Simviation Forum - The "New York Earthquake"?

Reply #15 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 4:26pm

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5.9? psshhhh... we'd sleep through those in California! haha Cheesy

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Reply #16 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 4:37pm

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gtirob01 wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 4:26pm:

5.9? psshhhh... we'd sleep through those in California! haha Cheesy

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Reply #17 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 5:03pm

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Club508 wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 2:40pm:

Oh man! apparently the qauke was even felt in parts of new england!
http://news.yahoo.com/quake-rocks-washington-area-felt-east-coast-181550612.html

Yup, felt it here in southern NH. Just a tiny vibration though.

Friends in an office building in Burlington, Vermont said that the place sustained some cracked molding there!!!!! Swinging lights, papers and stuff falling, and stuff like that.

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Reply #18 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 5:59pm

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JBaymore wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 5:03pm:

Yup, felt it here in southern NH. Just a tiny vibration though.

I may have felt the quake here in central NH not knowing it was the quake. I'm not far from the lake and probably the edge of the big rock slab I'm on is under the roadway; every time a heavy vehicle goes by this place is really shaken. I don't just have a meal with tater tots -- I have a plateful of teeter totters...

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Reply #19 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 6:16pm

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H wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 5:59pm:

[quote author=JBaymore link=1314123804/17#17 date=1314133435] I don't just have a meal with tater tots -- I have a plateful of teeter totters...[/color]

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Reply #20 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 6:29pm

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Wow, down here near Annapolis, that was the strangest thing I've ever felt! Cheesy

It was stinking weird! I was upstairs in my house and it just shook! Crazy!
Us easterners aren't very used to them...
Sure its already been pointed out, but it originated in Mineral, VA.

Its only the landing phase in a plane crash that hurts...

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Reply #21 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 10:47pm

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Some areas were completely devastated. Undecided

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/stunning-photos-of-damage-caused-by-the-east-coas...

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Reply #22 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 11:24pm

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ApplePie wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 10:47pm:

Some areas were completely devastated. Undecided

Are you serious? Embarrassed

I have and still am living through the 3 Christchurch earthquakes, those photos linked there are by no means devastation. And I know from personal experience Cry

Devastation is when your entire city is shut for 6 months and counting, when 180 people lost their lives, 6,000 homes have to be demolished, with still more coming, half the city was surrounded in crap, when you don't bother getting off the couch for anything under a 5.3, when you can accurately guess the magnitude of the aftershocks by the noise they make before they hit, when I've spent as much time over the last year shoveling sand mixed with other peoples poo than I have doing all of my hobbies put together, and after all this, even the people of Christchurch, a city of only 300,000, still don't believe they've been devastated. Cool

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Reply #23 - Aug 24^th, 2011 at 12:58am

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kiwi747 wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 11:24pm:

ApplePie wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 10:47pm:

Some areas were completely devastated. Undecided

Are you serious? Embarrassed

I have and still am living through the 3 Christchurch earthquakes, those photos linked there are by no means devastation. And I know from personal experience Cry

Devastation is when your entire city is shut for 6 months and counting, when 180 people lost their lives, 6,000 homes have to be demolished, with still more coming, half the city was surrounded in crap, when you don't bother getting off the couch for anything under a 5.3, when you can accurately guess the magnitude of the aftershocks by the noise they make before they hit, when I've spent as much time over the last year shoveling sand mixed with other peoples poo than I have doing all of my hobbies put together, and after all this, even the people of Christchurch, a city of only 300,000, still don't believe they've been devastated. Cool

No, he was not being serious, just the opposite. It is very obvious from the photos that it is sarcastic humor. Earthquakes like the ones in Christchurch are not funny at all and we all feel for the victims.

But the quake today was minor and whoever posted those pictures was making light of the situation. ApplePie was just sharing it with us.

