East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC • Hacker News Board

Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC

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Post by brown9-2 » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:08 PM UTC

asolove wrote: post #10

Can someone who knows something about geology comment: is it normal for semi-large earthquakes to be correlated like this? When we went to Google News, the first thing we found were other earthquakes in Colorado and off Indonesia.

look at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/ - there are hundreds of minor earthquakes across the world every day.

Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC

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Post by elliottcarlson » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:09 PM UTC

Felt near Empire State Building - lighting fixtures, desks shook.

Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC

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Post by hswolff » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:09 PM UTC

Felt it in CT. That thing was scary.

Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC

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Post by Nrsolis » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:09 PM UTC

hswolff wrote: post #13

Felt it in CT. That thing was scary.

I didn't feel it here in Fairfield.

Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC

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Post by toblender » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:09 PM UTC

Just felt it in Toronto on the 9th floor. I was the only one that actually tried to leave the building. That worries me about what people would do in bigger earthquake.

Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC

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Post by kmgroove » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:10 PM UTC

Felt it a bit up here in Ottawa Canada. Mild building shake.

Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC

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Post by dlauer » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:10 PM UTC

Felt it in Philly - the house started shaking, some stuff fell off the shelves! First Earthquake for most of us!

Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC

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Post by artmageddon » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:11 PM UTC

elliottcarlson wrote: post #12

Felt near Empire State Building - lighting fixtures, desks shook.

I'm in the MetLife building across from Grand Central Station; likewise with us. Very subtle but we could see fixtures gently swinging.

Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC

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Post by Bry789123 » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:11 PM UTC

Felt in Northern NJ. I thought it was the construction crews currently working on the building. I'm just curious, but isn't this magnitude in this area exceedingly rare?

Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC

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Post by mmx » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:11 PM UTC

I'm in Charlottesville Va, just a few miles from the epicenter, really scary stuff for a place not use to them. People were running out of buildings and it appears to have taken out a few cell towers. Hopefully no aftershocks.