Posted on 07/16/2010 2:26:23 AM PDT by markomalley
Earthquake Details
* This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 3.7 (Preliminary magnitude — update expected within 15 minutes) Date-Time
* Friday, July 16, 2010 at 09:04:49 UTC * Friday, July 16, 2010 at 05:04:49 AM at epicenter
Location 39.145°N, 77.222°W Depth 20 km (12.4 miles) set by location program Region POTOMAC-SHENANDOAH REGION Distances
* 1 km (1 miles) NNE (15°) from Gaithersburg, MD * 4 km (2 miles) W (279°) from Washington Grove, MD * 4 km (3 miles) SW (216°) from Montgomery Village, MD * 5 km (3 miles) SE (137°) from Germantown, MD * 31 km (19 miles) NNW (342°) from Arlington, VA * 31 km (20 miles) NW (325°) from Washington, DC
Location Uncertainty Error estimate not available Parameters NST=014, Nph=014, Dmin=105.3 km, Rmss=0.73 sec, Gp=130°, M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=0 Source
* West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center/NOAA/NWS
Event ID at00927108
magnitude was downgraded to 3.6
It looks like it’s normally a very quiet area, seismically.
That was interesting.... Felt it a ways west of DC.
It’s baffling when you aren’t used to them.... Does not compute! =D
woke us up in Clarksburg. Felt like an explosion.
Founding Fathers rolling in their grave.
Drat, couldn’t feel it at the bus stop in Front Royal. Had to experience it via email from someone further east.
Amen. Or, earth preparing to split open and swallow him up.
Bush will be blamed. Obama will take credit for no damage.
Building shook a little in Virginia. I thought, “This couldn’t be an earthquake; they don’t have them here.”
Thank goodness,here come the Haitian relief workers!
Not!
Being a mile NNE of Gaithersburg puts it around Montgomery Airpark.
Here in Olney we heard it. For about 5 seconds or more it sounded like a truck going over rumble strips without the depressed sections.
[Mr] T
Daggone! That’s near my office!
I’ve only felt one earthquake, and it was very minor, but it took me by surprise because we usually don’t get them. All of a sudden, I heard this sound which sounded like a low rumble of thunder, but unlike thunder, it was longer. Then, everything began to vibrate for maybe 30 seconds or so. The epicenter was nearly a state and a half away. I was a little unsure about what happened until they said on the morning news that it was an earthquake.
LOL!
Thanks. Mrs. Valentine and I felt it in Silver Spring and wondered what the? Now we know.
/
Did anyone survive?
I’m in N.E. Columbia. Woke me up too. I lived in California for 14 years, so I know an earthquake when I feel one.
Rapid, small side-to-side movement, like a heavy vibration.
Seemed to last 5 to 10 seconds.
Traffic on 66 eastbound. Looks like all zombies, so I would say no.
Founding Fathers rolling in their graves after the nonsense coming this week from the NAACP against the tea party movement.
That was not a fun way to wake up this morning. I prefer alarm clocks.
ping
The demons is lookin’ for da bam to take him back where he belong. Da demonhood.
Keep an eye on the New Madrid.
God is trying to get their attention.
Shake it, shake it Sugaree.......
Felt the bed move, thought it was the Mrs. Then again, maybe it was!
That came a bit early; wait until you see the DC earthquake in November.
I felt it here in Loudoun, across the Potomac. I was half asleep when our building shook gently and something in my room fell to the floor. This is the second earthquake I’ve experienced—the first was a mag 4.5 in 2003 during my first year in Charlottesville.
Thanks for the update. It sounded like thunder at first or even a large rocket lifting off. Felt like a frieght train. I actually thought it came from the sky.
Heard something that sounded like a big truck going by, near Greenbelt. I live near the Beltway so it might have really been a truck, but it struck me as odd at the time.
Hey congress...you sure you wanna fund abortion???
I remember a small rumble thing back in...I guess it was the late 80’s, early 90’s. I lived in Glen Burnie at the time. I was married to a cop at the time. It happened in the early evening. He was walking across the floor and stopped when the earth shook. “Did you feel that?” he said and I, indeed, had.
It was scary though hardly any big deal. The next day all the local media was in a bit of a riot mood.
There was even some sort of rumble here in the swamps of Delaware little over a year ago. It was small but my toilet wobbled and the water within sloshed all about.
Though many locals felt SOMETHING making the earth kind of move, it was never proven to be any kind of earthquake thing.
I don’t live far from Dover Air Base and you should see some of the gigantic things flying into that place. Best we could figure it was some kind of sonic boom.
AKA Bush Fault.
Several years ago there was a 4.9 quake centered south of Chattanooga which was felt in metro Atlanta. It was 5 am and my husband had just pulled out of the driveway.
I heard the attic rafters shake. The shaking noise moved from the attic to the basement in that order, but I did not feel anything. 8 miles away, it knocked my nephew out of bed. He felt it, LOL!
I had never experienced one before. I called my husband on the phone and told him I thought there had just been an earthquake. In that loving way only a husband can do, he told me I was crazy. I love it when I can say I told you so.
LOL!
sadly true
What was that quip obama made about “No armageddon”?
Wait until you get one well into the 7’s ;-)
Ghosts of the first American Revolution......
A month ago, there was a good sized quake in southern Ontario that was felt in our locale. I was at the stove cooking and did not feel it, but my daughter, on her bed upstairs, did. She called down and asked if we had had an earthquake. I hadn't felt it but immediately went to the 'Quake Sheet" link at Drudge and nothing was posted, so I told her "No". However, the local news at the top of the hour was buzzing with quake news!
I also missed feeling one centered in central Illinois about 2.5 years ago. I slept through it. The same daughter was dropping a friend of at the airport and missed it too. Her suite-mate, slightly panicked, called her while she was on the road as it had rocked their 90 year old dorm at U of M pretty well.
Such diverse places...
Just mother earth way of saying get these progressives off of me before the kill me.
Maybe God’s giving the pols a warning shot down there.....
Woke me up in Lake Ridge, VA (about 20 down I-95 from DC)...I had a really strange dream, then thought that my daughter was kicking the chest at the end of our bed into the bed, which she does do occasionally...only problem was, she wasn’t there, or even awake. I remember hearing a noise, but I couldn’t place it. Hubby is off today, so he was still sleeping, but I later woke him up and asked if he slept well...while still mostly sleeping, he said the train was really loud. LOL We lived near train tracks at Fort Hood...18 months ago, I guess that’s what his brain used to cope.
The dogs didn’t go crazy barking. They may have whined, I would have slept through that. The cat was not around when I woke up, but later she woke me up, and had her tail poofed out, walking in that stiff-legged hyper-alert way. She’s still spooked. Poor kitty. Our older Golden Retriever was all worked up with the tail and ear action, and running the perimeter of the yard when I first let him out. The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy acted like nothing had happened.
“Founding Fathers rolling in their grave.”
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