Earthquake in Northern Virginia

[spartanmanor]

I felt it. I thought it was an explosion

http://www.wsls.com/sls/news/state_regional/article/small_earthquake_hits_northern_virginia/10516/

[merrylander]

It didn't make it this far north.

[KeninDC]

Missed it up here in Bethesda, MD today.

I'm sure my kids felt it at school in Fairfax, VA and my dog's probably freaking out.

[spartanmanor]

I work about a mile outside of Annandale so I may be sitting right on top of the fault.

[similost]

I felt nothing here.. eh.. at least I got to ride that last big one in STL..

[stuwee]

:scratch2: these seem to be following similost around, don't they? Did anyones cart skip? That would tick me off!
Craig

[roadie1]

http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html

I didn't know they occur so often...........Spooky......R1

[similost]

:scratch2: these seem to be following similost around, don't they? Did anyones cart skip? That would tick me off!
Craig

I try and keep life rockin and rollin...

[Brent71]

There's been earthquakes all over the US lately, what's going on? We've had a real unusual swarm off the coast of Oregon, quakes in Nevada, quakes in the midwest and now quakes in Virginia.

[mhardy6647]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/

A few years living in Northern California will turn most anyone into an earthquake aficionado.

[1980'slover]

about a couple weeks back there was a small earthquake here in colorado about 50 miles away from where i live they were talking about it on the news

[jimfet]

A 1.8! That's not even a good fart.

[spartanmanor]

A 1.8! That's not even a good fart.


It wasn't much but I can tell you it was something that I have never felt in this area before. The whole floor was shaking for a few seconds.

[stuwee]

A 1.8! That's not even a good fart.

:lmao::lmao:Hey, weren't you on the can when that one in MO/IL hit:scratch2: sorry, James, I think we found the culprit:thmbsp::D
Craig

[wajobu]

I'm thinking here, with all the earthquakes and volcano eruptions lately, about the movie...Crack In The World.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065/plotsummary

[thunderroad]

:wtf:

What is going on with all these earthquakes!

Here in the Bay Area everything is quiet and stable. :nono: With everything going on around us, that might not be a good sign! It just makes me wonder if the big earthquake capacitors called the San Andreas or the Hayward Faults are storing up energy for a big discharge soon?! If those either one of those babies cuts loose, it'll be Surf City for sure, but they'll be land waves.

You AK'rs in the midwest or east better start doing a little prep to be on the safe side. Building some earthquake kits, bolting bookshelves to the wall, etc. Don't buy into the small earthqake BS, even a 3.0 or a 4.0 can do some major damage to buildings that aren't built with earthquakes in mind. Forewarned is forearmed!

We don't want anyone hurt! :no: :D

[Mark B]

There's been earthquakes all over the US lately, what's going on? We've had a real unusual swarm off the coast of Oregon, quakes in Nevada, quakes in the midwest and now quakes in Virginia.

Cthulhu....

[ByteWrangler]

I got a Master's Degree in Geophysics from Va. Tech in the '70s, with a thesis on Eastern US earthquakes. We'd record a magnitude 2 event in the VA area every few weeks; Magnitude 1 several times a day.

If a Mag. 2 happened in a heavily populated area, we'd get reports. If it was in the boondocks, usually nothing.

My daughter felt that 6 in the Bay Area last fall. She was in an Orchestra rehearsal at the time, and said they thought someone was rolling a piano across the stage at first. Once they realized what it was, everyone started laughing. After all these years, I've never felt an earthquake, and she gets a nice "starter quake" right off the bat. : (

[jimfet]

:lmao::lmao:Hey, weren't you on the can when that one in MO/IL hit:scratch2: sorry, James, I think we found the culprit:thmbsp::D
Craig


You mean my butt could be the epi-center. Run for your lives!!! My stomach is churning.

[mhardy6647]

...It just makes me wonder if the big earthquake capacitors called the San Andreas or the Hayward Faults are storing up energy for a big discharge soon?! If those either one of those babies cuts loose, it'll be Surf City for sure, but they'll be land waves...

Were you there for Loma Prieta in 1989? We were in Milpitas (actually I was on the road from Sunnyvale to Milpitas at 5:04PM when it struck). It was... interesting :-)

[1980'slover]

lets all not forget what happened to san fransisco back in 1906! huge earthquake hit it and wiped out almost all of it, plus there were hugh fires also caused by the quake

[roadie1]

And another big one in Japan.........

