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General Topics => General Chat => Topic started by: WhitePhoenix on August 23, 2011, 03:10:31 PM
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Anyone else living on the East Coast in the US feel the aftershocks from that earthquake today? Or were you in Virginia and felt the actual quake? That was crazy, I've never experienced anything like that before. Here in PA, we feel some shaking every now and then from steel mills and the land shifting because of coal mines and caverns all over the place, but never anything like that. I thought it was pretty cool.
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My bro-in-law is Navy and is at VA Beach. He said the whole hangar was shaking (he works on the planes that go on the carriers).
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There was a 5.3 quake Monday centered about 180 miles south of Denver, Colorado... Can't help but wonder if they're related.
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I hadn't heard about that one. Hmm.
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"I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky a tumbling down."
Actually I thought the vibrations came from pounding my head against the desk at work.
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"It's Gawd's punishmunt fer 'Mericka havin' all them Lib'ruls n Queers!" :rolleye:
It's coming. Wait for it. Keep your eye on Pat Robertson...
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"I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky a tumbling down."
Actually I thought the vibrations came from pounding my head against the desk at work.
"It's Gawd's punishmunt fer 'Mericka havin' all them Lib'ruls n Queers!" :rolleye:
It's coming. Wait for it. Keep your eye on Pat Robertson...
:rotflmao:
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My dad actually thought it was our dog kicking the back of his recliner until he saw the water in his fish tank trembling. XD
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They felt it in Albany, and even evacuated buildings. 6 miles north, we felt NOTHING. And we actually were affected by two. The 5.9 in Va, and a 2.2 @ 6:39 this morning about 3 miles west of Albany.....
White, your biggest problems may be in methane explosions in the old mines. I remember when I was growing up, there was one mine fire (Abandon mine) that lasted a few years. They kept an eye on it, but just let it burn. That was near Scranton
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"It's Gawd's punishmunt fer 'Mericka havin' all them Lib'ruls n Queers!" :rolleye:
It's coming. Wait for it. Keep your eye on Pat Robertson...
It adds to the entertainment value of living here, in the USA. Seriously you Brits have no real concept..... :rotflmao:
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White, your biggest problems may be in methane explosions in the old mines. I remember when I was growing up, there was one mine fire (Abandon mine) that lasted a few years. They kept an eye on it, but just let it burn. That was near Scranton
Is that Centralia? The town that's almost totally abandoned because the fires are still burning?
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Silent Hill. :D
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Silent Hill. :D
You... you like Silent Hill? :'D
A fellow fan. My day has just been made.
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White, your biggest problems may be in methane explosions in the old mines. I remember when I was growing up, there was one mine fire (Abandon mine) that lasted a few years. They kept an eye on it, but just let it burn. That was near Scranton
Is that Centralia? The town that's almost totally abandoned because the fires are still burning?
Don't recall the town's name. Have you ever been down in one of the mines? I went ONCE because both my grandfathers were Pennsylvania coal miners in their day. I wanted some idea what it might have been like for them. Keep in mind, I am claustrophobic. It was ... interesting. How my grandfathers, who were both originally around 5'10", stood being in those places boogles the mind!
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I've never been in a coal mine, no. I'd probably panic, lol.
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There was a 5.3 quake Monday centered about 180 miles south of Denver, Colorado... Can't help but wonder if they're related.
If you look at the USGS US map, they appear to be near the same Latitude. :whistle:
Oh, and they were about 12 hours apart.
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Different tectonic plates.
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There was a 5.3 quake Monday centered about 180 miles south of Denver, Colorado... Can't help but wonder if they're related.
Too far away to have any real connection. Ours goes off every so often with the last one in June of 2010.
I like my fault system. It releases the pressure as soon as it builds up instead of California's trick of grinding for decades and decades and finally violently exploding in a massive release of devastation and death.
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I like my fault system. It releases the pressure as soon as it builds up instead of California's trick of grinding for decades and decades and finally violently exploding in a massive release of devastation and death.
Different mechanism. Here in Cali we are constantly having quakes, they are just too small to notice. Pressures are constantly being released all over the state but also building in other areas. Problem is, no one really knows how they are all connected or how the stresses get transferred from one area to another.
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Here in Cali we are constantly having quakes, they are just too small to notice. Pressures are constantly being released all over the state but also building in other areas. Problem is, no one really knows how they are all connected or how the stresses get transferred from one area to another.
Another reason humans shouldn't live there! :neener:
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I'll take a little shaking over tornadoes, oppressive humidity, or hurricanes. :raspberry:
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I'll take a little shaking over tornadoes, oppressive humidity, or hurricanes. :raspberry:
:yeahthat:
and those evil little gnats like that like to commit suicide by flying into your eyeballs.
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Most people in So. Calif tend to ignore the quakes, unless they happen right under them.
Its kind of like riding a roller coaster the second or third time.
It gets your attention for a bit, then its over.
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I'll take a little shaking over tornadoes, oppressive humidity, or hurricanes. :raspberry:
:yeahthat:
and those evil little gnats like that like to commit suicide by flying into your eyeballs.
:laughfit: That happened to me when I went for a walk the other night! It made it really hard to focus on walking, that's for sure!
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Most people in So. Calif tend to ignore the quakes, unless they happen right under them.
Its kind of like riding a roller coaster the second or third time.
It gets your attention for a bit, then its over.
That is of course assuming one even noticed in the first place. ;) Anything less than a 5.0 rarely gets my serious attention. :rotflmao:
On a more serious note, I have heard that quakes in the Midwest or on the East Coast are a lot different than what we experience here. Because they don't have a lot of faults, and the faults that they do have are really old and covered with earth, smaller quakes travel farther and are more intense. Kate Hutton (for those who aren't familiar with her, she's a seismologist at CalTech) was on the news last night and mentioned that a 5+ quake on the East Coast is (if I'm remembering correctly) more like a 6+ here.
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:stars: I felt the shake. It was really funny. My mom was on the porch on the phone with a family friend. My mother felt nothing, her friend was all, "my computer is shaking... is a ghost?!"
I was in the basement and it felt like someone pulled my chair back slightly, so naturally I'm alone, I jump up. Soon as I did my head felt like a bowling ball and it felt like the air around me was moving and the stove in the apartment was making noise and the paneling behind the stove was sounding and moving like someone was pounding on it. Needless to say, I had only naturally assumed that aliens were trying to move under my skin or a ghost was mad at my stove... :whistle: That and I screamed for my mommy... My body shook... I was scared :rolleye:
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:rotflmao: you crack me up, Wolfie! Glad to see you back-- (). Computer woes better for the time being?
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:rotflmao: you crack me up, Wolfie! Glad to see you back-- (). Computer woes better for the time being?
:squeezes:
A tad.. my cousin is letting me borrow his Mac... evil... Mac.
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Computer is computer and that is a good thing. Especially if it means we get a wolfie update! :D
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Silent Hill. :D
You... you like Silent Hill? :'D
A fellow fan. My day has just been made.
And you two aren't the only SH fans on this forum.
Getting back on topic. This is why you never piss off Gaia/Mother Earth.