The "New York Earthquake"?

[gtirob01]

5.9? psshhhh... we'd sleep through those in California! haha 

[alrot]

[quote]5.9? psshhhh... we'd sleep through those in California! haha

[JBaymore]

[quote]Oh man!

[H]

[quote]Yup, felt it here in southern NH.

[Club508]

I don't just have a meal with tater tots -- I have a plateful of teeter totters...[/color]

8-)

[jeffro3006]

Wow, down here near Annapolis, that was the strangest thing I've ever felt!
It was stinking weird! I was upstairs in my house and it just shook! Crazy!
Us easterners aren't very used to them...
Sure its already been pointed out, but it originated in Mineral, VA.

[ApplePie]

Some areas were completely devastated. :-/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/stunning ... east-coast

[kiwi747]

Some areas were completely devastated. :-/

Are you serious? I have and still am living through the 3 Christchurch earthquakes, those photos linked there are by no means devastation. And I know from personal experience

Devastation is when your entire city is shut for 6 months and counting, when 180 people lost their lives, 6,000 homes have to be demolished, with still more coming, half the city was surrounded in crap, when you don't bother getting off the couch for anything under a 5.3, when you can accurately guess the magnitude of the aftershocks by the noise they make before they hit, when I've spent as much time over the last year shoveling sand mixed with other peoples poo than I have doing all of my hobbies put together, and after all this, even the people of Christchurch, a city of only 300,000, still don't believe they've been devastated. 8-)

[patchz]

Some areas were completely devastated. :-/

Are you serious? I have and still am living through the 3 Christchurch earthquakes, those photos linked there are by no means devastation. And I know from personal experience

Devastation is when your entire city is shut for 6 months and counting, when 180 people lost their lives, 6,000 homes have to be demolished, with still more coming, half the city was surrounded in crap, when you don't bother getting off the couch for anything under a 5.3, when you can accurately guess the magnitude of the aftershocks by the noise they make before they hit, when I've spent as much time over the last year shoveling sand mixed with other peoples poo than I have doing all of my hobbies put together, and after all this, even the people of Christchurch, a city of only 300,000, still don't believe they've been devastated. 8-)

No, he was not being serious, just the opposite. It is very obvious from the photos that it is sarcastic humor. Earthquakes like the ones in Christchurch are not funny at all and we all feel for the victims.

But the quake today was minor and whoever posted those pictures was making light of the situation. ApplePie was just sharing it with us.

[hyperpep111]

[quote]5.9? psshhhh... we'd sleep through those in California! haha

[Club508]

yes, but there's a diffrence between the types of earthquakes that happen in the west and the ones that happen in the east.  In the west, they are much more common, and maybe stronger, but they have their area of effect and range.  But here in the east coast, the soil is much diffrent.  diffrent in the matter that it both makes the earthquake not only go for thousands of miles, but also increases the earthquake's effect and effect at long range.  And also, the qauke that happened here was at about 1/2 a mile under the surface I heard.  And not to mention that you westerners are used to them, we on the east end are by NO MEANS used to it in any way, shape, or form.

So put basically, from what I've figured is this:
West Quakes:  Often, with probably normal-minimal damage.  normal ranging.  minimal-no damage at range.

East Quakes:  Extremely rare, more damaging, extreme ranging, continued and possibly amplified effect at range.

[Romulus111VADT]

Earthquake Details
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/se082311a.php
Magnitude 5.8
Date-Time Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 17:51:04 UTC
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 01:51:04 PM at epicenter

Location 37.936

[TacitBlue]

Saw this news story this morning. The earthquake cracked the Washington Monument.

http://news.yahoo.com/once-century-earthquake-rattles-east-coast-011243899.html

[hyperpep111]

[quote]yes, but there's a diffrence between the types of earthquakes that happen in the west and the ones that happen in the east.

[hyperpep111]

Saw this news story this morning. The earthquake cracked the Washington Monument.

http://news.yahoo.com/once-century-earthquake-rattles-east-coast-011243899.html

There goes a natural monument :-/ .

2012 is just round the corner (this sentence is just a joke)