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 allston » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:20 PM UTC

jsavimbi wrote: post #2

Shook us up nice in Boston as well.

None of the people in my ground-floor office in Allston (a neighborhood in Boston) felt any tremors. However, my girlfriend's office in the Cambridgeport neighborhood of Cambridge shook, and was evacuated for about 20-30 minutes.

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

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Post by KrisJordan » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:20 PM UTC

masnick wrote: post #39

Felt it in Durham, NC. I'm on the 4th (top) floor of a building and it shook noticeably but gently for about 10 seconds, with maybe a minute total of less-pronounced sharking.

Felt in Carrboro, NC, too.

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

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Post by melvinng » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:20 PM UTC

Nothing in Toronto.

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

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Post by brooksbp » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:20 PM UTC

Sodaware wrote: post #32

Felt it in Raleigh, North Carolina. Quite strong, and made the whole house shake for quite a while. Figured it was some workers digging outside the apartment. Apparently not.

+1 in Raleigh

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

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Post by kylec » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:20 PM UTC

It was very light, but I did feel it here in Portland, Maine (fourth floor)

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

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Post by reemrevnivek » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:20 PM UTC

Did not feel it in Michigan.

But seriously, all these reports should be going to this site:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/c0005i...

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

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Post by melvinng » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:21 PM UTC

melvinng wrote: post #43

Nothing in Toronto.

Nvm, there was something in Toronto.

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

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Post by mikeryan » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:21 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.

I'm not a geology expert by any means, but I've lived in SF my whole life.

Generally any quake comes with a corresponding set of tremors based on the initial quake. These tend to be along the same or related fault lines. The Colorado quake could be related. Indonesia probably not as much.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:21 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.

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

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Post by jswinghammer » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 6:22 PM UTC

jsavimbi wrote: post #2

Shook us up nice in Boston as well.

I thought I was sick until all my coworkers started complaining.