a very large, late Nite = Post-Midnite, "lingering" EM Skyball in Guam's night skies oer EASTPAC, in the strategic direction of MIcronesia, Hawaiian Islands, + US West-Coast = CONUS, + despite INCLEMENT = RAINY WEATHER includ RAIN CLOUDS. The ball was seemingly very bright + oblong but also slow to disappear or dissipate, unlike the majority of others which I had also observed in Quakes prior.

EARLIER IN THE DAY, circa late afternoon 08/23rd 5-6PM Guam time, I also did observe VARIOUS STRESS MOTIONS IN MICRO/NANO-FAULT LINES AROUND THE AGANA SHOPPING CENTER + AGANA MCDONALDS.

Small Flocks of local Birds also seemingly unable to make their minds which parking lot
tree(s) to land on.

BEST WAY FOR ME TO DESCRIBE IT WOULD BE THE GROUND SUDDENLY "SLIPPING/SHEARING" LATERALLY FOR ABNORMALLY = NON-ROUTINE EXTENDED DISTANCES WHILE SIMUL ALSO SEEMINGLY "BULGING/EXPANDING" + ALSO TRYING TO "CRUSH" ONE LINE AGZ THE OTHER(S).

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-23 19:46|| 2011-08-23 19:46|| Front Page Top

#27 The Government was shut down for a short time resulting in a temporary rise in the economy.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-08-23 19:47|| 2011-08-23 19:47|| Front Page Top

#28 Just talked to my brother in California. He thinks this is hilarious.

Posted by tu3031 2011-08-23 20:16|| 2011-08-23 20:16|| Front Page Top

#29 So I had literally just finishing a mouseclick when ... boom-shaka-laka. Yeah, my work: it is earthshaking.

Posted by eLarson 2011-08-23 20:38|| 2011-08-23 20:38|| Front Page Top

#30 #28 - tu - yeah quake snobbery is in force. Seriously though, a 5.9 is an annual thing or so here. I can imagine when you haven't been in one how it'd feel.....

Posted by Frank G 2011-08-23 20:52|| 2011-08-23 20:52|| Front Page Top

#31 RENSE > [Fox News Insider] QUAKE MAY HAVE TILTED WASHINGTON MONUMENT | DC POLICE OFFICER:THERES CONCERN THAT WASHINGTON MONUMENT MAY BE TILTING FOLLOWING 5.9 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE.

IMO the 1990's future [Bill] "CLINTON TOWER/MONUMENT" = EX-WASHINGTON MONUMENT? does appear to be in a lean-to.

[GALILEO GRAVITY EXPERIMENTS here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-23 21:24|| 2011-08-23 21:24|| Front Page Top

#32 @Frank G - If my hand hadn't been touching the desk I'm not sure I'd have felt it. Shook the hell out of the suspended ceiling though. The scary part out here is: we didn't design these buildings for earthquakes.

Posted by eLarson 2011-08-23 21:28|| 2011-08-23 21:28|| Front Page Top

#33 yeah, I get that...

Posted by Frank G 2011-08-23 21:35|| 2011-08-23 21:35|| Front Page Top

#34 Overprimed the geophysical seismic shot, did ya, Halliburton:Earthquake/Tsunami Division?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-08-23 21:47|| 2011-08-23 21:47|| Front Page Top

#35 5.3 earthquake in southern Colorado as well, near Trinidad.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-08-23 22:27|| 2011-08-23 22:27|| Front Page Top

#36 Probably the worst hit was the National Cathedral. Here are some pics of the damage.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-23 22:57|| 2011-08-23 22:57|| Front Page Top

#37 next International Building Code will have minimum seismic standards for areas previously thought unaffected. Odd are 99:1

Posted by Frank G 2011-08-23 23:01|| 2011-08-23 23:01|| Front Page Top

#38 Fox News reported the Washington Monument was "leaning" which got them jumped all over. As it should.

Posted by tu3031 2011-08-23 23:06|| 2011-08-23 23:06|| Front Page Top

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