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Quake in VA
« on: August 23, 2011, 02:22:20 PM »
Magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits U.S. state of Virginia, tremors felt in Washington, D.C. and New York.
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Re: Quake in VA
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2011, 02:31:25 PM »
From the USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usc0005ild.php#details

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Magnitude   5.9
Date-Time   

    Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 17:51:03 UTC
    Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 01:51:03 PM at epicenter

Location   37.975°N, 77.969°W
Depth   1 km (~0.6 mile) (poorly constrained)
Region   VIRGINIA
Distances   45 km (27 miles) E of Charlottesville, Virginia
55 km (34 miles) SW of Fredericksburg, Virginia
64 km (39 miles) NW of RICHMOND, Virginia
82 km (50 miles) NNE of Farmville, Virginia
Location Uncertainty   horizontal +/- 10.9 km (6.8 miles); depth +/- 7.4 km (4.6 miles)
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Re: Quake in VA
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2011, 02:51:45 PM »
    I was on the lawnmower and didn't feel a thing.  Dang!

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Re: Quake in VA
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2011, 03:23:57 PM »
That was something different that's for sure. Sitting at home on the computer when it happened. Twitter was flying with all the news.


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Re: Quake in VA
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2011, 04:52:10 PM »
Felt it here in Virginia
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Re: Quake in VA
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2011, 06:41:22 PM »
I was walking around outside and didn't feel a thing.

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Re: Quake in VA
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2011, 08:26:03 PM »
Having spent  a bunch of time in that area, it did not strike me as a quake zone.  Weird
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Re: Quake in VA
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2011, 10:19:20 PM »
Don't know why any one surpise seening how there many ancient faults in that area and other area s. Just that they are not very active On thing I see they did wrong is  running outside where falling debris  could land on them.





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Re: Quake in VA
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2011, 01:08:06 AM »
Don't know why any one surpise seening how there many ancient faults in that area and other area s. Just that they are not very active On thing I see they did wrong is  running outside where falling debris  could land on them.
     The people I saw outside in NY on FOX News they said were asked to go outside while the buildings were inspected for damage.  Who knows?  A Capitol Police officer also said the Washington Monument was tilting!   #-o

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Re: Quake in VA
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2011, 11:17:12 AM »
Very interesting for reading:  http://bit.ly/peih7b
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Re: Quake in VA
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2011, 03:02:41 PM »
I work in a place called Tyson's corners in Northern Virginia.  The quake was felt hard here.  I'm in a 4 story concrete frame building and it really shook.  Fortunately there was only minor damage - some displaced ceiling tile and some minor cracking of sprayed on stucco like coating in one of the stairways.  However, there were a few low rise masonry buildings that had quite a bit of damage.  In Manassas where I live, we experienced very little.  I didn't even have anything fall off the shelves.  In Culpepper VA, a lot of older brick structures suffered significant damage.  I am experiencing some problems with my weather station at Massanutten VA.  I still have power but one PC is off line and the other does not seem to be transmitting to my web site or Weather Underground.  They went off line about the time of one of the after shocks.  I'll get them back on line (hopefully) on Friday.  From what I can tell it is not a serious problem.  Hopefully just a power glitch.
 

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Re: Quake in VA
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2011, 03:54:02 PM »
Good thing this happened.  The news was getting a little slow and they needed a new story.

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Very interested in the follow up on the Washington Monument. Closed indefinitely and suffered damage
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Re: Quake in VA
« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2011, 05:09:12 AM »
Another aftershock this morning of 4.2 in Mineral, VA. This is something very different for this area. More reports of damage coming in from the 5.8 earthquake in the city of Richmond.


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