North Eastern Border (USA) Earthquake - 5.8 Magnitude!!!

[Igora]

Here in northern VA my dogs got so freaked out they refused food handed to them! :O

 

[kvaele]

Felt it in New Jersey.

My friend thought i was kicking his bed and then a book fell off his shelf and his little brother was like" stop jumping on the bed!"

I got yelled at for both shaking my moms chair and pushing my dad's phone off of the table. My dad was in his room, and my mom was in the living room, which are on different floors.

 

[EnterPseudonym]

I think that video shows us that structures on the Eastern part of the United States aren't really made in mind for earthquakes, not the ferocity of the quake. Those cars getting smashed was more an act of gravity, methinks

However, out here on the West coast I get the feeling people don't think much of < 6.0 earthquakes (or maybe that's just the people I know, since my knowledge is not representative of the whole West coast). Actually, most of the West coast (or the West coast of all the Americas) lies on fault lines. From my knowledge, not all of the energy released from an earthquake can efficiently travel between different tectonic plates, but since you guys are out on the expanse of the North American plate, the waves released should travel much more efficiently, therefore, farther. So I guess it makes sense people from numerous different states felt it.

It's the limestone bedrock. Helps those waves travel nicely.

 

[cookieyo145]

Oh yeah i was watching the news and there was some guy about to throw a rock at the police officer who was being filmed but his wife or something pushed him. Also, Obama was probably thinking "i already got bin laden!"