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Re: 5.9 earthquake in Virginia
« Reply #30 on: August 24, 2011, 02:39:08 am »
Wow, something about earthquakes today.

Just got one here in california.

EDIT: according to news, it's a 3.9.  Bigger than the normal stuff out here tho iirc...
EDIT2:so they're downed it to 3.6..
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Re: 5.9 earthquake in Virginia
« Reply #31 on: August 24, 2011, 03:51:07 am »
Weird, lots today so far x.x
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Re: 5.9 earthquake in Virginia
« Reply #32 on: August 24, 2011, 03:52:45 am »
hmm not good
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Re: 5.9 earthquake in Virginia
« Reply #33 on: August 24, 2011, 10:18:50 am »
I didn't notice anything other than a sudden burst of IRC activity... I do live in another continent, after all. :P
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Re: 5.9 earthquake in Virginia
« Reply #34 on: August 24, 2011, 10:34:54 am »
I don't live in the states but i heard on the news that there was an earthquake
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Re: 5.9 earthquake in Virginia
« Reply #35 on: August 24, 2011, 11:28:33 am »
I felt it, sitting on my lifeguard stand in joisey
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Re: 5.9 earthquake in Virginia
« Reply #36 on: August 24, 2011, 02:19:12 pm »
It was ~30 minutes by car from where I live (the epicenter, at least). I was in Florida so I missed out on the apparent fun.

Having been in earthquakes before, it's kind of a joke to panic much about the actual earthquake -- but the fact one *happened* here where we never ever get them is a scary thought.

On a side note, this earthquake is spouting tons of memes, especially from California (the land of earthquakes):

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Re: 5.9 earthquake in Virginia
« Reply #37 on: August 24, 2011, 02:32:13 pm »
Hey Ashbad nice to see you back! And yeah people usually get scared when a 5.0 earthquake occurs where they live and it's the first time they experience this, even though some people are used to 5.9 or 6.0 earthquakes. I guess it's also the fact where we are sometimes stuff isn't build with earthquake in mind, so a smaller earthquake could easily take down buildings, unlike in California, for example.

Where I live the last earthquakes above 5.0 on Richter were in 1988 and 1997.
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Re: 5.9 earthquake in Virginia
« Reply #38 on: August 24, 2011, 02:43:41 pm »
Nice to be back :) glad I missed the quake :P apparently the people at my mom's work were crying afterwards (my mom thought the quake was actually pretty fun, since she's gone through multiple richter > 8.0 ones before)
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Re: 5.9 earthquake in Virginia
« Reply #39 on: August 24, 2011, 02:44:32 pm »
I see, I guess they probably got scared a lot X.x.
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Re: 5.9 earthquake in Virginia
« Reply #40 on: August 24, 2011, 03:18:27 pm »
Francisco just had a 4.1 this morning, and has been having little ones the past few weeks.

I didn't feel it at all cause I'm in Alberta, so I'm too far away.
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Re: 5.9 earthquake in Virginia
« Reply #41 on: August 24, 2011, 04:19:52 pm »
Quote from: Darl181 on August 24, 2011, 02:39:08 am
Wow, something about earthquakes today.

Just got one here in california.

EDIT: according to news, it's a 3.9.  Bigger than the normal stuff out here tho iirc...
EDIT2:so they're downed it to 3.6..

I was just about to post about that!  I felt that last night.  Apparently, they even stopped BART because of it too.
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Re: 5.9 earthquake in Virginia
« Reply #42 on: August 24, 2011, 05:33:26 pm »
Still remember that 2007 Halloween 5.6 earthquake.

Yeah mid-4.0 earthquakes are pretty fun.
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