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90GV46G0&show_article=1

There's a whole lot of shakin' goin' on:yes:.........R1:music:

[thunderroad]

Were you there for Loma Prieta in 1989? We were in Milpitas (actually I was on the road from Sunnyvale to Milpitas at 5:04PM when it struck). It was... interesting :-)

Yep! I was there for the Loma Prieta in '89, when the double-decked Cypress Section of Hwy 17 collapsed in Oakland. As luck would have it, I was also in Palm Springs on a winter vacation during the Northridge Quake in '91(?). Hmmmmm! I wonder if it's me? :scratch2: That was quite a ride too! So I've had the E-ticket ride a couple of times.

[Sandy G]

The place I'd be terrified to live would be Memphis. Unless they have incorporated earthquake bldg codes recently, that place is a disaster waiting to happen...And who the hell knows how much is "adequate" when it comes to earthquake codes, anyway ? That freeway in California was sposed to be adequate, & yeah, it adequately collapsed...Memphis is built on more or less a coastal plain, that could very easily liquify & turn into soup...It did exactly that, about 150 miles upstream & its called Reelfoot Lake...

[Jack Lord]

The place I'd be terrified to live would be Memphis. Unless they have incorporated earthquake bldg codes recently, that place is a disaster waiting to happen...And who the hell knows how much is "adequate" when it comes to earthquake codes, anyway ? That freeway in California was sposed to be adequate, & yeah, it adequately collapsed...Memphis is built on more or less a coastal plain, that could very easily liquify & turn into soup...It did exactly that, about 150 miles upstream & its called Reelfoot Lake...


I read somewhere that the strongest quake ever in the US was actually in Memphis.

Anyway, I did not feel the Virginia quake and I slept through one in New York in the 80s though my roomates woke up.

Now, I did experience 2 within days of each other in Italy. Not big ones, but more than enough to take notice. Its an erie feeling.

[thunderroad]

The place I'd be terrified to live would be Memphis. Unless they have incorporated earthquake bldg codes recently, that place is a disaster waiting to happen...And who the hell knows how much is "adequate" when it comes to earthquake codes, anyway ? That freeway in California was sposed to be adequate, & yeah, it adequately collapsed...Memphis is built on more or less a coastal plain, that could very easily liquify & turn into soup...It did exactly that, about 150 miles upstream & its called Reelfoot Lake...

Liquifaction (sp?) is some real scary sh** too! A big section of Bay Farm Island in Alameda went into liquifaction during the Loma Prieta Quake and all the underground electric splice boxes and vaults "floated" and popped halfway out of the ground. In addition to that, all the power poles and streetlights moved around, there were some major sand boils in yards and the middle of the street, previously flat streets became hilly bumpy messes, buildings and homes built on concrete slabs developed some major problems, etc. I had never seen a sand boil before, so I walked over and looked down into one which was about 2.5 feet in diameter, and it literally dropped out of sight. I couldn't believe it! It dropped at least 10-12 feet before it curved out of sight and I never did find out how deep it was. But what really surprised me about the sand boil was that it wasn't filled with water. The water table in that area is only down about two to three feet, yet the sand boil was dry. :scratch2: Odd! I didn't actually see the liquifaction occur, but the aftermath was shocking, surprising, and interesting! Not something I'd want to experience first hand though! Unfortunately there are a lot of communities in the Bay Area that are all built on fill. Liquifaction will be a big, big problem there in the next big one!

[mhardy6647]

Liquifaction (sp?) is some real scary sh** too! A big section of Bay Farm Island in Alameda went into liquifaction during the Loma Prieta Quake and all the underground electric splice boxes and vaults "floated" and popped halfway out of the ground. In addition to that, all the power poles and streetlights moved around, there were some major sand boils in yards and the middle of the street, previously flat streets became hilly bumpy messes, buildings and homes built on concrete slabs developed some major problems, etc. I had never seen a sand boil before, so I walked over and looked down into one which was about 2.5 feet in diameter, and it literally dropped out of sight. I couldn't believe it! It dropped at least 10-12 feet before it curved out of sight and I never did find out how deep it was. But what really surprised me about the sand boil was that it wasn't filled with water. The water table in that area is only down about two to three feet, yet the sand boil was dry. :scratch2: Odd! I didn't actually see the liquifaction occur, but the aftermath was shocking, surprising, and interesting! Not something I'd want to experience first hand though! Unfortunately there are a lot of communities in the Bay Area that are all built on fill. Liquifaction will be a big, big problem there in the next big one!

Yup, that's what got the Marina district, and yup, you spelled it right.