East Coast Earthquake

[Suu]

Yes, we felt it in Providence. Oarstroker and I were very much WTF as we sat in the kitchen and felt the floor rolling. Yes, rolling.

Is everyone else okay in the Northeast?

[Dimocritus]

Didn't feel a thing. But that's not out of the ordinary.

[iarmit]

Hell, I feel shaky half the time anyways, couldn't have told you

[Cainad (dec.)]

I was driving at the time. I have no idea if I felt it or not.

[Suu]

Okay, granted we were stoned, but I'm also on the 3rd floor of an old building. Seriously, my kitchen floor had the wah wah wah wahs.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Okay, granted we were stoned, but I'm also on the 3rd floor of an old building. Seriously, my kitchen floor had the wah wah wah wahs.

Yeah, that would be freaky. Glad it held together.

[Suu]

http://www2.turnto10.com/news/2011/aug/23/6/state-house-evacuated-after-va-quake-ar-701063/

Some people REALLY felt it. Structures aren't built for quakes up here, so old buildings like mine are rattletraps.

However, it was QUIET. The floor moved us in our chairs and we were watching things swaying in my kitchen. Oarstroker was like, "Wait, are we having an earthquake?!" I acknowledged that it was possible up here, and I checked the seizmic websites, but it hadn't been posted yet.  Fucking scary that a shallow 5.8 can send shockwaves that far.

[Jenne]

I have colleagues I was working with in RI that felt it, as well as folks in Washington, DC that felt it and had to log out for the day they were so freaked out.

*squints*

Yeah, 5.9 is pretty rough.

Doubly glad I'm out of those VA caverns now.

[Phox]

Is it bad that I assumed this thread was about ECH? 

[Suu]

I have colleagues I was working with in RI that felt it, as well as folks in Washington, DC that felt it and had to log out for the day they were so freaked out.

*squints*

Yeah, 5.9 is pretty rough.

Doubly glad I'm out of those VA caverns now.

a 5.9 doesn't happen much in these parts. MA gets 3s and 4s often, but almost a 6 on the East Coast is pretty rare.

[Richter]

Didn't feel a thing. But that's not out of the ordinary.

In the spirit of our times, and for the excellence of the act rather than my assessment of your character, I am inclined to inform you; that's what she said.

[PopeTom]

Rolling floor is a good description of what I felt.

Not immediately knowing I was experiencing an earth quake I had thought I was just getting kind of nauseous and dizzy.

Thankfully one of my coworkers spoke up about the building moving so I knew it wasn't just me.  Then the fire alarm went off.

[Don Coyote]

rolling floors are about par for that. glad that i havn't heard about any injuries.

granted i am tempted to lol, but i know you don't build for earthquakes out there.

[PopeTom]

Apparently East coast earthquakes also travel quite a ways father that other (US?) earthquakes.  So damage could potentially be over a much larger area if something really big were ever to hit.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I have colleagues I was working with in RI that felt it, as well as folks in Washington, DC that felt it and had to log out for the day they were so freaked out.

*squints*

Yeah, 5.9 is pretty rough.

Doubly glad I'm out of those VA caverns now.

a 5.9 doesn't happen much in these parts. MA gets 3s and 4s often, but almost a 6 on the East Coast is pretty rare.

I had an upstairs apartment in MA for awhile and sometimes felt little vibrations. Thought it was just big trucks going by until somebody told me it was earthquakes.