EARTHQUAKE!!! Washington, D.C.

[Moonliner]

Geeze, from the "Breaking news bulletins" around here you'd think it was the big one. I'm amazed they did not trigger the emergency broadcast system the way people are freaking out.

And I'm VERY embarrassed to say it was a 1.8 Magnitude quake (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1399162). :blush:

Doh! I hang my head in shame for living out here.....

[Morrigoon]

Bwahahahah..... ya had me for a minute there. 1.8? What, a truck ran over the road nearest the sensor?

[Snowflake]

Truck? That's me walking by the sensor!

[Gn2Dlnd]

1.8? That's not even worth dragging out ol' Nelson Muntz to ha-ha you. I half-heartedly ha-ha you myself.

Ha-ha.

[Alex]

The San Francisco Bay Area local news seems to feel it necessary to report on anything bout 2.0 (though not always with much excitement) so I'm not surprised.

[Moonliner]

I'm giving serious thought about going over to cafepress.com and making up T-shirts that read:

I Survived the great
2008 DC EARTHQUAKE
Magnitude 1.8000

[Morrigoon]

LOL

You need to add " (Now stop laughing) " in tiny print at the bottom.

[Not Afraid]

1.8 is Charles jumping off the couch.

[BarTopDancer]

1.8 is Springer jumping out of a box already on the floor.

[Kevy Baby]

Geeze, from the "Breaking news bulletins" around here you'd think it was the big one. I'm amazed they did not trigger the emergency broadcast system the way people are freaking out.

And I'm VERY embarrassed to say it was a 1.8 Magnitude quake (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1399162). :blush:

Doh! I hang my head in shame for living out here.....1.8 is not an earthquake.

My condolences.

[Capt Jack]

would a 1.8 even cause a ripple in a cup of coffee?

I mean, ok...its where I suppose there arent a lot of shakers, but a 1.8, unless someone actually told you about it...would you even know?

[Mousey Girl]

would a 1.8 even cause a ripple in a cup of coffee?

I mean, ok...its where I suppose there arent a lot of shakers, but a 1.8, unless someone actually told you about it...would you even know?

I don't know... I felt a 4.4 that happened in Lake Isabella about a week ago. (LI is 40-50 miles from here).

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I honestly don't think I've ever felt anything below a 2.5. Even then, it's "was that an earthquake, or did I just stand up too fast?"

[Tom]

Were there any deaths or injuries? What do the damage estimates look like?

[Kevy Baby]

I don't know... I felt a 4.4 that happened in Lake Isabella about a week ago. (LI is 40-50 miles from here).BIG difference between a 1.8 and a 4.4.
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To give you an idea on this, according to the USGS web site (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/33.35.-119.-117_eqs.php) (US Geological Survey), there have been SEVEN "earthquakes" with a magnitude of 1.8 or greater since 4/30 (as far back as the listing goes) in the greater Metropolitan Los Angeles area.
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The epicenter was about 1 mile west-southwest of Annandale, VA and 13 miles west-south-west of Washington, DC. The USGS has received no reports of damage at this time.

The most recent earthquake recorded in the Northern Virginia area was a magnitude 2.5 earthquake near Manassas, Va., on Sept. 29, 1997.

On Feb. 23, 2005, there was a similar type event in the Baltimore metropolitan area, as a 2.1 magnitude earthquake was felt strongly and widely. There was a series of seismic events in March and April 1993, in Columbia, Maryland, ranging from 0.5 to 2.5 in magnitude.Source (http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1930&from=rss_home)

[innerSpaceman]

I think a lot of people don't reallize that a 4.4 is magnitudes stronger than a 1.8, not merly 2.2 clicks stronger.


And frankly, with 22,000* dead (and climbing) from a cyclone in Burma, it's kind of obscene for there to be Breaking News about a 1.8 earthquake in D.C.






* those are real zeros, not Moonliner zeros.

[wendybeth]

I suppose George is hiding in the underground bunker right about now.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Anything below 3 is generally not felt. Maybe if you're in a high-rise or something.

The scale is a factor of 10 every time it goes up- logarithmic scale? Something like that. But a 3 is ten times stronger than a 2. I think. It's been a while since I looked it up.

[Gn2Dlnd]

^ correct.

[Kevy Baby]

^ funny looking

[Gn2Dlnd]

Nyah.

[Capt Jack]

Now THATS a quake (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/07/japan.quake.ap/index.html)

[Kevy Baby]

There we go: that's what I'm talking about.

1.8? Sheesh