Holy crap.. who felt that??

[jbeckva]

5.8 earthquake.. in VIRGINIA...

The buildin' was a shakin... pretty cool! (I can say that now because I'm still alive heheh)

 

[speakerman1]

We had it also. I was in the garage watching the loaders move. I have had them in Cali. They usually rumbled. This didn't make a sound. LOL

Lattu

 

[orange]

Been a long time since you rocked and rolled?

 

[Fairchild]

They are usually silent here in Illinois also.

Maybe after having the sh-t shaken out of them the loaders will work. LOL

Jim

 

[speakerman1]

I wish. I thought I was having vertigo. LOL

Larry

PS No I wasn't smoking anything at the time. LOL

 

[stuwee]

I was just getting ready to log on here, saw the news flash, and my power was goning on and off rapidly, not just me but a big chunk of Tucson, probably from the power surges from the grid out east the power co here said. Very weird, it's the end of the world guys.

 

[Fairchild]

I wish. I thought I was having vertigo. LOL

Larry

PS No I wasn't smoking anything at the time. LOL

Well don't make a habit of that, be smoking something next time!

Jim

 

[speakerman1]

Stuwee VA pulled 2 nuke reactors off line because of it.

Larry

 

[stuwee]

I lived in St. Louis in the 60's and 70's, we had several shakers there, one knocked down a rock wall on my dads Tempest, later in bible school a jar fell on my head. I HATE earthquakes, we don't get them here in AZ....now watch a giant hole swallow me up tomorrow

The New Madrid fault in southern MO will cause the most widespread damage when it let's go, but I'd fear the Pacific Northwest more, it's been dormant waaaaay to long, lot's of tension built up there, that one will be nasty!!

My first thought this morning was Jerry didn't take his Gas-X and Beano tablets after that fried food binge

 

[Web Police]

I thought maybe Kraftwerk or Spongle was being cranked on the 700B.

 

[Fairchild]

Ah, Rolf and Florian. Radioactivity!

Jim

 

[ksrigg]

I didn't feel it here in Southwest Virginia, although many people said they did. I know there is a fault running through the Appalachian Mountains, but didn't know there were geographic faults near DC....I know there is a lot of fault in the logic used there....in the House and the Big White House.....maybe the Big Guy is saying something?

 

[orange]

You weren't listening to AC/DC on all those hoarded sets at once were you?

Maybe your entire house was built on a vibration reducing foundation.

There was an earhquake near Challis, Idaho about 1981. I'm a few hundred miles away from there but my bed hopped/twisted a smidge (we confirmed the timing on the morning news).

Sadly two Challis children were killed when a wall fell down. Idaho is not as geologically active as California and until Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 almost as quiet as Oregon and Washington. No region is ever free of seismic astivity nor will it til Earth stops spinning.

Some are saying the hotspot around Yellowstone has been retreating slowly/going away as I understood.

Still, tremors are not standard fare in the eastern US. I saw video of a comference and the speaker was from the Seattle or California area and was heard to tell a couple panicky, pushy folks something like, "Keep calm, I've been through this many times where I'm from".

The two reactors were made to shut down automatically. They were before the Japanese disaster and they were back on line later that day. They ran on backup batteries for a short while although that doesn't say how they could hold up vs. the inferior Japanese backup system.

Tsunamis aren't a big threat in Virginia, are they?

 

[speakerman1]

No Tsunamis; but the hurricane coming may give us a few drops of rain. LOL

Larry

 

[Fairchild]

Not for me, darn storms are forming right overhead, someone else will get the rain. Just thunder to drive my do nutsier.

Jim

 

[laatsch55]

Big fault thru DC ": Bush's Fault"!!!!