5.9 Earthquake in Virginia

[Michael Slaunwhite]

I was just watching the news, and Virginia just got hit.

Anyone here live in Virginia?

[born2see]

I heard that DC had been reduced to rubble and a massive tsunami had wiped out New York City. :ohmy:

[Michael Slaunwhite]

I'm sure you are use to it where you live? (man your bad!)

[born2see]

Michael Slaunwhite wrote:

I'm sure you are use to it where you live?

Unless a bridge falls down or a freeway collapses like in '89, it hardly makes the news.

B

[Michael Slaunwhite]

Haaaa, I do suppose.

[bedbug]

I was a 100 miles away, and it was a pretty good hit for a 5.9.
I lived in Cal. for a few years and work with a guy who grew up there and he said that was a better hit than he's ever felt even if it was a piddly little one.

[Michael Slaunwhite]

I wonder how deep it was. Anyone know?

[bedbug]

Less than 4 miles.

[born2see]

OK. I've got to tell my earthquake story.

I was living just north of Berkeley at the time and was driving home from work, getting ready to listen to the World Series (I'm a big Giants fan) and my radio quit working. I had just felt what I though was bump in the road and I had an old car so I thought 'damn radio' and put in a tape. I was on highway 80 and I could see there was a big fire in Oakland but I didn't think anything of it. So I get home and my roommate says we just had an earthquake but he said it wasn't any worse than when the washer was on 'spin'. We lived in a 100 year old frame house and it always shook. The power was out so I turned on my radio and they were going on and on about the earthquake and I thought to myself, give me a break. Then the power came on and I saw the Bay Bridge had collapsed as well as the freeway. My boss at the time was on that freeway heading north and another 1/2 a mile he would have been crushed like the others. So I never really felt it. The thing is out here the building codes are so good, damage is usually minimal. And since then they've become even more stringent. What will kill 50,000 people in other parts of the world doesn't even crack the stucco here.

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[Michael Slaunwhite]

Less than 4 miles.

Thanks bedbug. Any idea what constitutes a shallow depth for Earthqaukes? 4 Miles doesn't seem all that deep.

Check out this site, it's the Earth Quake monitoring site for the world.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

Later!