Felt it distinctly in Friendship Heights (Wisconsin Ave,, just across Western Ave. from DC)
East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
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Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#92Since everyone is telling HN about whether they felt the earthquake or not, I thought I might point out the feeling the earthquake is dependent on not just whether the ground shook in your area, but other factors as well. In particular, the building you were in (if any), and the furniture/objects around you. I mention this as someone who felt the earthquake in the 3rd floor of our house, while my aunt on the 2nd floo…
Yeah, everyone in my office felt the earthquake very clearly, but my coworker who was walking back from lunch barely noticed anything.
Seems like if you were moving in some way, or perhaps standing, you're less likely to realize there was a quake. Reminds me of the monkey business illusion. We're really good at ignoring information our senses feed to us.
Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#93Can 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.
Not a geologist but I'm married to one. That makes me an expert geologist at parties right?
Anyways, Indonesia would be totally unrelated, it's part of the Ring of Fire, geological activity there is expected and their big one happened on Sunday. Stuff today is just aftershocks.
Colorado and Virginia might be correlated since it's uncommon (but not unexpected) for stuff east of the Rockies to rattle about but I'd lean towards it just being a coincidence since they're 12 hours (05:46:19 UTC and 17:51:03 UTC) and ~2650 km apart.
Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#94Anyone in NYC area having trouble with ATT (moreso than normal)?
Couldn't send or receive calls for 20 min, had a client leaving me voice mails on google voice ;/
Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#95Did not feel it in Princeton, NJ.
Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#96Not to spoil the fun, but isn't this the sort of stuff that leads down the slippery slope to reddit's front page? I understand that this affects large numbers of HN users, but so do lots of things that are very far from the tech/business/coding core of this site. Besides, there are a million places to go for this info.
Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#97Did 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...
Some of our people felt it here in Warren, MI (just outside of Detroit). They were in an 8-story tower. Didn't feel anything on the first floor of my 3-story building next door.
Friends in both Grand Rapids and Holland also felt it.
Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#98Felt it in Foggy Bottom. At first I thought it was the AC or jackhammering. I'm happy I don't have to experience this often, like in California.
>I'm happy I don't have to experience this often, like in California.
Erm... We don't experience this often in California... I definitely felt the '89 quake, probably felt one in the 90s and I think I felt a quake a few years ago. So I've felt them once per decade.
Further, CA has built relatively well to account for earthquakes and doesn't have a giant off-shore shelf waiting to collapse and drown us under a tsunami[1], so we have that going for us, which is nice.
[1] http://modernsurvivalblog.com/earthquakes/earthquake-east-co...
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Re: East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC
#100Few buildings evacuated in Harrisburg, PA