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Reply #24 - Aug 24^th, 2011 at 3:14pm

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gtirob01 wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 4:26pm:

5.9? psshhhh... we'd sleep through those in California! haha Cheesy

Here we had tremors a few years ago and the country shook like a leaf. Sad

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Reply #25 - Aug 24^th, 2011 at 3:48pm

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yes, but there's a diffrence between the types of earthquakes that happen in the west and the ones that happen in the east. In the west, they are much more common, and maybe stronger, but they have their area of effect and range. But here in the east coast, the soil is much diffrent. diffrent in the matter that it both makes the earthquake not only go for thousands of miles, but also increases the earthquake's effect and effect at long range. And also, the qauke that happened here was at about 1/2 a mile under the surface I heard. And not to mention that you westerners are used to them, we on the east end are by NO MEANS used to it in any way, shape, or form. Tongue

So put basically, from what I've figured is this:
West Quakes: Often, with probably normal-minimal damage. normal ranging. minimal-no damage at range.

East Quakes: Extremely rare, more damaging, extreme ranging, continued and possibly amplified effect at range.

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Reply #26 - Aug 24^th, 2011 at 3:52pm

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Earthquake Details
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/se082311a.php
Magnitude 5.8
Date-Time Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 17:51:04 UTC
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 01:51:04 PM at epicenter

Location 37.936°N, 77.933°W
Depth 6 km (3.7 miles)
Region VIRGINIA
Distances
8 km (5 miles) SSW (195°) from Mineral, VA
11 km (7 miles) SSE (148°) from Louisa, VA
29 km (18 miles) NE (45°) from Columbia, VA
35 km (22 miles) E (87°) from Lake Monticello, VA
61 km (38 miles) NW (317°) from Richmond, VA
135 km (84 miles) SW (217°) from Washington, DC

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 2.3 km (1.4 miles); depth +/- 3.1 km (1.9 miles

Despite it's small size in comparison to California quakes, it effected 22 states on the east coast due to the tectonic plate being one large solid plate as opposed to a plate that has multiple fractures.

If anyone is interested as of today; here's the list of after shocks-

3.4 2011/08/24 04:45:26 37.925 -77.994 4.9 11 km ( 7 mi) S of Louisa, VA

4.2 2011/08/24 00:04:36 37.912 -77.951 7.9 11 km ( 7 mi) SSW of Mineral, VA

2.2 2011/08/23 19:20:26 37.911 -78.004 0.1 13 km ( 8 mi) S of Louisa, VA

2.8 2011/08/23 18:46:50 37.931 -77.935 0.1 9 km ( 5 mi) SSW of Mineral, VA

Beginning quake-

5.8 2011/08/23 17:51:04

37.936 -77.933 6.0 8 km ( 5 mi) SSW of Mineral, VA

Now we get to deal with a hurricane.... Roll Eyes

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Reply #27 - Aug 24^th, 2011 at 5:29pm

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Saw this news story this morning. The earthquake cracked the Washington Monument.

http://news.yahoo.com/once-century-earthquake-rattles-east-coast-011243899.html

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Reply #28 - Aug 24^th, 2011 at 5:37pm

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Club508 wrote on Aug 24^th, 2011 at 3:48pm:

yes, but there's a diffrence between the types of earthquakes that happen in the west and the ones that happen in the east. In the west, they are much more common, and maybe stronger, but they have their area of effect and range. But here in the east coast, the soil is much diffrent. diffrent in the matter that it both makes the earthquake not only go for thousands of miles, but also increases the earthquake's effect and effect at long range. And also, the qauke that happened here was at about 1/2 a mile under the surface I heard. And not to mention that you westerners are used to them, we on the east end are by NO MEANS used to it in any way, shape, or form. Tongue

So put basically, from what I've figured is this:
West Quakes: Often, with probably normal-minimal damage. normal ranging. minimal-no damage at range.

East Quakes: Extremely rare, more damaging, extreme ranging, continued and possibly amplified effect at range.

Do you mean me?

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Reply #29 - Aug 24^th, 2011 at 5:39pm

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TacitBlue wrote on Aug 24^th, 2011 at 5:29pm:

Saw this news story this morning. The earthquake cracked the Washington Monument.

http://news.yahoo.com/once-century-earthquake-rattles-east-coast-011243899.html

There goes a natural monument Undecided

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